Professor Brian Kalt is dissapointed with Senator Biden’s legal views:
First, when asked why he supported the decision in Roe, Biden said “Because it’s as close to a consensus that can exist in a society as heterogeneous as ours.” That’s a preposterous answer, for three reasons. First, anyone who can put the words “Roe” and “consensus” [...]

Professor Lederman at Balkinization:
 What’s really driving the opposition is that if the detainees were housed in the United States, the Administration would no longer be able to argue that they lack any constitutional rights to challenge their detention in habeas proceedings. (The detainees might have a stronger claim to legal representation in the U.S., [...]

George Will writes “A Case for Conservatism” in today’s Washington Post.  I have to say that I found Will’s case to be largely unmoving.  First, Will states plainly:
The argument, like Western political philosophy generally, is about the meaning of, and the proper adjustment of the tension between, two important political goals — freedom and equality.
Which [...]

CNN has a headline story that Barak Obama did NOT, repeat, did NOT attend a Maddrassa as a young by living in Indonesia.   The fact that CNN would send someone to check out the school personally, and come out and refute the allegation so strongly is, in some ways, much better than an apology [...]

And here’s the kicker: it wouldn’t be that hard. Really. A single legal
council for the entirety of that courtroom would have been enough to
make a dramatic difference. Or just a paralegal with a notepad. Hell,
even a regular viewer of Law & Order might do. S/he could be in and
out in an hour. Just someone. Anyone. [...]

The Tennessean has a very good front page article on a local Navy whistle-blower, Lt. Jason Hudson.  Mr. Hudson is on the verge of being pushed out of the Navy because, according to The Tennessean,
The policy set a limit on the number of minorities admitted into the
Navy whose scores on a standardized test classified them [...]

Andrew at BlogDC already has a post with the skinny on Mr. Young’s outrageously racist remarks, but I wanted to bring up his apology for a minute.  First of all, Mr. Young defends WalMart by saying:
In an interview published in Thursday’s Los Angeles Sentinel, he was
asked about the retailer’s role in displacing mom-and-pop stores.  "Well, [...]

The answer’s obvious, and doesn’t really require thought.  Watch this video of Joss talking about gender equality anyway.