Archive for the '_politics' Category

Windfall Profits

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

The term “windfalls profits” that has increasingly been thrown around the political arena lately really gets under my skin.  I intended to write up my thoughts on the issue, but I found a great article that pretty much covers it here.  Comments?  Arguments?

Boumediene v. Bush

Monday, June 16th, 2008

If you haven’t heard, the Supreme Court just ruled 5-4 in Boumediene v. Bush that habeas corpus (the right of Americans to challenge detention by the government) now extends to non-American enemy combatants captured abroad trying to kill Americans in the war on terror. Here is a great article on how far the Court [...]

DC

Tuesday, October 16th, 2007

I was recently asked for my take on the recent court proceedings surrounding the Washington D.C. gun ban. If you are interested in the subject I encourage you to read the following article written by David Freddoso. It does not discuss the current case in depth, but it gives a great overview of [...]

O’Connor Resigned

Friday, July 1st, 2005

In case you live under a rock (this mainly means Brooke), Supreme Court Justice O’Connor just resigned. This means that Bush will probably get to appoint two Supreme Court Justices. I thought it was interesting since she wrote the dissent in the two cases that I’ve written about here.