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• The administration’s legal KSM misstep

  
  Token Conservative — Authority: 136
  Word has come from the Obama administration  that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other Islamic terrorists will be tried in federal court in New York. Predictably, the ACLU and many other left-liberal individuals and organizations have applauded the decision, while many conservatives have denounced it. I see the ...
  14 hours ago

• The FISA Amendments: Behind the Scenes

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 740
  I’ve been poring over the trove of documents the Electronic Frontier Foundation has obtained detailing the long process by which the FISA Amendments Act—which substantially expanded executive power to conduct sweeping surveillance with little oversight—was hammered out between Hill staffers and lawyers at the ...
  21 hours ago

• Coopers Wilson: The Wilson Center Book Launch

  
  Legal History Blog — Authority: 436
  The United States Studies Program of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars announces a book launch for Woodrow Wilson: A Biography, with the author, John Milton Cooper, Jr., History, University of Wisconsin and the commentators David S. Patterson, the former Chief Editor of the Foreign Relations of the ...
  4 days ago

• Afghanistan Is About More Than The War

  
  Corrente — Authority: 622
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post
  1 week ago

• Further Empowering the Most Powerful Man on the Planet

  
  The Blanks Slate — Authority: 419
  Over at the League of Ordinary Gentlemen, Jamelle has an idea to "address long term challenges" through "meaningful legislation": fundamentally change the structure of Congress so that its "more responsive." To wit: Accountability is nice, but absent further institutional reform, it still leaves you with that ...
  1 week ago

• The Real Story Behind the Chrysler Bankruptcy

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 740
  If you worry about the abuse of executive power and declining respect among elected officials for the rule of law, you should watch this eloquent illumination of what really went down in the Chrysler bankruptcy earlier this year. The speaker is Richard Mourdock, Treasurer of the state of Indiana. The setting is a ...
  2 weeks ago

• Power-One Names New Board Member

  
  socalTECH.com - Southern California High Tech News — Authority: 561
  Camarillo-based Power-One , a manufacturer of power supplies and related products, said Friday afternoon that it has appointed Kambiz Hooshmand to its board of directors. Hooshmand was most recently President and CEO of AppliedMicro. He has also served at Cisco Systems and StrataCom. Power-One said that Hooshmand ...
  3 weeks ago

• Ninth Circuit grants stay in EFF case seeking telecom lobbying documents

  
  PogoWasRight.org — Authority: 148
  Marcia Hofmann of EFF writes: Today the Ninth Circuit postponed a court-ordered deadline for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Department of Justice to turn over documents concerning a legislative push to give telecom carriers legal immunity for their participation in the government’s ...
  3 weeks ago

• Wednesday Links

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 740
  Senate Judiciary Committee abandons hope of bringing any real change to the Patriot Act. Julian Sanchez in The Nation : “The Obama administration makes vague, reassuring noises about constraining executive power and protecting civil liberties, but then merrily adopts whatever appalling policy George W. Bush put ...
  3 weeks ago

• Rhetoric v. reality in the Obama White House

  
  David Kirkpatrick — Authority: 143
  Cato and Reason ’s Julian Sanchez has a great piece on the disconnect between what the Obama administration does, and what it says, in restoring balance to D.C. and ridding our government of some of the Bush administration’s overreach and blatant disregard for civil liberties and personal freedom. To be fair ...
  3 weeks ago

• Cases to watch in 2009: Kiyemba v. Obama

  
  Token Conservative — Authority: 136
  This is the case that hasn’t happened, the judicial dog that hasn’t barked. It involves the fate of (at last count) up to 13 Uighurs held at Guantanamo Bay. They were captured and turned over to American forces after fleeing from a terrorist training camp in Afghanistan’s Tora Bora Mountains to Pakistan. ...
  3 weeks ago

• Liberal Politics May Be Messy, But It Beats the Alternative

  
  Corrente — Authority: 622
  No Associated Press content was harmed in the writing of this post I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat. - Will Rogers
  4 weeks ago

• Breaking News: Morgan Tsvangirai Pulls Out Of Zimbabwe Cabinet But Not Government

  
  Denford Magora's Latest Zimbabwe News Blog — Authority: 139
  Morgan Tsvangirai speaks to the press a few moments ago at Harvest House, where announced that the MDC is pulling out of Cabinet but stated categorially that "we are not pulling out of government." He insists that he is only pulling out of the Executive and will not attend cabinet nor will he convene the Council of ...
  4 weeks ago

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