Cross-posted from Congress Matters. Ha ha! Where ya been, George? Seriously, this is the worst kind of day late, dollar short mewling I've ever seen! A new Capitol Visitor Center recently opened, just in time for the transformation of the Capitol building into a tomb for the antiquated idea that the...

Leading to War How does a government lead its people to war? How does it communicate to its citizens – and to the wider world – the reasons and rationale for initiating military conflict? What rhetorical devices and techniques are......

how many times have we read news stories about bush "backing down," "softening up," taking a "conciliatory stance," "signaling a willingness to 'cooperate'"...? huh...?? how many times...? and how many times was it nothing but a goddam smoke screen*, a deliberate red herring* to make everybody let d...

[Benjamin Wittes]   I’m not inclined to defend Cheney’s freelancing in Heller, but I do think David’s being a little too facile when he says in this post that “the next time a unitarian tells you the JAGs in the military, civil rights lawyers in Justice, or scientists throughout the gov...

While I don't have thoughts on the substantive merits of Heller [FN1], David's comment on the Cheney brief's implications for the unitary executive raises an issue that's interested me greatly. Simply put, I don't think that the vice president's support of the theory of the unitary executive is at o...

Regarding Dahlia's post, Mukasey's comments were unwise but not hard to understand. Death is the supreme punishment for an ordinary criminal, but it is also the supreme test for people who seek to live up to their ideals.  We would not remember Nathan Hale today if he had received a prison...

Watch online from October 16, 2007: Cheney's Law on Frontline...