…of civil rights crusading and Saul Alinsky house-to-house plodding. He then went to Harvard Law School, where he became the first black president of the Law Review; returned to Chicago…

Rice Watch Day 24 Rice recently made a direct analogy between the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s and the current efforts to create a self-governing and democratic Iraq (“The…

…lead to the Civil War (a war that, as a percentage of the current U.S. population, killed six million people. Actual number dead: 620,000 Americans-more than double the number who…

…civil libertarians. For now, anyway. The purposes of most law enforcement interrogations are to try to solve the crime, to obtain enough evidence to gain a conviction, and (often, as…

…the Tsarnaevs are examples of “vulnerable Muslims” driven to extremes by President Obama’s immoral drone war; for the right, they are foot soldiers in a civilizational war. … Neither the…

…civil lawsuit) and other procedural statutes in order to bar civil lawsuits by individuals against businesses or governments–a juggernaut of breathtakingly aggressive and audacious proportions–I refer Mr. Gerson to a…

Update: Link at Scotus blog http://www.scotusblog.com/2013/06/wednesday-round-up-187/. As prosecutors, police agencies and civil libertarians consider the ruling’s implications, Justice Scalia’s stark dissent — and the fact that President Obama’s two appointees…

…determination of the body empowered to enforce the Civil War Amendments ‘by appropriate legislation’ merits this Court’s utmost respect.”) But this is a trite point, and never mind. The problem…

…Yes: that (“Southern“) strategy worked brilliantly for decades. (Johnson said that civil-rights legislation would lose the South to Democrats “for a generation,” and he was only wrong in underestimating the…

…York Times op-ed: Uncivil comments not only polarized readers, but they often changed a participant’s interpretation of the news story itself. In the civil group, those who initially did or…