What bothers me most is that if the very worst is true about the Gates incident then a law abiding black man was wrongfully arrested (without force) on a minor charge out of over-officiousness on the part of police, possibly motivated by bigotry and had his dignity greatly affronted. That isn't good, but it isn't Selma! The President of the US of A has to get involved?

Consider all the factors in selecting a new detention facility:
1. It needs to be in a remote, secure area to prevent escape and rescue attempts. An isolated military base for example.
2. It needs to be a state of the art facility to satisfy international human rights groups.
3. It needs to separate the detainees from regular civil prisoners to a) protect detainees from hardened criminals and b) prevent jihadist prostletizing of civil prisoners.
4. It needs special facilities for secure interogation.
5. While granting access to lawyers, media, etc., it needs to carefully control such access to prevent detaininees from communicating with terrorist organizations outside.
6. Provide a secure place for trials to prevent...

"Giving the enemy a timetable for withdrawing American troops while committing additional combat forces to a war zone is unprecedented. No commander in chief has done such a thing before -- because it makes no sense from a political or military perspective."

I must, in part, disagree. This has happened before. The Kaiser told his troops in August 1914 they "would be home before the leaves fell". Lincolns initial call up of troops in 1861 was only for 90 days (though, HE at least was wise enough to publically set a timetable for the war).

History shows such behavior is not unprecedented - mearly foolish and ingnorant.

One I can think of:
1. South Africa used to allow leopard hunting, with hunters paying a big fee to the owner of any private land they shot a leopard on. Ranchers would carefully note when a leopard was on their land, take measures to protect it, and tolerate the occaisional loss of livestock. Then they changed the law. No hunting, no fee to landowner, huge penalty for anyone killing a leopard. Ranchers would shoot them and bury the carcas. Leopard population plummeted.

Big Government liberalism has risen in tandem with female sufferage. In the US, the majority of women are Democrats.

The liberal theme is that, flawed as he was, he was a great legistlator. Let's look at that:
Major Accomplishments:
1. Trashed two good Supreme Court nominees. Invented "Borking".
2. The first round of imigration reform ( second is looming over us). Amnesty followed by enforcement. Illegal immigration has sky rocketed and we are still waiting for the enforcement.
3. Frustrated any meaningful and timely reform of Social Security.
4. Lead a presidential race insurgency against his own party. Republicans would probably have still won that year, but who knows?
5. Key driver behind FISA, limiting Government surveillance of foriegn subversion opperations. Then complained the Bush administrations could not connect the dots...

How, constitutionally, can the federal govt. restrict states from imposing regulatory requirements on insurance companies? How, constitutionally, can the federal govt. interfere with STATE courts to limit malpractice awards?

This is a Harvard Law Grad? This is a former president of the Harvard Law Review? This is a former law professor (lecturer, actually)?

It is a good thing this is NOT a military trial, it could be thrown out now!
One of the the key principles of military law is insulation of the system from command influence. For example: While prosecuters are part of a commander's staff, the defense lawyers and military judges are in a completely separate chain of command. Officers sitting on Courts Martials are chosen at random, like any jurors. Any attempt by a Commander to influence a court on verdict or sentence, no matter how indirect or casual, can be used by the defense to assert undue command influence. Clearly, if a Commander-in-Chief...

Some brave congressmen should form a "Presidential Advisor Confirmation Committee and hold hearings on all these Czars. They would have no legal impact and the Czars could not be forced to attend (though they could be invited to).

Saw his photo in Class A uniform. He is wearing a single ribbon "Army Service Ribbon" often derided by the troops as the "gay pride" ribbon for its rainbow color. Awarded to all graduates of basic training.
12 years in, a Major, and thats it! This guy was totaly lame.