The above quote from Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland was evoked by a judge in the first decision since the US Supreme Court ruled that Guantanamo Bay prisoners should have recourse to civil courts. The court said:
First, the government suggests that several of the assertions in the intelligence documents are reliable because they are made in at [...]
In an interview to the Associated Press on board the flight back from Khanty-Mansiisk president Ilves explains why he walked out of the Fenno-Ugric Congress, and gives his thoughts on Russian developments. Nice balanced reporting from the AP, including the final quote from Jose Manuel Barroso, the president of the European Commission:
“The EU is completely against all [...]
I have succumbed to temptation and written another article, this time on the arguments against compulsory military service. It is basically a condensed overview of some of the arguments against conscription, the main one being that it has a much bigger price for Estonia than proponents of it would like to show. It sparked debate, [...]
I wrote an article on the Irish No vote to EU, in which I make the rather unpopular argument that EU treaty modifications are so complex that they are not suitable for referenda. The Irish no-vote is an indirect consequence of the 1987 decision by the Irish Supreme Court, requiring Ireland to always put all EU [...]
Barack Obama on the Family
Barack Obama proves again that nobody can do great speeches like him. Simple, eloquent and persuasive.
Yesterday was Friday 13th, so naturally some things had to go wrong: in a global scale the Irish said no to the Lisbon Treaty, but in my personal level my MacBook Pro refused to show any video (the screen was completely blank). At the local Mac service I was told it was the motherboard which [...]
It appears that the best hope for a more integrated Europe has gone. The Lisbon Treaty, already a Plan B after the failure of the Constitutional Treaty has been rejected by the voters in Ireland, the only country where a referendum was held. It is a sad day for Europe, as it appears there is [...]
The Boumediene v. Bush decision of the US Supreme Court is an interesting read for anyone interested in Constitutional law, common law in general, the principle of checks and balances etc. Regarding the history of habeas corpus:
Even so, from an early date it was understood that the King, too, was subject to the law. As the writers said [...]
So in 2008, the age of Googling, social networking and the emergence of more Web based services, the Republican party has nominated as its candidate for the President of the United States of America a person who does not know how to use a computer. He could not get hired in any other high-profile job [...]
One of the best concerts I have been to. I am not a particular fan of Massive Attack, but the new show is impressive.
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