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YouTube has been big for years, but today it outdid itself. The announcement of the YouTube/CNN debate and the viral Obamagirl video both spread like wildfire around the blogosphere and even the mainstream media.
Anderson Cooper and the crew at CNN have decided to throw together a new debate format that is sure to change […]

The transition from Clinton to Bush was particularly challenging for the US Department of Justice, even beyond the move from Harvard-graduate Janet Reno to questionably literate John Ashcroft. Along with the new administration came a new series of priorities, and an unhealthily low DOJ turnover rate.
This morning, The New York Times indicted the Bush […]

Jeffrey Rosen has written a scathing critique of Anthony Kennedy in the latest issue of the The New Republic. He claims that “Anthony Kennedy seems most at home when he is lecturing others about morality.”
Here are some interesting excerpts:
The grandiosity of Kennedy’s self-image was on full display in a 2005 interview he gave to the […]

In 1986, Congress adopted a 100:1 ratio for prosecuting crack cocaine and powder cocaine offenses. If I was caught dealing 10 grams crack to James, I would receive the same penalty that I would if I was caught dealing him a kilo of powder cocaine. The US Sentencing Committee has long tried to persuade Congress […]