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Or maybe we should all hang ourselves.

Just an update on the Graham Amendment, that assault on our constitution that I posted about some time ago. Hilary and Katherine, the two heroines of Obsidian Wings, have stayed on the job, while the...

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one hero smears himself, while another implodes.

I'm live-blogging a lecture by Floyd Abrams at Columbia Journalism School - because I can't believe what he's saying, in the process of supposedly discussing the constitutional right to protect...

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on a magic carpet (bomb) ride

I know, it's been forever: I'm reporting simultaneously for two different pieces, one about domestic violence in New York's immigrant communities and one, called informally "The Things They Carry,"...

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when PR falls on us like snow

Journalists say it over and over:  journalism is the opposite of public relations. We're supposed to be afflicting the comfortable, comforting the afflicted, puncturing holes in the smooth stories...

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john mccain figleafs a national emergency

Those of you who faithfully read this blog only need to know this: the Graham Amendment, the one all set to undo Rasul and kiss habeas corpus goodbye, just got worse. Forget all the press about John...

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satyagraha in NOLA

Mahatma Gandhi and MLK would both be proud of what they've done in the Ninth Ward. Not the government - the people standing in front of bulldozers.When I 've taught introductory composition to...

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Jesus goes to court - in Rome

I break a blogfast, and look what happens. But when I saw this headline, and the story that goes with it, I couldn't resist.  Leave it to elderly Roman men to decide that another, an Italian judge,...

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r.i.p. - the first hero of my lai

“Didn't you take your life in your hands, Hugh, when you got out and told the American soldiers who had been killing that they'd better quit and let these people get out of the bunker,” Wallace asked...

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Paul Gregory House v...Sammy Alito?

Just back from California and  much to tell. But for right now, I want to  note that last Wednesday, while I interviewed brave antiwar veterans, the Supreme Court heard arguments in House v. Bell --...

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notes from their front line

I know I said I’d blog from California, but the trip proved unexpectedly tiring: physical challenges to  my vertigo presented by hills and wobbly public transit, the usual business-trip logistics, and...

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