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How the Roberts-led Supreme Court is setting the stage for bureaucrats to shape American culture from the top down. By Garrett Epps | ||||
With his poll numbers sinking, Giuliani is blaming Bill Clinton for doing nothing about Islamic terrorists. But what did the former mayor do? By Joe Conason | ||||
I take the "flight of a lifetime" on an F-4 Phantom fighter jet and am scared witless. But I'd do it again just to experience six G's. By Patrick Smith | ||||
If the British people really do want less spin and more substance from their prime minister, then Gordon Brown could be the man to deliver it. By James Geary | ||||
This delicious tale of a rat who cooks is pure joy, a grand achievement -- one of the most beautiful animated pictures ever made. By Stephanie Zacharek | ||||
He high-fives everyone! He says, "Are we having fun yet?" He talks in a fake Jamaican accent! By Cary Tennis | ||||
Do you have what you want? Do you want what you have? Members of Salon's community, Table Talk, tell us what they covet this week. | ||||
The Blazers passed on Jordan for a center in '84. Big mistake. But even if Kevin Durant is another Jordan, they should take the center, Greg Oden. | ||||
Your guide to the political blogosphere – left, right and everywhere. | ||||
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Friday, June 29, 2007
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Thursday, June 28, 2007
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As the U.S. takes sides in Iraq's splintering civil war, a top Republican warns Bush's policy will fail. By Juan Cole | ||||
A lifelong member of the Hemlock Society, my 87-year-old grandmother is frail, housebound, nearly blind -- and ready to die. Why won't anyone let her? By Karen Houppert | ||||
My girlfriend is going to Berkeley; should I take a dream job in Toronto? By Cary Tennis | ||||
Hey, what's with the overstuffed Oscar fodder in June? Redgrave, Streep, Close and a glowing Claire Danes in "Evening," some classic Belmondo, and more. By Andrew O'Hehir | ||||
Oh no, it's King George. Ruben Bolling | ||||
Congress gets an earful about the NFL's shabby treatment of disabled ex-players. Plus: A new college rating system in time for the NBA draft. | ||||
| Diana's birthday One of the things that makes me nuts in interviews for my book tour is the question: "Is Paris Hilton the Princess Diana of today?" Tina Brown | ||||
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Wednesday, June 27, 2007
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"America's mayor" stays resolute on terrorism and the war -- but don't even ask him about the A-word. By Alex Koppelman | ||||
In Trinidad, Salon meets longtime Muslim agitator Yasin Abu Bakr, who is allegedly linked to the plot to blow up JFK airport. By Tristram Korten | ||||
The CIA tested rejected commercial drugs on animals and U.S. soldiers. | ||||
Biographer Meryle Secrest shares her secrets: Don't fall in love with Stephen Sondheim, and watch out for Salvador Dali's hit men. By Rachel Aviv | ||||
Ahh, summer, a time to reboot ... Keith Knight | ||||
Would I have stayed with him if I hadn't gotten ill? By Cary Tennis | ||||
Age catches up to Bruce Willis' everyman hero, and it makes him all the more appealing. By Stephanie Zacharek | ||||
When politics gets mean and dumb, you can cheer yourself up by walking into a public library. By Garrison Keillor | ||||
Deranged fans, enraged protesters and garden-variety rubbernecks converge for one big release. By Stephen Elliott | ||||
The best damn sports show national TV is ignoring: Minor league baseball. | ||||
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Tuesday, June 26, 2007
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Salon.com | News Wires
Court Rules in Favor of Enemy Combatant
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By ZINIE CHEN SAMPSON Associated Press Writer
June 11,2007 | RICHMOND, Va. --
The Bush administration cannot legally detain a U.S. resident it suspects of being an al-Qaida sleeper agent without charging him, a divided federal appeals court ruled Monday.
"To sanction such presidential authority to order the military to seize and indefinitely detain civilians, even if the President calls them 'enemy combatants,' would have disastrous consequences for the constitution -- and the country," the court panel said.
In the 2-1 decision, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel found that the federal Military Commissions Act doesn't strip Ali al-Marri, a legal U.S. resident, of his constitutional rights to challenge his accusers in court.
