Archive for May, 2009

Blunting the Backlash

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

Limbaugh is nothing if not canny: Calling Sotomayor a “racist” and a “hack” on his radio show Tuesday, Limbaugh took particular issue with a 2001 speech at Berkeley during which she stated a “wise Latina woman with the richness of her experience would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male […]

Prolonged Warfare

Monday, May 25th, 2009

When you engage in actual fighting, if victory is long in coming, then men’s weapons will grow dull and their ardor will be damped. If you lay siege to a town, you will exhaust your strength. Again, if the campaign is protracted, the resources of the State will not be equal to the strain. Now, […]

Preventive Detention

Saturday, May 23rd, 2009

I gotta start paying attention to these sorts of things again. If Greenwald is portraying this accurately, it’s absolutely chilling: It’s important to be clear about what “preventive detention” authorizes. It does not merely allow the U.S. Government to imprison people alleged to have committed Terrorist acts yet who are unable to be convicted in […]