10/21/10, 5:02 PM: I’m sitting in the CGIS Tsai Auditorium right now, watching Hersh’s lecture. This live blog attempts an accurate representation on his views. His main point is that Obama, who was elected as a candidate of “change”, has not strayed much from the trail of the Bush Doctrine. Seymour Hersh, one of America’s most well-known investigative journalists, is [...]
Life time appointments to the Supreme Court are a double-edge sword. On the one hand, it is more difficult for public opinion to cloud the Justices’ readings of the Constitution. Without elections of the Justices, they are free from political pandering and saved from the possible problems of campaign contributions. Public opinion is inconstant, but the Constitution rarely changes. On [...]
Sam Barr’s most recent post makes the rather shocking claim that Rand Paul, the Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate seat in Kentucky being vacated by the retiring Jim Bunning, is a racist, or at least that he is not a non-racist. Sam deduces this from the fact that Mr. Paul is not a “consistent libertarian,” that he “picks and [...]
Ahmadinejad’s recent announcement that Iran will proceed to weapons-grade enrichment of uranium has brought much of the Western world to its senses about talking the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism into giving up its nuclear quest. On Obama’s recent call for sanctions, the BBC reports (emphasis mine): The president sounded not unlike his predecessor George W Bush, who worked [...]
I seriously wonder what the Republican Party and its operatives hope to gain by trying to defend and normalize torture as a policy tool. There are a number of possibilities, none of which are particularly heartening. The first is that torture was so widespread and so widely accepted by the Party during its time in power that investigation would result [...]
Oliver Stone sets his eyes on Bush
Taking stock of the future vice presidencyBy Laura G. Mirviss ‘12 The days when the vice presidency was worth “no more than a bucket of spit” are long over. Though the office has almost no formal powers under the Constitution, the power sharing dynamic between the president and vice president is a malleable, case-by-case determination. Thus, more than any other [...]
