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The Obama Administration is clearly developing a taste for executing American citizens in an extrajudicial fashion and hardly a peep is coming out of the mainstream media. Abdulrahman al-Awlaki the son of Anwar al-Awlaki, himself executed by drone on September 30th, was killed in a drone strike in Yemen on October 14th, reportedly while having [...]
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When I was still teaching, I caught a student plagiarizing a paper. It wasn’t just a matter of improper attribution, either–she had copied and pasted whole paragraphs from Wikipedia, apparently unaware that I knew how to use Google. The next day, her mother called the school and discussed the problem with me. “My children don’t cheat,” [...]
Jacob Sullum’s invaluable feature story in the latest issue of Reason details the many ways that President Obama has failed to live up to the high hopes drug law reformers pinned on him back in 2008, when hope was still fashionable. I found this part particularly stomach-turning: More generally, Obama has repeatedly expressed the view that many people in [...]
I share Dan’s revulsion at crowd’s ghoulish reaction to Rick Perry’s record of executions at Wednesday’s debate, but what I find most interesting is the way Perry elided Williams’ question: WILLIAMS: Have you struggled to sleep at night with the idea that any one of those might have been innocent? PERRY: No, sir. I’ve never struggled with [...]
Has progressive activism reached a new low? A George Washington University law professor is threatening to sue Catholic University over its recent decision to return to single-sex dorms. The professor, John Banzhaf, claims that Catholic’s decision is in violation of a D.C. anti-discrimination law that prohibits discrimination based upon sex. GW prof John Banzhaf argues [...]
I was traveling last week and missed this Radley Balko article, in which he argues that the president should not order the Solicitor General to defend laws he believes to be unconstitutional before the Supreme Court, as President Obama recently chose to do with the Defense of Marriage Act: The usual response to criticism of [...]
Jack Hunter’s commentary today calls attention to this scene from the Elena Kagan confirmation hearings, in which Sen. Tom Coburn asks the supreme-to-be whether Uncle Sam can compel Americans to eat their greens: I wonder what another Oklahoman, the populist conservative Willmoore Kendall, would have made of this. On the surface there is no paradox [...]
Federal Judge Vaughn Walker is truly a visionary. Peering at the 14th Amendment, Walker found something there the authors of the amendment never knew they put there, and even the Warren Court never found there: The states of the Union must recognize same-sex marriages as equal to traditional marriage. With his discovery, Walker declared Proposition [...]
While the rest of Washington—and the country—wonders if Elena Kagan would work for good or for evil as a Supreme Court justice, The Washington Post’s Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Robin Givhan has other things on her mind. Whether Kagan leans left or right in her judicial demeanor is for court observers to debate. But in matters [...]
“A chorus of black commentators and civic leaders has begun expressing frustration over (Elena) Kagan’s hiring record as Harvard dean. From 2003 to 2009, 29 faculty members were hired: 28 were white and one was Asian American.” CNN pundit Roland Martin slammed “Kagan’s record on diversity as one that a ‘white Republican U.S. president’ would [...]
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