If you haven’t already read it, check out William Saletan’s fantasy of the questions he’d ask Judge Alito, were he a Senator. I especially liked the last third or half, which shows how an ideological judge can use selective quoting – and selective blindness to the substance of past precedents – to apply his ideology while maintaining a surface of impartiality.
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@Watcher: I meant that as agreement to your statement, "What I doubt is that it was anywhere near complete, let…
"The number is more like 72 years, since the US and the UK overthrew an elected government and replaced it…
"They certainly were working on one at some point, I don’t think anybody doubts that..." But not for many years.…
"No, we have not barely stopped Iran from getting nukes by bombing them multiple times. " I'm not sure if…
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Oh! Well then, thank you for clarifying, and sorry to be a bit defensive.