The Debate Link

Two international legal scholars at Opinio Juris , Avi Bell (Bar Ilan University) and Kevin Jon Heller (Georgia) discuss an attempt by som...

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who is pushing hard to gain a seat on the Security Council, has accused Israel of "doing the same th...

One Paleo-Con offers an easy way to discern the true meaning of any neo-conservative proposal : Just append "by killing people" to...

CBS has confirmed that the next season of Survivor will feature racially segregated tribes (H/T: Orly Lobel ). They're claiming that it...

Have you ever seen a big post get swallowed up by blogger, and gotten too depressed to write another? I have.

I know I've posted these excerpts before, but they're worth mentioning again. "No person shall be held to answer for a capital...

Senator Jim Inhofe (R-OK) is no stranger to bizarre pronouncements. You may remember his commentary on Abu Gharib--he was the Senator who wa...

Hitler on Gandhi, and Gandhi on Hitler : Hitler advised the British to kill Gandhi. (Wikipedia claims that Viscount Halifax in 1937 'was...

A Washington Post article reveals what the GOP is really thinking on the topic of illegal immigration. First, Rep. Charlie Norwood (R-GA) o...

Well, I'm back from California. As the lack of posting indicates, I had a wonderful time. I even managed to get through airport security...

Tommorow night starts a 5-day vacation to the West Coast. I'm visiting a friend, and swinging by a law school, in one fell swoop. More p...

The appalling retaliation case I summarized here --where an employee was fired for complaining when a co-worker said of two arrested black f...

Joshua Sharf (via David Kopel ) notes the new "diversity" in the anti-war/Israel movement out in Denver. As was reported in the D...

Kevin Drum and Josh Marshall remark on the growing radicalization of people who, in years past, would likely characterize themselves as mo...

Feddie at Southern Appeal has gone paranoid. In a way, I'm tempted not to blame him: the way the Washington Times phrases it ("Ga...

Let's give an...appropriate reception to the newest member of the international blogosphere, Mahmood Ahmadinejad --aka, the genocidal ma...

For those of you who had bets down on which book I'd finish first , the moment you've all been waiting for has arrived. Between The ...

Kevin Andre Elliot tags me for a book meme. I've never been tagged before. Gosh, this is exciting. So, without further delay... 1. One ...

University of Missouri International Law scholar Peggy McGuinness has the latest episode in the farce that has become the UN Human Rights C...

Via Andrew Sullivan , we hear of a West Point cadet who wrote an essay arguing for the abandonment of the military's exclusionary anti-g...