Ryan J. Reilly reports on some frustrating news for re-entry advocates — the Office of the Inspector General found that the systems for evaluating whether or not the programs receiving federal grant money are actually effective in reducing recidivism: According to the report, the Inspector General’s office could not determine if Office of Justice Program […]
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No One Could Have Predicted, Military Commissions Edition.
Chisun Lee: Decisions on two legal challenges to the Guantanamo military commissions system, both expected this summer, could undo half the convictions won so far before the tribunals and disrupt a number of pending cases. The appeals of two 2008 convictions attack several core aspects of the young trial system. One potentially explosive argument is […]
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A Better NAACP?
North Carolina State University Professor Blair Kelley addresses the role of the NAACP in contemporary times, a question I tried to grapple with in my profile of Ben Jealous last year: Throughout the group’s history, the real strength of the NAACP’s organizational base has come from the work of local chapters, everyday people who used […]
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What Happened To Abdul Aziz Naji?
Abdul Aziz Naji was a detainee at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp who was involuntarily transferred home to Algeria last week after seven years in custody. Why “involuntarily?” He didn’t want to leave Gitmo, not because it was awesome, but because he was worried about being tortured or killed when he returned home. Yesterday, his […]
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Fallout.
Jill Filipovic on “rape by deception.” Oh what, you didn’t know Tucker Carlson wanted to join Journolist before he started trying to smear everyone on it? I’m pretty sure that Steve King thinks the existence of black people is racist. Noah Millman thinks that the Shirley Sherrod incident has turned out well for Obama.
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Tucker Carlson Surrenders.
Last year at the Conservative Political Action Committee conference, Tucker Carlson was booed for suggesting that conservative media outlets should be more like the New York Times–that their reporters “go out, and they get the facts.” The Daily Caller, as a project, was meant to be a substantive outlet for right-leaning, but authentic journalism. With […]
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Conservative Racial Victimhood, Ctd.
This is an exchange between Fox and Friends Co-Hosts Alisyn Camerota and Steve Doocy on Shirley Sherrod, the day before Andrew Breitbart‘s truncated video clip was revealed to have shown the opposite of what actually occurred: Camerota: She admits there that because the farmer was white, she doesn’t extend her full helping hand to him, […]
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Potts On Douthat.
Monica Potts sat down and read the study Ross Douthat cited in his New York Times op-ed that led him to the conclusion that “the gatekeepers of elite education seem to incline against candidates who seem too stereotypically rural or right-wing or “Red America.” Potts spoke to one of the authors and ultimately found a […]
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Imitation Is The Sincerest Form Of Flattery.
A few months ago, I wrote that Andy McCarthy had crafted a “perfect mission statement for the torture wing of the GOP,” in response to his argument against building the Islamic Center near Ground Zero that “in Mecca and Medina, there are not only no Christian churches, no synagogues, there are no non-Muslims, they’re closed […]
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Dems Folding On Gitmo.
There are a couple of things to think about in regards to Steny Hoyer‘s Gitmo cynicism. The first is that closing Gitmo, like passing health-care reform, is not something the president can do through sheer force of will. The second is that the complete lack of urgency in attempting to close Gitmo, from the administration […]
