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Too much stuff attracting my attention as I get caught up on reading and web site visits. That leads to this brain dump-type of entry. I don’t know about you but there’s just something about conspiracy theories that kind of flips my trigger. I think that’s true for a lot of people. I understand that […] It isn’t like Rush or David Brooks admitting it, but Thomas Friedman is catching on. In his column Thursday, Friedman says Iraq is suffering on the altar of politics. Admitting he was wrong thinking the Bushies really were interested in Iraq, Friedman says, “There is something even more important to the Bush crowd than […] That is the substance of a question raised by a reader a week or so ago and that’s been percolating in my mind since. An article in today’s Denver Post (via Atrios) provides a good opportunity to address it. Headlined Bishop draws line for voters, it says: The bishop of Colorado’s second-largest Roman Catholic diocese […] Is That Legal? has some interesting observations on whether the abuse stories emerging in Iraq means the Justice Department lied to the Supreme Court. Edward Lazarus makes a similar but broader point in a FindLaw column that also touches somewhat on the topic of my last post. Although the Supreme Court is supposed to be immune from outside influences and pressure, the timing of the controversy surrounding the treatment of Iraqi prisoners could not have come at a better time for the lawyers challenging the Guantanamo detentions and the detention of US citizens as enemy combatants. As respects Guantanamo, concerns of abuse […] |
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