Unqualified Offerings

I’m sure you’ve heard by now that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has, in a terrifying bit of hair-splitting, said that Americans have no explicit right to habeas corpus: the Constitution doesn’t grant us the right to habeas corpus, says he, but merely says such a right can’t be suspended.
Forget for a moment the obvious question of [...]

By Mona
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Well, well, well. Our Glorious Leader believes the founding values of this nation mandate respect for the life and dignity of every human being. For today, he issued a presidential proclamation entitled National Sanctity of Human Life Day 2007, which reads as follows, my emphasis:
A Proclamation by the President of the United States [...]

Hillary Clinton will lose the popular vote to (insert Republican name here) but win the electoral vote to become President.
Why do I predict this? Because when it comes to Presidential candidates who are close relatives of former Presidents, American history is remarkably consistent:
1) John Q. Adams, scion of a New England political family [...]

By Mona
[I had issues with embedding the Balkin link, so am merely providing urls.]
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Law prof Jack Balkin is, as are many of us, sheerly appalled at Gonzales’ testimony this week before the Senate Judiciary Committee during its hearings on oversight of the Department of Justice. The right of habeas corpus — to not [...]

After decades of Activist Baathists trying to defy the long-standing Shia definition of marriage, Iraqis are once more engaging in temporary marriages:
Fatima Ali was a 24-year-old divorcee with no high school diploma and no job. Shawket al-Rubae was a 34-year-old Shiite sheik with a pregnant wife who, he said, could not have sex with him.
Ali [...]

Downblog, Sean rehearses a familiar hawkish trope:
If you have a sense of war as extraordinary, you are probably a very sheltered American civilian. Violent death is kind of normal in most of the world.
This echoes a comment the other day by  Sebastien Holdsclaw, who plays “reasonable conservative” on Obsidian Wings:
Peace is not the natural state [...]