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)

Comments

[Tyrone Slothrop]

What is Del.icio.us and what is the significance of these bookmarks?

[RKKA]

The Wolf piece on Russia is pretty rich. It really can't be said that the West wanted any such transformation in Russia, because if you don't supply the means, you aren't serious about the ends. A policy summarized by Bill Clinton as "Okay Boris, here's what you've got to do next. here's some more sh#t for your face." isn't going to produce any "open-access order.

And the idea that dropping oil prices would force the Russian government to finally get serious about Reform is even more laughable. Didn't work the last time, did it. Why would it work now?