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article: HENTOFF COLUMN: The man of the century
With the United Nations continually and abysmally failing to stop monstrous heads of state around the world from committing atrocities against their own people, at least one man - Luis Moreno-Ocampo, chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court - has come forward to make all of us confront the genocidal end of civilization in the nation of Sudan.
Posted in Opinion, Hentoff on Friday, July 25, 2008 11:15 pm.
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article: HENTOFF COLUMN: McCain’s great British import
For years, one of C-Span's most riveting regular programs is "Prime Minister's Questions," during which the head of the reigning political party faces criticisms of his government's policies and failures from members of the House of Commons. What fascinates those of us Americans who watch is direct democracy in action, not unlike our town meetings of yore where local officials could not hide.
Posted in News, Opinion, Hentoff on Friday, August 8, 2008 6:00 pm.
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article: HENTOFF COLUMN: Rejecting Bush's rule of law
When U.S. District Judge James Robertson cleared the way for the Guantanamo Bay trial by a military commission of Salim Ahmed Hamdan - the first American war-crimes trial since World War II - he said: "The eyes of the world are on Guantanamo Bay. Justice must be done there, and must be seen to be done there fairly and impartially." (Los Angeles Times, Aug. 4).
Posted in Hentoff, Opinion on Friday, August 15, 2008 10:00 pm.
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article: HENTOFF COLUMN: Keep human rights at trials
During the extensive coverage of the Bush administration's basic defeat in the so-called war crimes trial of Salim Hamdan, Attorney General Michael Mukasey was spared any mention of his June 4 assurance, before an audience of federal judges, that the forthcoming military commissions would be "in the best tradition of the American legal system."
Posted in Hentoff, Opinion on Friday, August 22, 2008 10:00 pm.
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article: HENTOFF COLUMN: Preserving the Bush legacy
In his last months, the president is working to ensure that his successor, whomever that may be, will have the greatly expanded power of the executive branch (unprecedented in American history) that Bush instituted after 9/11. Bush's current chief enabler in this ever-increasing surveillance of American citizens in our daily lives is Attorney General Michael Mukasey.
Posted in Hentoff, Columns on Friday, August 29, 2008 9:00 pm. Updated: 3:44 pm.
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article: HENTOFF COLUMN: Brandeis University dishonors its name
For years, I have reported on many cases of college and university administrators infected with "political correctness," punishing students and faculty members for allegedly prejudicial and otherwise "offensive" remarks - as if there were a constitutional right not to be offended. I have now found the most outrageous case of all.
Posted in Hentoff, Columns, Opinion on Friday, September 26, 2008 9:35 pm.
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article: HENTOFF COLUMN: My tortured vote for president
The cold fact that Barack Obama voted four separate times in the Illinois state legislature to deny care to a baby born alive after a botched abortion makes him the most repugnant candidate I will have ever voted for. I am pro-life; but whenever I'm asked my religion, I always answer: "the Constitution" (as my writing for some 60 years has shown). I admire much about John McCain, and especially Sarah Palin, but neither is up to the enormous challenge, as world terrorism continues, of restoring the Constitution - our Excalibur sword for generations ahead.
Posted in Opinion, Hentoff on Friday, October 3, 2008 11:05 pm.
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article: HENTOFF COLUMN: Exploring McCain’s torture view
During the widely seen and analyzed premier presidential debate, Barack Obama was grossly mistaken when, toward the end, he said: "I give Senator McCain great credit on the torture issue, for having identified that as something that undermines our long-term security - because of those things, we, I think, are going to have a lot of work to do in the next administration to restore that sense that America is that shining beacon on a hill." Our torture has shamed us.
Posted in Hentoff, Columns, Opinion on Friday, October 10, 2008 9:20 pm.
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article: HENTOFF COLUMN: J. Edgar Hoover lives on
Even in its final weeks, the Bush administration continues its war on our civil liberties. On Dec. 1, Bush ultra-loyalist Attorney General Michael Mukasey will put into effect his new expanded "Guidelines for Domestic FBI Operations." To search for any possibilities of terrorist activities, the FBI can now conduct "threat assessments" - in plain language, investigations - on individuals and organizations without any specific evidence of wrongdoing.
Posted in Hentoff, Columns, Opinion on Friday, October 24, 2008 11:40 pm.
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article: HENTOFF COLUMN: What happened to Joe Biden?
Candidates for higher office are indeed tested - if they win - from Day One. But the credibility of their declared principles is sometimes tested suddenly and revealingly on the campaign trail.
Posted in Hentoff, Opinion on Friday, November 7, 2008 9:00 pm. Updated: 2:18 pm.
