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To right-wingers who say that the Arizona immigration law is necessary to protect “respect for the rule of law,” there is a simple two word answer: John Yoo.
Archive for the ‘Civil liberty’ Category
May 13th, 2010
October 31st, 2009
Category: Civil liberty, Crime Control
Sheriff Joe Arpaio likes to use his law enforcement powers to harass his critics. That’s a federal felony.
October 7th, 2009
I rarely find myself at a loss for words, but Antonin Scalia has made me so. What is the most apposite term to describe this argument? The question of the meaning of a cross in the context of a war memorial did give rise to one heated exchange, between Justice Scalia and Peter J. Eliasberg, [...]
September 21st, 2008
Category: Civil liberty
Maybe if more people knew who Bayard Rustin was, black preachers wouldn’t be as comfortable pushing anti-gay garbage on their congregations.
September 15th, 2008
Category: Civil liberty
“If all you do is walk the halls of power, all you hear are the wants of the powerful.”
May 27th, 2008
Category: Civil liberty
Excluding lesbians isn’t justified by any of the usual arguments for excluding gay men. Yet everyone who supports the latter supports the former. Howcum?
January 27th, 2008
Category: Civil liberty
Mayor Bloomberg, the NYPD Counter-Terrorism Division, and the Department of Homeland Security want to require a police permit for the possession of air quality monitors in NYC. No, seriously.