links for 2007-06-30 SCOTUSblog: In a startling turn of events in the legal combat over the war on terrorism, the Supreme Court on Friday agreed to reconsider the appeals in the Guantanamo Bay detainee cases. It vacated its April 2 order denying review of the two packets of c Paul Yingling: He was frustrated at how slowly the Army had adjusted to the demands of guerrilla war, and ashamed he hadn't done more to push for change. By the end of the ceremony, he says, he could barely look the wounded troops in the eyes. Col. Yingli Notes: Suskind and O'Neill: Archive Entry From Brad DeLong's Webjournal Brad DeLong: One of the disturbing things about reading Ron Suskind's The Price of Loyalty is that in the book Vice President Richard Cheney wears an even blacker hat than Lee Marvin wears in "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence." Think Progress: Under Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, U.S. special operations became a “giant killing machine,” according to former Army colonel Douglas Macgregor, who anticipates a change when Navy Vice Adm. Eric Olson takes the helm of the operat Felix Salmon: Why Margin Calls Need Not Destroy the CDO Market SF Signal: SF/F Writers Who Blog The Next Hurrah: [T]the most interesting part of the Tatel opinion is the two-page section that remains redacted... explaining why Fitzgerald suspects Rove perjured himself in his testimony about Novak and Cooper Rupert Murdoch: "They're taking five billion dollars out of me and want to keep control," Rupert Murdoch was saying into the phone, "in an industry in crisis! They can't sell their company and still control it — that's not how it works. I'm sorry!" Tom Palmer: A friend just sent me a rather shocked link to Amazon.com’s page for Jonah Goldberg’s new book with the utterly crazy title: “Liberal Fascism: The Totalitarian Temptation from Hegel to Whole Foods.” The original subtitle was “The Tot