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• Professor: Say, Let’s Pardon a Domestic Terrorist

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 463
  CUNY Graduate Center professor David S. Reynolds has an idea. He wants to pardon an American criminal that is a known murderer and fanatic and who led a life that was steadily radicalized by an extreme religious ideology. This domestic terrorist even went so far as to attempt to start a war inside the USA and ...
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• Obama as Scrooge: no Christmas clemency grants

  
  Sentencing Law and Policy — Authority: 575
  As I complained in posts here and here and here  around Thanksgiving, it was sad and telling that President Barack Obamas first use of his historic clemency power was to continue the modern (silly?) tradition of pardoning a turkey.  At that time, however, I was hoping that Prez Obama might be saving up ...
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• Obama to Pardon Pee-Wee Herman in Exchange for Giant Foil Ball

  
  Gerbil News Network — Authority: 134
  WASHINGTON, D.C.  White House sources say the Obama administration is close to a deal that would grant a Christmas Eve pardon to Pee-wee Herman in exchange for Herman’s 8-foot high aluminum foil ball, which would become part of the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Institution. “Listen, ...
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• Clemency in the Rick Perry era

  
  Grits for Breakfast — Authority: 539
  Digging around this morning in the Board of Pardons and Paroles recent annual reports , I compiled this table regarding recent gubernatorial clemency decisions. These data reflect the number of full pardons considered by the board and the number approved by Governor Rick Perry: In my own mind, I probably hadnt ...
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• Copenhagen climate conference’s giant globe: A sign of things to come?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  An enormous white globe dangled in Copenhagen’s Bella Centre, the location of the world’s largest ever leaders’ summit on climate change, could be an unintended yet chilling sign of things to come. An observant attendee made it clear by scribbling on the giant model of the earth that its designers forgot to ...
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• "Haley Barbours Bizarre Pardon Record"

  
  Sentencing Law and Policy — Authority: 575
  The title of this post is the headline of this potent new piece by Radley Balko at Slate .  Here is how the piece begins: Mike Huckabee took a beating from his conservative brethren last month after Maurice Clemmons, a man whose sentence the former Arkansas governor commuted in 2000, shot and killed four police ...
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• Sarkozy’s tough message on climate – did it get through?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  After one and a half days of mostly uninspired and often irrelevant speeches by world leaders, French President Nicolas Sarkozy walked to the podium at UN climate talks in Copenhagen and produced a seven minute rallying cry - focused, energetic and packed with more punch than the rest put together. Jabbing his ...
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• The strange spectacle of too many heads of government

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  There are around 120 heads of government at the Copenhagen climate talks, so many that it’s hard to keep track of the exact number. Their presence has been trumpeted as a sign of the world’s commitment to tackling climate change. But in return for showing up, they all want a chance to address the conference – ...
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• Auxiliary verbs at 10pm and the scarcest resource – sleep

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  The issues are global and urgent, but the bureaucracy can sometimes be mind-bogglingly slow and petty. After a day of stalled talks, the 193 nations at UN-led climate talks finally met for a plenary to discuss one of the main drafts floating around the summit, just two days (and two hours) from the deadline for a ...
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• NYT > World: Pakistan Strikes Down Amnesty for Politicians

  
  A Couple Things — Authority: 472
  This is a syndicated post. Original article from NYT > World , available at NYT > World . The court ruling effectively restored corruption cases against thousands of politicians, including the president.
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• Reduced prison sentence in Florida reveals that clemency is not completely dead

  
  Sentencing Law and Policy — Authority: 575
  Especially in the wake of all the bad press that the concept of clemency has received after the horrible crimes of Maurice Clemens, I am pleased to see this notable new clemency story out of Florida.  Here are the details: Today, Jennifer Martin will be free. Martin was sentenced to 16 years behind bars after ...
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• Can you trust the science?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  Today we pose the question to our virtual panel of experts, “How far can we trust the science of climate change?” Join the debate and leave your comments below. Bjorn Lomborg , statistician and author of “The Skeptical Environmentalist”: The vast majority of climate scientists tell us that increases ...
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• Roiling Politics, Pakistan Court Strikes Down Amnesty

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 900
  Pakistan’s Supreme Court struck down a controversial amnesty, effectively restoring cases against thousands of Pakistan’s politicians, including the president.
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• Rainy Taiwan faces awkward water shortage

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
   Chronically rainy Taiwan faces a rare water shortage as leaders ask that people on the dense, consumption-happy island of 23 million finally start changing habits as dry weather is forecast into early 2010.  Taiwan, a west Pacific island covered with rainforests and topical fruit orchards, is used to rain in ...
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• Are the Copenhagen climate talks failing?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  In the last few days it has seemed like the only thing everyone can agree on in Copenhagen is that time is running out. The heads of state start arriving today and descend in full force on Thursday. Negotiators say they don’t want their leaders arguing over the placement of a comma or a set of brackets, and so ...
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• Change must start from grassroots, Schwarzenegger tells COP15

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  The COP15 conference on climate change will be a success even if no deal comes out of it, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said on Tuesday in Copenhagen. “It depends on what your definition of a deal is,” Schwarzenegger told the media. “The important thing is to move the agenda forward.” The ...
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• A fitting and overdue call for "conservatives to take ownership of prison reform"

  
  Sentencing Law and Policy — Authority: 575
  This op-ed by Ross Douthat in todays New York Times , which is titled "Prisons of Our Own Making," is the best and most-important piece of post-Clemmons commentary I have seen in the weeks since Mike Huckabee has been pilloried for granting clemecny to a prisoner who, a decade later, went on a horrific murder ...
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• What can ordinary people do to slow climate change?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  Today’s expert panel discusses the question, “What can ordinary people do to slow climate change?” Join the discussion and let us know what you think. ************** Gidon Eshel , physics professor at Bard College: What can ordinary people do to slow climate change? A lot. Which is extremely important ...
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• Climate skeptic: We are winning the science battle

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  - Dr. Fred Singer is the President of The Science & Environmental Policy Project and Professor Emeritus of environmental science at the University of Virginia. The views expressed are his own - The International Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) charter states that the organization’s purpose is to look for ...
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• Coke says green strategy will win business

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  Having an integrated clean technology strategy will be a big part of winning business in the 21st century, a Coca-Cola executive told Reuters.com on Monday, and its investments in refrigeration will likely have the biggest impact on that strategy long-term. The worlds biggest soft drinks maker has hooked up with ...
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