links for 2007-03-28

• James Madison maintained that the wanton removal from office of meritorious officers would be an act of maladministration which would render the President subject to impeachment.... He also contended that the power of the President unilaterally to remove
  (tags: 20070327 constitution bushisms)
• Christy Hardin Smith: The Right To Remain Silent…Or Not: that seems to me to be the crux of the problem for Ms. Goodling: the cover story hasn't been settled on this one, and in a fluid situation where telling the truth can get you in trouble with the v
  (tags: 20070327 bushisms attorneys justice)
• John Holbo: As Matt[hew Yglesias] says: “[Rudy Giuliani is] still, I think, a pretty creepy authoritarian but the idea he’s expressing has a reasonably distinguished lineage and isn’t just some madness he dreamed up on his couch one afternoon.” Ye
  (tags: 20070327 moral_philosophy liberty)
• Timothy Burke asks: when and how did one faction of the Western left come to regard sovereignty as the singular inviolate principle that left politics is called upon to defend, and by which people who are truly “left” may be separated from riff-raff m
  (tags: 20070327 iraq politics chomsky moral_responsibility moral_philosophy)
• Daniel Davies: I do think it’s really weird to boycott an anti-war demonstration because of qualms about the people organising it though; it is not as if the pro-war side were not making some very questionable alliances of their own at that time, and no
  (tags: 20070327 moral_responsibility moral_philosophy iraq)
• Roger Ehrenberg: Blackstone: "Private Equity" Goes Public (then they can take themselves private again in five years)
  (tags: 20070327 finance behavioral_finance)
• Dani Rodrik: The Real Enemies of Free Trade Are the Neoliberals Who Advocate It
  (tags: 20070327 political_economy social_democracy moral_philosophy free_trade international_trade globalization politics trade business international)
• Digby on Faith-Based Governance
  (tags: 20070327 evolution Republicans moral_responsibility utter_stupidity)