Justice under Bush: the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division has shifted its focus.
New hiring policies.
New cases.
Fewer offices.
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Monthly Archives: July 2006
What’s new in civil rights?
Tuesday, July 25, 2006
Naming of Parts
Sunday, July 16, 2006
From Henry Reed’s Lessons of The War:
I. Naming of Parts
To-day we have naming of parts. Yesterday,
We had daily cleaning. And to-morrow morning,
We shall have what to do after firing. But to-day,
To-day we have naming of parts. Japonica
Glistens like coral in all of the neighboring gardens,
And to-day we have naming of parts.
This is the lower sling [...]
Re-liberation Theology: Imperialism, Insurrection, Insurgency
Sunday, July 9, 2006
It’s old news that the US is scaling back in Afghanistan. With NATO in charge, there seems little chance that various national caveats to the standard rules of engagment will enable the military forces there to beat back the warlords. I doubt that anyone even thinks that’s a legitimate goal; most seem convinced that we [...]
“To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception”
Wednesday, July 5, 2006
My disposition is basically skeptical, but Kierkegaard cuts to the heart of skepticism’s fault here:
“If it is true–as conceited shrewdness, proud of not being deceived, thinks–that one should believe nothing which he cannot see by means of his physical eyes, then first and foremost one ought to give up believing in love. If one did [...]