Sarah Palin: Abuse of Power

A bipartisan legislative council found that Sarah Palin violated state ethics law and abused her power when she tried to get her ex-brother in law fired. CNN has the breaking story here.
“Gov. Palin knowingly permitted a situation to continue where impermissible pressure was placed on several subordinates in order to advance a personal agenda,” the [...]

Thank you, Sullivan

One of the only commentators who writes about civil liberties and torture.

If you aren’t creeped out by what has been going on these past two weeks in America, you are not paying attention.

President Obama and the Pursuit of Justice

Recently Joe Biden implied that they might be interested in investigating crimes that may have been conducted by the Bush administration. 
If there has been a basis upon which you can pursue someone for a criminal violation, they will be pursued.
At first this struck me as somewhat disingenuous. I must admit that Obama’s compromise on the [...]