Hoisted from comments: Joe S.: I'm a lawyer. I agree with Brian. The smoking gun has long been in plain sight: Yoo's omission of Youngstown Sheet & Tube in his torture memo. The recent release merely adds to it. However, as a lawyer, let me point out something else. It will be extremely hard to conv...

Orin Kerr is a proud and welcome member of the John-Yoo-Is-a-Bad-Faith-Actor caucus: Orin Kerr: John Yoo: "Now that I'm not in the government, part of my role, because I have a certain amount of expertise, is to try to keep the government honest." -- From an interview with the Orange County Register...

Colorado State Senator David Schultheis (Republican, Colorado Springs) favors mother-child HIV transmission: Rocky Mountain News: This stems from sexual promiscuity for the most part and I just can't go there. We do things continually to remove the consequences of poor behavior, unacceptable behavio...

Shame on every single Republican House member for their root-and-branch opposition to a fiscal boost. Shame on the root-and-branch opposition to a fiscal boost by Republican Senators Alexander, Barrasso, Bennett, Bond, Brownback, Bunning, Burr, Chambliss, Coburn, Cochran, Corker, Cornyn, Crapo, DeMi...

Let's turn the microphone over to Abraham Lincoln: Abraham Lincoln: First Inaugural Address: If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might in a moral point of view justify revolution; certainly would if such right were a vi...

Will you please stop putting some of your best work in National Review! Think of the children! Good News For Narnia - Ross Douthat: As I put it in my NR review: The movie plays up ... every tension it finds in Lewis's novel, and invents several more, creating rivalries (between Peter and Caspian), g...

The inauguration of Barack Hussein Obama as the 44th president of the United States of America offers the possibility of the first episode of normal politics and policy-making since... since... since... Well, from 2001-2008 we have been ruled by cruel and incompetent wingnuts. From 1995-2001 the con...

Dahlia Lithwick and Philippe Sands: How the Susan Crawford interview changes everything we know about torture: When Vice President Dick Cheney told the Weekly Standard last week, "I think on the left wing of the Democratic Party there are some people who believe that we really tortured," he probably...

Charles Fried says that the law is not the law when the crimes are "political crimes" committed by a highly-placed Republican: The Washington Monthly: But should the high and mighty get off when ordinary people committing the same crimes would go to prison? The answer is that they are not the same c...

People who have endorsed the Republican House caucus's objections to the stimulus package: Donald Luskin, Chief Investment Officer, Trend Macrolytics LLC, Stupidest Man Alive EmeritusTM: "Government spending does not create incentives for labor, innovation and investment. Instead of spending $1 tril...