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France is now poised to enact legislation making it illegal to wear the burqa (full body covering) and the niqab (face veil). And a growing number of European countries have already passed or are well on the way to passing similar legislation.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who is promoting such a ban in his country, [...]
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Dear Senator Allen:
Thanks for publishing your oped in the Austin Capital Times to explain SB 1070, Arizona’s new immigration law. Frankly, I think some of the rhetoric applied to this new measure has managed to generate a lot of heat but not much light. Some of the knee-jerk Arizona-bashers among us just haven’t caught [...]
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Have you noticed that there seems to be a very high correlation between angry citizens in Arizona who favor a major seal-the-border surge to cut off entry for illegal immigrants, and the Tea Partiers who continue to grab the headlines by shouting at the government to get smaller and stay out of our lives?
But there’s [...]
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Reviews “In The Fullness of Time: 32 Women on Life After Fifty.” Edited by Emily W. Upham and Linda Gravenson. ATRIA paperback.
I have to admit, this is not my usual book. Generally I’m more comfortable with Sy Hersh or Jane Mayer or Tom Ricks or a history of the Supreme Court.
But this little volume turned [...]
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Feel Safer Now?
By Bill Fisher | Tuesday, April 6th, 2010
I write a lot of stories, news mostly. They’re carried by InterPress News Service. I’ve been doing this for a very long time, so I’m usually able to separate myself from what I’m writing about so I don’t get emotionally involved.
But there are those times when I find myself getting so angry over the subject [...]
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By William Fisher
As legal experts mull over the long-term implications of last week’s court decision declaring illegal the program of warrantless surveillance by the George W. Bush administration, attention now focuses on whether the Obama Justice Department will appeal the controversial ruling.
If it does, says the California lawyer who won last week’s landmark decision, “it [...]
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Post-Racial What?
By Bill Fisher | Thursday, March 25th, 2010
Just in case you’ve bought into the “post-racial” era of “Yes, We Can,” consider the plight of Zachari Klawonn.
Klawonn is an Army Specialist, the son of an American father and a Moroccan mother. He is 20 years old.
As told by The Washington Post, Klawonn was sitting in his barrack room when he heard a THUD. THUD. [...]
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It’s been a few days now since Benjamin Wittes and Jack Goldsmith wrote their op-ed in the Washington Post calling the trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed “dispensable” and proffering that “the politically draining fight about civilian vs….. military trials is not worth the costs.”
Their proposal: “Instead of expending great energy on a battle over the [...]
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Where is the Outrage?
By Bill Fisher | Saturday, February 20th, 2010
Last week, a federal judge ruled that the families of two men who died in detention at Guantanamo couldn’t sue the government because their imprisonment as enemy combatants had been approved by a Combat Review Status Tribunal — a CRST.
The same CRSTs the Supreme Court found “inadequate.”
Following a two-year investigation, the military concluded that the [...]
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