Posted on February 1, 2010, 10:34 pm, by Jack L. B. Gohn, under
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Do we want our presidents empowered to imprison people simply for their beliefs?
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Next I Read The News Entry Seems Like Old Times in Afghanistan They say that President Obama is meeting with platoons of advisors to determine whether and if so how to carry on that conflict. To those of us old enough to remember Vietnam, it all seems eerily familiar. Take one Democratic president, elected with […]
Posted on September 26, 2009, 7:04 pm, by Jack L. B. Gohn, under
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It is tempting to view the stories told in [Eric] Boehlert’s two books, one chronicling the failure of the mainstream media to report the news and the other revealing the success of the blogs in doing so, as being parts of the same story. Maybe the mainstream media would not be failing from a business perspective were they not, most of the time, failing from a news-reporting perspective as well. Maybe the blogs would not be succeeding, albeit under their mostly profit-agnostic criteria, were they not beginning to seize the standard of bona fide reporting falling from the grasp of the mainstream media as they tumble lifeless upon the field of economic battle.
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Bruce Wilson,
cable news,
CBS News,
Chris Matthews,
CIA prisons,
cling to guns or religion,
Eric Boehlert,
First Amendment,
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Huffington Post,
Iowa caucuses,
John Hagee,
Katie Couric,
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magazines,
Mark Crispin Miller,
Mayhill Fowler,
netroots,
New Hampshire primary,
New York Times,
newspapers,
NSA,
off-the-record,
on-the-record,
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sexism,
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Posted on June 28, 2009, 7:18 am, by Jack L. B. Gohn, under
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Just Following Orders [I]t can never be maintained that a military officer can justify himself for doing an unlawful act, by producing the order of his superior. Chief Justice Taney, Mitchell v. Harmony, 54 U.S. 115, 137 (1851)[1] Last time, we started with the premise that the MPs who abused the detainees […]
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Leon Panetta,
Mitchell v. Harmony,
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Nuremberg Trials,
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Richard Cheney,
Roger B. Taney,
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Posted on October 27, 2008, 2:56 pm, by Jack L. B. Gohn, under
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Will our next President reverse the dangerous overextension of executive power? Michael Traynor’s talk at the American Law Institute conjures up memories of ancient Rome.
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dictator in perpetuo,
dictatorship,
firing of U.S. Attorneys,
Geneva Conventions,
Glen Greenwald,
governmental secrecy,
habeas corpus,
illegal surveillance,
indefinite detention,
John McCain,
Julius Caesar,
Laurence Tribe,
Michael Traynor,
Restatements of the Law,
Roman committees,
Roman consuls,
Roman Empire,
Roman kings,
Roman magistracy,
Roman proconsuls,
Roman Senate,
Roman tribunate,
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Posted on July 28, 2008, 6:40 pm, by Jack L. B. Gohn, under
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All over the political spectrum, people are slow to comprehend, quick to take offense at the Barry Blitt New Yorker cover of the fist-bumping Obamas. Can’t Take A Joke? Apparently not.
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David Howard,
John McCain,
Michele Obama,
Muslims,
Rudy Guiliani,
Ryan Lizza,
Sophia Nelson,
Swift Boaters,
the N-word,
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The New Yorker,
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Posted on April 27, 2007, 8:07 pm, by Jack L. B. Gohn, under
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The Big Picture Home Page | Previous Big Picture Column | Next Big Picture Column Unfunny Imus It was certainly legal to fire Don Imus. He was employed by private employers (at least to the extent that public corporations whose stock in trade is use of public airwaves can realistically be called private), so by […]
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Halle Berry,
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Jesse Jackson,
Lady Knights,
racial humor,
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shock jocks,
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