Nice. Attorney General Says President Can Kill Citizens
… Just to review, the Attorney General just said yes, the President does have “the power to authorize lethal force, such as a drone strike, against a U.S. citizen on U.S. soil, and without trial.”...
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If the FBI, and CNN, and NBC, and the New York Post, and the Atlanta Journal Constitution, and All Of Us, could get the Atlanta bombing so tragically wrong in 1996, they, and we, can do it today. In...
View ArticleAbout the Aaron Swartz Case
As usual, Ken at Popehat is a shining beacon of sanity and reason. Here he is talking About the Aaron Swartz Case: There are three things people get wrong about the prosecution and heartbreaking...
View ArticleThe NSA Behemoth
Re the U.S. Nat. Sec. Agency: The spate of new NSA disclosures substantially raises the stakes of this debate. We now know that the intelligence establishment systematically undermines oversight by...
View ArticleA new deal for copyright
If you have to understand the law to read a book, we have failed. If you have to enter into a contract – any contract, even a ‘‘good’’ contract – to read a book, we have failed. These are cultural, not...
View ArticleThe individual and the herd
Here’s what it boils down to: Human beings are simultaneously individuals and members of society, not fundamentally one or the other. Some issues (like free speech) are easier to understand from the...
View ArticleI Stand, Despite
popehat.com/2016/08/30/i-stand-despite/ I stand loving America, aware that I often fall short of what that love should mean. When I say I love America I mean I love certain shared values and founding...
View ArticleHillary Clinton, the Sixth Amendment, and Legal Ethics
popehat.com/2016/10/10/hillary-clinton-the-sixth-amendment-and-legal-ethics/ I’m a criminal defense lawyer. I’ve represented people by appointment and voluntarily, and I’ve represented people accused...
View ArticleLawsplainer: The Ninth Circuit and Compelled Speech
popehat.com/2016/10/17/lawsplainer-the-ninth-circuit-and-compelled-speech-about-abortion/ When a court applies scrutiny, it’s holding the government’s justification for a challenged law to a standard....
View ArticlePersistence of tyranny
https://www.popehat.com/2018/02/15/the-persistence-of-tyranny/ Tyranny is our capacity to rationalize exceptions to rights for our enemies. Tyranny is our willingness to dismiss violation of rights as...
View ArticleFreedom
http://artofmanliness.com/2012/02/21/freedom-from-freedom-to/ There are two kinds of freedom. Freedom fromto (positive freedom). The splitting of freedom into this binary framework can be traced at...
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https://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2012/06/virtual-real-estate/ Ownership is somewhat of a gray area, both with physical and virtual real estate. I use the term loosely here. Ownership depends on how...
View ArticleFreedom
There are two kinds of freedom. Freedom fromto (positive freedom). The splitting of freedom into this binary framework can be traced at least back to Kant, was articulated by Erich Fromm in his 1941...
View ArticleNice. Attorney General Says President Can Kill Citizens
… Just to review, the Attorney General just said yes, the President does have “the power to authorize lethal force, such as a drone strike, against a U.S. citizen on U.S. soil, and without trial.”...
View ArticleA Grain of Salt
http://www.popehat.com/2013/04/16/richard-jewell-cannot-accept-our-apology/ If the FBI, and CNN, and NBC, and the New York Post, and the Atlanta Journal Constitution, and All Of Us, could get the...
View ArticleAbout the Aaron Swartz Case
http://www.popehat.com/2013/03/24/three-things-you-may-not-get-about-the-aaron-swartz-case/ There are three things people get wrong about the prosecution and heartbreaking suicide of Aaron Swartz. Two...
View ArticleThe NSA Behemoth
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/13/nsa-behemoth-trampling-rights The spate of new NSA disclosures substantially raises the stakes of this debate. We now know that the intelligence...
View ArticleA new deal for copyright
http://www.locusmag.com/Perspectives/2015/01/cory-doctorow-a-new-deal-for-copyright/ If you have to understand the law to read a book, we have failed. If you have to enter into a contract – any...
View ArticleThe individual and the herd
http://weeklysift.com/2015/02/09/the-individual-and-the-herd/ Here’s what it boils down to: Human beings are simultaneously individuals and members of society, not fundamentally one or the other. Some...
View ArticleI Stand, Despite
I stand loving America, aware that I often fall short of what that love should mean. When I say I love America I mean I love certain shared values and founding ideals like the rule of law and equality...
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