It ruled the government must allow al-Marri to be released from military detention.
He is currently the only U.S. resident held as an enemy combatant within the U.S.
Jose Padilla, another U.S. citizen, was held as an enemy combatant in a Navy brig for 3 1/2 years before he was hastily added to an existing case in Miami in November 2005, a few days before a U.S. Supreme Court deadline for Bush administration briefs on the question of the president's powers to continue holding him in military prison without charge.
Al-Marri has been held in solitary confinement in the Navy brig in Charleston, S.C., since June 2003. The Qatar native has been detained since his December 2001 arrest at his home in Peoria, Ill., where he moved with his wife and five children a day before the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks to study for a master's degree at Bradley University.
Al-Marri's lawyers argued that the Military Commissions Act, passed last fall to establish military trials after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling, doesn't repeal the writ of habeas corpus -- defendants' traditional right to challenge their detention.
Salon.com | News Wires
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Thursday, May 31, 2007
TuniBlogs - Les blogs de la Tunisie - Provides and aggregates Tunisian blogs
TuniBlogs - Les blogs de la Tunisie - Provides and aggregates Tunisian blogs: "National"
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Wednesday, May 30, 2007
arabic tunisnews/commentaires ouverts.
arabic tunisnews/commentaires ouverts.: "القاعدة وصلت لبنان
عبد الباري عطوان
تعيش منطقة الشرق الاوسط حالة من الفوضي والتدهور الامني لم يسبق لها مثيل، ابتداء من افغانستان ومرورا بالعراق وانتهاء بلبنان، الامر الذي ينبيء بموجة من اعمال العنف قد تشمل مختلف الدول الاخري التي ظلت محصنة وشبه آمنة، مثل مصر والاردن وسورية والمملكة العربية السعودية.
واذا كان الانفلات الامني في العراق والا"
Posted by Toblogistobe at 7:59 AM |
arabic tunisnews/commentaires ouverts.
arabic tunisnews/commentaires ouverts.: "الغيرة الوطنية ليست كسرا للعظام وانما تصحيح للمسارات
ya reat kool atwansa yektboo bismhom wa bintimaathom
مرسل الكسيبي (*)
أحيي في الأخ الفاضل والكريم د.خالد الطراولي غيرته على المشروع الوطني والوسطي والاسلامي وأنوه الى جمالية تحرك النخبة الاسلامية التونسية هذه الأيام للتفاعل الراقي في حوارات ذكرتني في حيويتها وكثافتها بحقبة المطارحات على جريدة الرأي التونسية فترة الثمانينات من القرن الماض�"
Posted by Toblogistobe at 7:54 AM |
Wednesday, May 16, 2007
Wednesday, March 07, 2007
A Corrupt Endeavor- by Justin Raimondo
A Corrupt Endeavor- by Justin Raimondo: "A Corrupt Endeavor
Who lied us into war? Libby trial verdict points the way for future probes
by Justin Raimondo
If you want to know why and how the vice president's chief of staff came to be convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice and now faces up to 20 or so years in jail and a hefty fine, then let's go back to the winter of 2005, when prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald announced Scooter Libby's indictment and took questions from the media. Asked why he wasn't indicting under the terms of the Espionage Act, which makes it a crime to give classified information to persons not entitled to receive it, Fitzgerald explained by giving his famous baseball analogy:
'Let's say a pitcher winds up and hurls a fastball at a batter's head, you have to ask, why did the pitcher do it? Was it an accident? Did he do it out of a grudge or did his fingers slip? Did he hit the target or did he aim for the chin and miss? You'd have to look beyond the field, find out what happened in the dugout, see if it might have been retaliation (did the batter trash-talk the pitcher's mama?), or at the end of the day was it just a bad pitch, get over it?'
The problem, said Fitzgerald, is that sand had been thrown in the umpire's eyes. That's what Scooter Libby did when he lied to a grand jury and to the"
Posted by Toblogistobe at 8:00 PM |
Thursday, December 07, 2006
I could not post it here earlier
http://iraqdisaster.blogspot.com/2006/12/reuters-alertnet-only-six-fluent-in.html
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