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Analysis and Commentary

Detention Retention

by Benjamin Wittesvia New Republic
Friday, December 7, 2007

Seth Waxman, arguing on behalf of 37 detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, told the Supreme Court Wednesday that each of these men "maintains, as this Court explained [in an earlier case] that he is quote 'innocent of all wrongdoing...'"

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Tort reform in the third branch

with Richard A. Epsteinvia Point of Law
Thursday, December 6, 2007

Normally, persuading the legislature and the executive to pass a law reforming problems is sufficient, but when it comes to tort reform, the trial bar has a well-funded arm that takes the battle to the third branch of government, the judiciary, which, dozens of times, has asserted its own legislative authority to strike down laws...

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The Rise Of Paramilitary Crime-Fighting

with Joseph D. McNamaravia Black Voice News (CA)
Thursday, December 6, 2007

There's a "Bear" on the loose prowling the mean streets of 80 percent of America's top 100 urban cities including Los Angeles, New York, Chicago and Indianapolis...

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Immigration debate unifies California GOP

with Bill Whalenvia Los Angeles Times
Wednesday, December 5, 2007

Thirteen years after a ballot measure against illegal immigration fractured the state Republican Party, the issue again is front and center in California's upcoming presidential primary...

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Richard Epstein: A Maverick's View of the Supreme Court

with Richard A. Epsteinvia University of Chicago Law School Faculty Blog
Thursday, November 29, 2007

Richard Epstein, who this fall is a distinguished visiting scholar at the Manhattan Institute's Center for Legal Policy, has been treating that institution to a lecture series entitled "Law, Litigation, and State Power..."

Analysis and Commentary

A Little Less Conversation

by Benjamin Wittesvia New Republic
Thursday, November 29, 2007

Sen. Ted Kennedy has drawn a line in the sand...

Analysis and Commentary

Importance of property can't be easily dismissed

by Tibor R. Machanvia Freedom Communications
Friday, November 23, 2007

When both life and property are threatened, there is much talk about how property is only stuff, easy to replace, so one should be concerned only or primarily with life...

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"Affirmative Action," hyphenated Americans, and other conundrums

with Victor Davis Hansonvia Pajamas Media
Sunday, November 18, 2007

What is your favorite bit of Orwellian Newspeak?

Analysis and Commentary

The threat from terrorism does not justify slicing away our freedoms

by Timothy Garton Ashvia Guardian (UK)
Thursday, November 15, 2007

Smiley swirled the last of the brandy in his balloon glass and muttered: "We've given up far too many freedoms in order to be free. Now we've got to take them back..."

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Conference Announcement: Bernard Siegen Memorial Conference at the University of San Diego

with Richard A. Epsteinvia Legal Theory Blog
Thursday, November 15, 2007

You are invited to attend the 2007 Bernard Siegen Memorial Conference: Economic Liberties, Property Rights, and the Original Meaning of the Constitution on Friday and Saturday, November 16-17, 2007 in Warren Hall's Faculty Reading Room at the University of San Diego School of Law...

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