Time magazine has an interesting piece on the ouster of White House Legal Counsel Greg Craig.  Let me see if I understand what has happened here correctly.  Our government has

rounded up terror suspects as if they were fishing for tuna in the 1980’s, treating the innocent they have caught in this dredging as if they [...]

Julian Sanchez writes that the reaction to Congresswoman Michelle Bachman’s stance on filling out census data is a bit naive.
Still, I find it extraordinary that at the very sites where, not too long ago, one used to read routinely about these abuses as carried out by a Republican administration, it’s suddenly considered utterly batty to [...]

In the class I am co-teaching, my colleague asked the students, with regard to Antigone, “was Creon wrong to think people would see him as weak for changing his mind?”   The question led to a discussion on why we do not let our leaders change opinion.  One student pointed out that leaders are loved when [...]

The elections in Zimbabwe came to an all-too-predictable end today.  There are few things I can think of that I feel more conflicted over than our obligations when such failures take place. The UK appears to be moving quickly into the realm of sanctions and I don’t have any real sense of where the United [...]

I’ll tip my hand by the way I frame these quotes in terms of my view of the decision:
Chief Justice Roberts, Dissenting:
It is grossly premature to pronounce on the detainees’ right to habeas without first assessing whether the remedies the DTA system provides vindicate whatever rights petitioners may claim.
Hamdi concluded that American citizens detained as enemy combatants [...]

The framework of the decision:
Based on this language from Eisentrager, and the reasoning in our other extraterritoriality opinions, we conclude that at least three factors are relevant in determining the reach of the Suspension Clause: (1) the citizenship and status of the detainee and the adequacy of the process through which that status determination was made; (2) the nature of [...]

To answer the question raised by this column written in very questionable taste, I imagine that women watch Sex and the City because it’s about four women who do what they like and don’t really care what you, as a man, think about their decisions.
In the interest of full disclosure, I do not enjoy the [...]