Month: July 2005

The True Meaning Of Advice And Consent

Cross posted at DEMbloggers. In 1932 legendary Justice Oliver Wendell Homes announced his retirement from the court, leaving it to President Hoover to name a new justice.  In taking his job seriously he went to the Senate...

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Today’s Economic News

DIA +.5%, SPY +.79%, QQQQ _1.95% 10-Year Treasury -9/16, yielding 4.11% Oil +84 cents $59.59 Dollar unchanged versus euro and yen The markets rallied today, partly thanks to a bullish investment call from Prudential Securities....

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Abu Gonzales and the Court

Remember this article from May, 2004? In the memo, the White House lawyer focused on a little known 1996 law passed by Congress, known as the War Crimes Act, that banned any Americans from committing war crimes—defined in part...

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Carbon Dioxide Levels Increase Ocean Acidity

Cross-posted at dailykos.com According to Britain’s leading scientific organization, the Royal Society, carbon dioxide is making the world’s oceans increasingly acidic.  The Royal Society has released 60 page...

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