Sotomayor An Unknown Quantity On Executive Power Issues
Back in the dark ages of, say, yesterday, when I had settled into the (totally wrong) mindset that today's nomination announcement was going the way o...
Back in the dark ages of, say, yesterday, when I had settled into the (totally wrong) mindset that today's nomination announcement was going the way o...
Robert Creamer | Posted 05.22.2009 | Politics
Why take the "chance" by bringing additional Guantanamo detainees to our shores? Because it is essential to our national security that we close it down -- and this step is necessary to make that happen.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.06.2009 | Politics
Calculated Risk has some great highlights of Bill Moyers interview with University of Missouri professor William K. Black that are worth reading. Her...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.03.2009 | Politics
It's Friday, and I'm feeling generous and mercurial, so here's a fun and shameless plug! Los Angelenos in the house? This Saturday, enjoy the dynami...
Tom Alderman | Posted 03.24.2009 | Media
The Secret Service call him Angler because he fishes. In this audiobook, you'll hear why so many call him the most significant vice president our country has experienced -- ever.
Doug Kendall | Posted 01.08.2009 | Politics
The letter in defense of Eric Holder is a classic articulation of the idea that the President is a unitary executive. It also happens to be essentially right.
Charles Shaw | Posted 06.30.2008 | Politics
The policy of the "Unitary Executive" (which grants Bush unchecked power during national emergencies) was the "single most successfully implemented policy" of the Bush/Cheney administration.
Paula Gordon | Posted 06.26.2008 | Politics
Granting immunity to telephone companies illegally spying on Americans is far worse than business-as-usual, which is that corporations win.
Janet Ritz | Posted 04.13.2008 | Politics
The Bush administration's seeming incompetence, its torture memos and its rush to war parallels the way that Caesar and his contemporaries used war to further wealth and political ambition.
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 01.29.2008 | Politics
The United States Congress should begin impeachment proceedings against President George W. Bush this afternoon. Once again, he has violated the U.S....
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HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.26.2009 | Media