Political Irony

Back in the days when I was frequently negotiating legal contracts, I had a trick I sometimes used to gain an unfair advantage. Most legal documents would be sent back in forth in electronic form, typically using Microsoft Word. But what most lawyers didn’t realize was that when you deleted something from a document, Word […]

Three different judges, all of them appointed by Dubya, have now rejected arguments from the Justice Department concerning executive authority to deal with detainees. What makes this ironic is that these same arguments pretty much got a pass when Dubya was president. Legal analyist Jonathan Turley says: It took a while for the courts to […]

This blog has reported previously about the “terrorist watch list”. The list has more than a million people on it — if more than a million Americans are terrorists, haven’t the terrorists already won? Or is it more likely that some of those people are on the list by mistake? You know, people like Senator […]