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O’Connor’s Eisenhower Moment?

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Friday, March 31, 2006

In a speech this month, ex-Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor warned that “dictatorship” could eventually result if Republican attacks on the judiciary intensify. Bloggers instantly hailed her remarks as suggestive of President Eisenhower’s “Beware the Military/Industrial Complex” speech. Also,

Baghdad Syndrome

Michael O'Hanlon, senior fellow in foreign policy studies at the Brookings Institution
and
Fawaz Gerges, Christian A. Johnson Professor in Middle East and International Affairs at Sarah Lawrence College and author, The Far Enemy: Why Jihad Went Global (Cambridge University Press, 2005)
- on Jill Carroll, Ibrahim ...

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Blue in the Face

Carol Pott, editorThe Blue Pages (Poli Point Press 2006)
- on shopping according to your political leanings

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The Supremes

Dahlia Lithwick, senior editor for Slate Magazine, Supreme Court correspondent, and co-author, Me v. Everybody: Absurd Contracts for an Absurd World (Workman,2003)
- on various cases in front of the court

» How Do You Solve the Problem of Scalia? by Dahlia Lithwick in Slate Magazine

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"All I can tell you to do is sit tight."

Glenn Corbett, professor of fire science, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
and
Fred Mogul, WNYC reporter
- on the newly released 911 tapes from September 11

» John Jay College of Criminal Justice

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Required Reading: March 31, 2006

In which freed reporter Jill Carroll shows signs of Stockholm syndrome, Rep. Weiner accuses Gov. Corzine of a Ground Zero "shakedown", it's Bloomberg & Corzine v. Pataki & Silverstein over rebuilding downtown, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's 9/11 plans are revealed in a courtroom, and Naomi Campbell uses a crystal-encrusted BlackBerry ...

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