Word: circuitousness
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...same time, conservative Judge Michael Luttig of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago, whom many on the right wanted President Bush to name to the Supreme Court, abruptly resigned yesterday, reportedly in part because of civil liberties issues. The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday that Luttig was shocked back in November when the Bush Justice Department announced that the government would file charges against suspected terrorist Jose Padilla as if he were a regular citizen. Just two months earlier, Luttig had written a seminal opinion saying that the federal government could detain Padilla without a charge, reasoning...
...McClellan plans to eventually go back to Texas, but says he?s "not rushing off." He's not sure what he?s going to do, but has a variety of offers. "There have been a couple of book opportunities that I've been approached about," he said. "The speaking circuit sounds pretty interesting, too, and I'm exploring that...
...view of the Pacific Ocean from the 1,500-m Point Lookout platform is just one of the joys awaiting hikers in New England National Park (nationalparks.nsw.gov.au)?an ecological wonderland of soaring cliffs and World Heritage rain forest. If time is limited, the 2.5-km Eagle's Nest circuit, along the edge of a sheer drop, offers adrenaline in a jiffy...
Gass started his experiments by running a small electrical charge through the blade of his Delta power saw. Whenever the blade was touched, the body would absorb some of the charge like a circuit breaker and immediately trigger the brake. He built a prototype, videotaped the demonstration and tried to license his invention to power-tool manufacturers like Delta. "One company said, 'We decided not to pursue this because the marketing guys say safety doesn't sell,'" he recalls...
...Other events on the political horizon may animate conservatives as well. There's an upcoming battle over the judicial nomination of Brett Kavanaugh, the White House Staff Secretary, to be on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, the second highest court in the land. Kavanaugh, a 38-year-old GOP veteran who worked for Whitewater Special Counsel Kenneth Starr, faces a possible filibuster. And Washington State's Supreme Court may soon strike down the state's marriage statute as discriminatory - making it the second state, after Massachusetts, to legalize gay marriage. Since Washington has no marriage residency requirement, one conservative...