Author: fairleft

Law professors, masters of argument and influence, are of course assholes (i.e., servants of corporate power and/or practicers of deliberate diversion from confronting corporate power). But the art of their particular...

The body of Ali Hamed, who was killed in a raid in Baghdad by U.S. troops, is prepared to be washed for burial in the Shiite holy city of Najaf, 160 kilometers (100 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraq on Sunday, Oct. 21, 2007. . . ....

Updating from my earlier dairy on Attorney General Nominee Mukasey, Ward Harkavy at the Village Voice has more on the A@#$hole that is Mukasey: Mukasey Stood Up for Convicted Arsonist In a previously unreported episode, U.S....

I’m a free-trader.  . . .  I’m very libertarian. I’m working on a book called The Libertarian Democrat.  . . .  I like to make a lot of money. Like many bad ideas, libertarianism is based on...

SCOTT PELLEY: When your airplane approaches Manhattan this week, you will look out the window and you will see that the World Trade Center is gone. Many Americans, Mr. President, to be frank, believe that you look out that...