Rule of Law

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• DEEPER AND DEEPER INTO THE INFERNO

  
  A Tangled Web — Authority: 540
  Terrorists, murderers and rapists are to have their say on how Maghaberry Prison is run, the Belfast Telegraph reveals.  From tomorrow representatives nominated by the province’s paramilitary and criminal fraternities are scheduled to sit down with senior prison officers and outline how they think the ...
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• A day of human wrongs.

  
  *SUSAN LOONE's Blog* — Authority: 420
  New Premier, Old Pledges, Pervasive Culture of Impunity:By SUARAM.In conjunction with the International Human Rights Day 2009, Suara Rakyat Malaysia (SUARAM) releases its Overview of Malaysia’s Human Rights Report for the year.Detention without Trial ContinuesSUARAM notes that despite the new Prime Minister Najib ...
  16 hours ago

• Kadeer: Addressing Xinjiang Issue Serves Stability

  
  Justrecently's Weblog — Authority: 114
  Rebiya Kadeer, chairwoman of the World Uyghur Congress (WUC), is currently in Austria.Die Presse, Vienna, Austria, published an interview with Rebiya Kadeer yesterday. The following are excerpts from the interview (own translation).Q: Early in July 2009, heavy riots broke out between Han Chinese and Muslim Uyghurs. ...
  17 hours ago

• The Individual Mandate in Obamacare is Unconstitutional

  
  The Foundry — Authority: 748
  Today, The Heritage Foundation will host an event with Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) discussing the constitutionality of the personal mandate to buy heath insurance. Also, Heritage will be releasing a paper authored by Randy Barnett, Nathan Stewart and Todd Gaziano arguing that this mandate is both unprecedented and ...
  18 hours ago

• The Graying of America’s Prisons

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 458
  "The tough on crime posturing and policymaking that have dominated American politics for more than three decades have left behind a grim legacy. Longer sentences and harsher parole standards have led to overcrowded prisons, overtaxed state budgets, and devastated families and communities. Now, yet another consequence ...
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• International Anti-Corruption Day 2009: An Hour of Silence to Reflect and Reboot

  
  The Kaufmann Governance Post — Authority: 107
  As Wednesday, December 9th dawns, there is a dim reminder that one is supposed to ‘celebrate’ International Anti-Corruption.   ‘Dim reminder’ to ‘celebrate’ in quotation marks indeed, because unfortunately anti-corruption continues to be largely in the back-burner for most world powers, for most ...
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• When Police Become Killers

  
  Human Rights — Authority: 118
  A new story today by the BBC details the growing problem of police violence in Nigeria.  The morgue at the Nigeria University Teaching Hospital overflows with bodies brought in by police, often unnamed but reported to be suspected criminals, such as armed robbers or thieves.  In some cases, that may be the case ...
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• ACORN Report Finds No Illegal Conduct

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 458
  ACORN employees caught in those undercover videos advising a couple posing as a pimp and a prostitute on how to break the law acted unprofessionally and inappropriately, but did nothing illegal, an independent report has found. ... In the wake of the scandal, Congress voted to cut off all federal funds from ACORN. In ...
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• Martial Law konfrontasi

  
  Manuel L. Quezon III: The Daily Dose — Authority: 503
  Together with Edgardo Angara and his former martial law nemesis, Juan Ponce Enrile (who, however, dangles a face-saving proposal for Congress to reduce the time frame of the proclamation to less than 60 days), Joker Arroyo among his senate peers , is foursquare behind the President’s imposition of martial law. The ...
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• Charter 08 Seminar held in Shandong Province

  
  Justrecently's Weblog — Authority: 114
  Liu Xiaobo (刘晓波) was detained on suspicion of “inciting subversion of state power” on December 8 a year ago. Hours later, Charter 08, a document that Liu helped to draft, was released online. Liu’s formal arrest followed about half a year after his actual arrest. Under The Jacaranda writes that Sun ...
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• New European Commission ─ Official proposal

  
  Grahnlaw — Authority: 478
  Even if news travel instantly in the wired world, more or less accurately, we should not discount the importance of official records. Just as there are national official gazettes (under different names), the European Union works under the rule of law, making laws and decisions based on the powers in the treaties, ...
  2 days ago

• Land of my fathers: Why I am Indian

  
  Independent Indian: Work & Life of Dr Subroto Roy — Authority: 125
  From Facebook: Subroto Roy  says to Mr Tripathi: “An oath is an oath. For myself, my love for America, where I lived some 16 years, age 25-41, was enough for me to wish to become an American — if I did not have to abandon the land of my fathers which needed me perhaps more.”
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• Freedom and the Rule of Law

  
  tomgpalmer.com — Authority: 471
  
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• ACORN Employees Stupid but Not Criminals

  
  The Impolitic — Authority: 433
  They conducted an investigation into the ACORN employees that were caught up in Breitbarts little video sting operation. Former Massachusetts Attorney General Scott Harshbarger, who held the office when I lived there and was a friend of one of the attorneys at my old law firm, reviewed the tapes. He found no ...
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• A Visual Aid For Democrats Having Trouble Understanding How Silly They Sound

  
  Taxes, Stupidity, and Death — Authority: 118
  You keep making the silly allegation, Dems. We’ll keep telling you that your race card is maxed out. H/t to Nice Deb
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• Cover Up: Death At Gitmos Camp Delta

  
  Newshoggers.com — Authority: 635
  By Steve Hynd On June 10, 2006 three detainees at Gitmos Camp Delta were found hanged in their cells. The governments own autopies showed theyd been hanging there for at least two hours, in cells under suposedly constant surveilance by video cameras and guards. Now, Seton Hall Law has a new report on the deaths at ...
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• Morning Bell: The Copenhagen Climate Comedy

  
  The Foundry — Authority: 748
  Imagine an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting where all the members showed up drunk and with extra cases of wine, beer, and booze to keep them happy. Now imagine that that same group of drunks was empowered to make trillions of dollars worth of economic decisions for everybody in the world. This absurd scenario swiftly ...
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• Economic Growth, Part III: When All Else Fails, Try Freedom

  
  Big Government — Authority: 818
  We’ve learned that Keynesianism does not make sense and that Obama’s so-called stimulus was misguided. In the final installment of this three-part series, let’s discuss the policies that actually would improve economic performance. As this video explains , both Economic Freedom of the World and the ...
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• Charter 08 Signatories Called for the Release of Liu Xiaobo

  
  Under the Jacaranda Tree — Authority: 455
  A year ago, on 8 December 2008, Liu Xiaobo was detained on suspicion of inciting subversion of State power.  Hours later, Charter 08, a document that Liu helped to draft, was released online.  Charter 08, signed initially by 303 prominent Chinese citizens, calls for 19 changes to improve human rights situation in ...
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• What the Minaret Ban Says About Europe

  
  Human Rights — Authority: 118
  Last Sunday, Swiss voters opted to legally ban the construction of any new minarets in the country.  Since then, the topic has been debated online and in the media, with plenty of analysis by people on both sides of the ban on what the minaret ban is really about , or what minarets are really about.  Despite the ...
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