Birds of a feather flock together.
What's good for the goose is good for the gander:
Joseph Rosenbloom is a contributing editor at The American Prospect.
"The American Prospect was founded in 1990 as an authoritative magazine of liberal ideas, committed to a just society, an enriched democracy, and effective ..."
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One of the lessons of Vietnam was that a sharply divided nation should never take on armed conflict. That's why the framers gave Congress, not the president, power to declare war. Conservatives are fond of invoking the wisdom of the "original intent" of the framers of the Constitution. This is one case where we have a pretty clear idea of both what that original intent was and what it requires of the executive branch today. Bush may claim to be a constitutional originalist -- but evidently, when war is at stake, he is a selective one.
The July 2004 edition of The American Prospect features a special section on capital punishment with articles by some of the nation's most respected experts on the topic. "Reasonable Doubts: A Special Report on the Death Penalty" examines the growing movement to reform or abolish capital punishment in America. Among the topics examined are public opinion, innocence, race, and the death penalty for juveniles. The series also provides a closer look at the death penalty in states such as Illinois and Texas, and offers an overview of the Supreme Court's recent decisions on the death penalty. The authors included are: Anthony Amsterdam, Hugo Bedau, Christina Swarns, Tom Lowenstein, Sasha Abramsky, Jean Templeton, Joseph Rosenbloom, and Connie de la Vega.
People who use irrelevancies about people's political and religious beliefs as defeaters on other issues make themselves fair game to receive the same.
Cordially,