Bookmarked at Del.icio.us for 2007-02-22 Peter Bergen: "Paul Cruickshank of NYU's Center on Law and Security and I coauthored this attached study which we believe is the first attempt to measure the effect of the Iraq war on jihadist terrorism. The headline-- a sevenfold increase in jihadist ter (tags: 20070220 bushisms grand_strategy terrorism) Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad, 118 U.S. 394 (1886) (tags: 20070221 corporations law constitutional_moments) WHEELING STEEL CORP. V. GLANDER , 337 U.S. 562 (1949). Dissent by Douglas and Black (tags: 20070221 corporations law constitutional_moment) Nathan Newman: Amnesia on the Death of Reconstruction (tags: 20070221 moral_responsibility moral_philosophy reconstruction slavery constitutional_moments) Marty Lederman: Habeas Corpus (tags: 20070221 civil_liberties guantanamo law politics torture) Dana Milbank: The Defense Rests, and Not a Minute Too Soon: "For a brief moment yesterday, Scooter Libby was not a former White House aide on trial for perjury. He was an orphan in need of a loving home..." (tags: 20070221 bushisms libby fitzgerald) Ezra Klein: The End of Romney? "That's not a qualified defense of choice. It's a full-throated, self-righteous defense of his long-standing, totally immutable belief that women should be able to control their reproductive health. And this isn't from 1993, (tags: 20070221 politics abortion Republicans) Another Present from Judge Sentelle, the Man Who Brought Us Ken Starr: D.C. Circuit Upholds Jurisdiction-Stripping of Guantanamo Habeas Claims. SENTELLE and RANDOLPH are the majority. ROGERS dissents. (tags: 20070221 habeas_corpus bushisms moral_responsibility moral_philosophy) Martin Wolf: As long as it is trapped, the Russian bear will growl: "We need to ask what sort of a country Russia has become. The answer is a “limited access order”, in the language of a recent paper co-authored by the Nobel-laureate economic historia (tags: 20070221 martin_wolf grand_strategy russia) Leonard E. Burman, Jason Furman, Greg Leiserson, Roberton Williams: The President's Proposed Standard Deduction for Health Insurance: An Evaluation: "We also recommend some modifications that could transform the proposal from a risky change that might des (tags: 20070221 bushisms economics health health_economics health_policy) Edward Coke at Wikipedia (tags: 20070221 law moral_responsibility liberty)