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...accused “the hard-hard right” of trying to use the “unelected branch??—the judiciary—to enact its agenda, having failed to do so through Congress and the Presidency...
...constitutional framework of separated powers is under threat from Bush’s zealous pursuit of war in Iraq. It is quite fitting that an alum of the Harvard Law School should challenge the executive branch??s disregard for that legal framework. The Constitution’s framers deliberately vested the power to make war in the legislative branch to prevent the President from wielding the tyrannical power of a king. Congress has a duty to defend its prerogatives from executive abuses—but since it has lapsed in this duty, it is admirable and heartening that...
...earlier suits challenging the executive branch??s ability to send in troops without a declaration of war from Congress—during the Vietnam and Gulf wars—both failed...
From my desk in Cambridge, the largest problem, of course, is the recent integration of the Negro in our Great American Past-time, the game of Base-ball. This so-called “Branch?? Rickey and his artful Dodgers have turned the sporting world upside-down with the inclusion of Jack Robinson in regulation base-ball. It is an outrage! A black man playing amongst his betters—and this Robinson has no respect! I am told that Robinson led base-ball in the dubious categories of “steals” last season?...
Branch has obviously benefited greatly from the adroit producing hands of Jeff Shanks, who straps Branch??s voice and guitar centre stage, underscoring with hip-hop beats, richly textured orchestrations and densely ethereal atmospherics. Shanks gives a decidedly varied spin to jangle/folk-rock, but does almost too much; throughout, you wish he’d get out of the way and just let the kid sing. It’s a testament to Branch??s musical poise that she doesn’t get lost in the over-zealous mix. That said, the pairing of rolling acoustic...