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Thursday, March 27, 2003 |
The war at home. From the Village Voice: Briefly, the dots connect like this: The administration's refusal to release Patriot Act-related records to Congress, the refusal to release the names of detainees and open their court hearings to the public, and the Freedom of... [This Modern World by Tom Tomorrow]
3:22:03 PM Permalink
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The state in your bedroom
This is one of the most amazing things I've read in some time. In the Supreme Court yesterday, Antonin Scalia says that he hasn't conceded that the state can't regulate what married couples do in their own bedrooms:
"It's conceded by the state of Texas that married couples can't be regulated in their private sexual decisions," says Smith. To which Scalia rejoins, "They may have conceded it, but I haven't."
So let's be clear: A justice on the Supreme Court of the United States of America states that he doesn't believe the state can't regulate what you do in your bedroom.
Read the Slate article; it's one of the funniest things you're likely to read in a long time. Till you remember that people can go to jail, lose their jobs, be fined, lose custody rights for their kids, etc. etc. because some people don't like what they do behind closed doors. It's reprehensible.
12:21:53 PM Permalink
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Presidential candidate Howard Dean gave a talk at Harvard last night. He asked an interesting question. Next year, how will we feel when China invades Taiwan because they think they have weapons of mass destruction? Has the new Bush Doctrine, pre-emptive wars, unleashed a philosophy of world power that we may not be so comfortable with? [Scripting News]
No, I'm sure the Bush doctrine is only for us. It doesn't apply to other countries. Just as the Geneva Convention, obeying U.N. Security Council resolutions, and any treaties the current White House doesn't like don't appeal to us. This administration clearly sees one set of rules for us, another set for everyone else. We are, as Condoleeza Rice said, "a special country."
8:13:13 AM Permalink
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