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Shock, Relief for 9/11 Families at Gitmo

For seven years, Maureen Santora has waited to hear the words. But she hadn't expected them now, just moments after she took her seat in a special courtroom on the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base. "We want to enter our plea,"...

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December 9, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (19)

Facing Evil

Seven years ago on the morning of September 11th, the phone rang for Alice Hoagland. "Mom, this is Mark Bingham," said the young man, giving his mother his full name. "I'm on a flight from Newark to San Francisco. There...

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December 8, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (29)

Heart

It's a real distraction when your daughters are crying over a football game. It means you have to be a responsible adult -- no tears, limited profanity – and try to keep their focus on all that is good. And...

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December 6, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (5)

Obama's Citizenship and Alabama Football

Sharp readers of my last blog post will note what the court did NOT announce today. It granted two cases---in addition to the al-Marri "enemy combatant" case, it agreed to hear a case involving jury instructions. Conspicuously absent from the...

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December 5, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (15)

Court to hear Major Terrorism Case

The Washington Post's Bob Barnes and I have found more common ground: The Supreme Court has managed to distract us, momentarily, from our debate on whether Alabama can contain Tim Tebow or whether Florida will instead fold like Miami did...

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December 5, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (1)

From the Sublime to the Ridiculous

It pains me to have to do this, since I have vowed to write almost exclusively this week about Alabama football, but the legal challenge over Obama’s citizenship is now being so wildly misreported--and my bosses are asking about it—that...

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December 5, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (288)

Brawn, Tradition over Nouveau Glitz: A response to Barnes

Bob, First, thanks for saying I have my priorities straight. I hope you’ll vouch for me if my bosses here at ABC ask why I am writing almost exclusively these days about Alabama football. (I’ll do the same for you...

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December 5, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (1)

Dissing the Bear's Legend, too?

If you thought I was joking about the heated debate I was having with the Washington Post’s Bob Barnes yesterday, well, I wasn’t. (I also wasn't joking that everything I write this week will have some connection to the Crimson...

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December 4, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (3)

Free Plaxico Burress

Cato’s David Koppel has an interesting piece in today’s WSJ suggesting New York Giants star Plaxico Burress’s arrest for carrying a handgun into a New York nightclub violates his 2nd Amendment right to keep and bear arms. For those of...

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December 4, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (4)

Third and Long for Philip Morris?

With great effort, I turned my focus off Alabama football and went up to the Supreme Court this morning for what turned out to be some pretty incredible arguments in a long-fought case involving a $79.5 million punitive damages award...

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December 3, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (3)