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• Senator Lindsay Graham schools Attorney General Holder on the treatment of terrorists

  
  Token Conservative — Authority: 137
  Senator Lindsay Graham of South Carolina is not on my list of favorite Republicans. His record, on the whole, portrays a distinct lack of principles and of a thought-through intellectual framework. Politicians are politicians, and one cannot expect ideological purity. Nor is ideological purity necessarily good, when ...
  4 days ago

• Skowronek on the Unitary Executive

  
  Legal History Blog — Authority: 481
  I have been listening to a podcast of a presentation by Stephen Skowronek (Yale Political and Social Science) at the Miller Center for Public Affairs of his brilliant intervention into the Unitary Executive literature, "The Conservative Insurgency and Presidential Power: A Developmental Perspective on the Unitary ...
  5 days ago

• The political dimensions of the KSM transfer

  
  Token Conservative — Authority: 137
  If the trials of the 1993 World Trade Center bombers and of the “20th 9/11 hijacker,” Zacarias Moussaoui are any indication, the federal court trial wii be a propaganda circus for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his co-defendants, abetted by what likely will be ideologically sympathetic lawyers. While at ...
  1 week ago

• The administration’s legal KSM misstep

  
  Token Conservative — Authority: 137
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• The FISA Amendments: Behind the Scenes

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 744
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• Coopers Wilson: The Wilson Center Book Launch

  
  Legal History Blog — Authority: 481
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Afghanistan Is About More Than The War

  
  Corrente — Authority: 623
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  2 weeks ago

• Further Empowering the Most Powerful Man on the Planet

  
  The Blanks Slate — Authority: 463
  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 ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Real Story Behind the Chrysler Bankruptcy

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 744
  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 ...
  4 weeks ago

• Power-One Names New Board Member

  
  socalTECH.com - Southern California High Tech News — Authority: 491
  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 ...
  4 weeks ago

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