Sometimes I am appalled at the roadblocks that courts set up in the way of justice. Ironic, isn't it?The NY Times has the story today of Troy A. Davis, a 38-year-old man who has been on Georgia's death row for 17 years. Mr. Davis was...
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I wrote last night about what I thought was the most glaring irony of the Libby commutation. I should have thought, when Scott brought Karla Faye Tucker into the discussion,.
Janet Jackson had her Rhythm Nation. We have our Prison Nation.The numbers are in, and it turns out that the U.S. prison population grew more in 2005-2006 than in any.
I tried to go into today's NY Times op-ed column "Why Pro-Choice is a Bad Choice for Democrats" with an open mind. I really did. But it's going to take a better column than this one to convince me that Democrats should soften their stance...
Genarlow Wilson, a promising high school sports star who was also a whiz in the classroom, was sentenced to ten years for having consensual oral sex with a fifteen year.
I was a little worried when I saw the headline in today's NY Times article: Revolving Door for Addicts Adds to Medicaid Cost. Often when I write about my opposition.
There's been a lot of press recently about wrongly convicted men who have been exonerated by DNA evidence. No doubt, the work of the Innocence Project and other organizations that work to overturn wrongful convictions is commendable, and necessary. But what about other people who...
Really -- it's like the Times was determined to out-stupid the block quotes from Scott's post yesterday about Frank Rich. In an utterly substance-free piece, Mark Leibovich and Patrick Healy.
Look -- it's not like Times Select is the equivalent of a Lexis-Nexis account, so I don't exactly see the story here. The New York Times decided earlier this week.
In addition to an article on the Iranian IEDs on Friday, and an article on the aluminum tubes in 2002, Michael Gordon co-wrote Cobra II, which condemened the administration's war conduct and use of intelligence in harsh terms. Thus, it's simply not true that Michael...