The ongoing carnival of the Moussaoui trial has introduced still another act: the main character turning the tables on his defense team (and himself) by a spectacular in-court confession during the sentencing stage of his trial. This gesture of Moussaoui’s … Continue reading →
After I made my flip comment in today’s Petrov post about undeserving Nobel Peace Prize winners, I decided to actually look up the list of recipients over the years. And they haven’t been as uniformly bad as I thought. Take … Continue reading →
I added the following as a comment to the original post on the subject, but I thought I’d highlight it here as well, since it’s a response to points made by many readers in the comments section. This post doesn’t … Continue reading →
Dean Esmay wrote a short post with the following statement that caught my eye: …I still note with some mild annoyance that apparently it’s okay to loudly proclaim for “a woman’s right to choose,” and evil and wicked and oppressive … Continue reading →
I’ve been a bit puzzled as to why neocons have been accused so often of being motivated by fear in taking the policy positions they do (see this, for example). When I’ve written here about the evolution of my own … Continue reading →
The controversy over yesterday’s David Irving conviction, and the more general question of whether Holocaust denial should be a criminal offense, seem on the surface to be no-brainers, easily resolvable by saying that the principle of free speech dictates that … Continue reading →
I haven’t written yet about the controversy over government wiretaps designed to eavesdrop on conversations with terrorists. That’s partly because so many have covered the story already, and partly because I like to do a lot of reading on a … Continue reading →
They seem like strange bedfellows: Bianca Jagger and Ramsey Clark. But I think something the former said can shed a bit of light on the dark and murky thought processes of the latter. Writing in Friday’s NY Post, Amir Taheri … Continue reading →
Here’s an update on the post “Calling all lawyers”: The call has been answered. I consider the following e-mail response from a trusted legal source to be definitive: There’s no question that perjury can be prosecuted if the defendant lied … Continue reading →
It’s about perjury. “Perjury” is a term that’s being used in connection with the Libby indictment. It’s often loosely defined as “lying under oath.” But it turns out that lying under oath is a necessary, but not sufficient, element of … Continue reading →
Methinks I hear the fat lady singing for Ms. Miers, and it’s an ugly sound–a cross between a squawk, a whine, a groan, and a croak. I don’t believe we have any real way of knowing whether Ms. Miers is … Continue reading →
In my last post, about Saddam as press hero, I wrote about transmuting the very human desire for personal revenge into the desire for a different sort of justice, the justice of a trial. No sooner said than done, apparently. … Continue reading →