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...biggest surprise from the Supreme Court term that just ended: Barack Obama hearts the Roberts Court. At the end of June, the Democratic candidate praised Justice Antonin Scalia's 5-4 decision striking down the Washington ban on handgun possession, a ruling that recognizes the right to bear arms as an individual right. Two weeks earlier, from the other side of the ideological spectrum, Obama praised Justice Anthony Kennedy's 5-4 decision allowing enemy combatants to challenge their detentions in federal courts, a rebuke to the Bush Administration's policies toward Guantánamo detainees. Obama's only major quarrel...
While the returns fall short of last year's exceptional 23 percent performance for the full 12-month period, they are comparatively strong given that they come amid a bear market that has seen the S&P 500 index, a standard baseline for stock-market performance, lose eight percent during the same July to April period...
...morning of June 9, Israel got into his GMC Envoy and drove 30 miles from his Westchester home to Bear Mountain Bridge. There, he left his car behind with the words “suicide is painless” scrawled in dust on the windshield. His next move is something of a mystery, but investigators remain fairly convinced it did not involve hurling himself into the river below. A search has yielded no body, and it soon dawned on police that Israel’s morbid window writing was the title of the theme song from...
...movement is to develop the technology for collaborative analysis of bills online," says Rafael DeGennaro, a longtime congressional staffer and former president of Taxpayers for Common Sense. An example of the impact of legislative annotation took place as far back as a year ago, when conservative blogger N.Z. Bear posted a PDF version of the 2007 Senate Immigration Bill, helping opponents of the bill rally around particularly controversial details that might otherwise have escaped their attention. The text of the bill had been closely guarded prior to the leak the weekend of May 20, 2007. Were...
...together, as Blair hopes. We're likely to see just how far apart we remain from global consensus at next week's G8 summit in Hokkaido. Developing nations know that climate change is their problem too, but they'll still bargain hard to ensure that rich nations bear most of the burden. The developed world is far from united - though E.U. nations have already committed to at least a 20% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 (compared to 1990 levels), the U.S. and oil-rich Canada remain reluctant to tie themselves down. (President George W. Bush recently pledged...