Tag Archives: Law and Rights

Perhaps we could take a preventative role this time, instead of just being around after the fact to count the bodies and mop up the blood.

Hope is in the eye of the beholder.

The question is, why should Canada continue to live up to its ends of the agreement?

This morning President Bush nominated White House counsel Harriet Miers, who has never served as a judge, to replace retiring Justice Sandra Day O’Connor on the Supreme Court. If confirmed by the Senate, Miers would join Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg as the second woman on the nation’s highest court and …

If there is hope of another option, a legal one, don't you think that most of them would rather go that route?

Miller Questions Answered With More Questions

Britain's Prime Minister wants a "complete change of thinking from innocent until proven guilty".

The UN human rights framework is a good place to start in making value judgments about cultural practices.

A police chief, it appears, has a tenuous grasp of "innocent until proven guilty", and the rule of law.

The fact that I'm forced to even consider using a weapon is disturbing, that I have no choice in the matter is only slightly mitigating.