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The killer of Dr. George Tiller is subject to the death penalty under federal law, both for killing to prevent the delivery of reproductive health services and for killing in a church. Let’s not go there.
Archive for May, 2009
May 31st, 2009
Category: Terrorism and its control
The killer of George Tiller was affiliated with both Operation Rescue and the tax-protest movement.
May 31st, 2009
Category: Terrorism and its control
… be sure to use lots of soap and hot water when you try to wash the blood off your hands.
May 31st, 2009
Category: Terrorism and its control
George Tiller, a doctor who was a long-time target of anti-abortion groups, was murdered today in a Kansas church.
May 31st, 2009
Although carbon offsets have been much maligned, they are a useful complement to policies that penalize carbon emissions.
May 31st, 2009
Category: Terrorism and its control
Jack Goldsmith, widely viewed as a hero for opposing the Cheney/Addington regime of legal error, offers wise but ultimately irresponsible counsel on detainees in today’s Washington Post.
May 31st, 2009
Category: Terrorism and its control
Panic is not a defense for trammeling the constitution, attacking political opponents as unpatriotic, or self-defeating policies–especially if the panic resulted from willfully ignoring warnings.
May 30th, 2009
Category: Watching Conservatives
Let’s give the country a long, slow look at the Republican trainwreck.
May 30th, 2009
Category: Defense and national security
Buried in this story is a paragraph that made me blink: The CIA recently reported that a small fraction of its overall workforce — about 13 percent — is fluent in a second language. Among officers of the agency’s National Clandestine Service, to which most foreign-deployed officers are assigned, the figure is about 30 percent. [...]
May 30th, 2009
Category: Language and usage, Politics and Leadership
Brad DeLong raps my knuckles for being cavalier about the sentence talking heads have been endlessly parsing from Sotomayor’s Berkeley speech. Here’s the full paragraph: Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences, a possibility I abhor less or discount less than my colleague Judge Cedarbaum, our gender and national origins may and [...]