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Date |
Title |
| 1 |
04/04/11 |
Getting Started |
| 2 |
04/04/11 |
My Political Philosophy |
| 3 |
04/05/11 |
Adventures of a History Detective |
| 4 |
04/06/11 |
The Abominable Rules of the U.S. Senate |
| 5 |
04/06/11 |
Jesus on the Rich and the Poor |
| 6 |
04/06/11 |
Dr. Rev. Anna Carter Florence’s “Preaching as Testimony” |
| 7 |
04/06/11 |
Reflections on Pre-Law Education |
| 8 |
04/06/11 |
My Christian Faith |
| 9 |
04/06/11 |
Minneapolis’ Westminster Presbyterian Church |
| 10 |
04/08/11 |
Former U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Supports U.N. Security Council on Libya |
| 11 |
04/09/11 |
Unfortunate Ecuador-U.S. Diplomatic Spat |
| 12 |
04/11/11 |
Tip for Grandparents |
| 13 |
04/14/11 |
Lawyering on Wall Street |
| 14 |
04/16/11 |
Encounters with Candidates JFK and LBJ |
| 15 |
04/17/11 |
Questioning President Lyndon Johnson |
| 16 |
04/18/11 |
Lawyering in Minneapolis |
| 17 |
04/20/11 |
The Parable of the Prodigal Son and His Older Brother |
| 18 |
04/20/11 |
Ruminations on Lawyering |
| 19 |
04/22/11 |
Retiring from Lawyering |
| 20 |
04/22/11 |
Superior Elementary Education |
| 21 |
04/23/11 |
My First Ten Years of Retirement |
| 22 |
04/26/11 |
International Criminal Justice: Introduction |
| 23 |
04/27/11 |
The Roads Not Taken |
| 24 |
04/28/11 |
The International Criminal Court: Introduction |
| 25 |
04/28/11 |
The International Criminal Court: Investigations and Prosecutions |
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| 26 |
05/04/11 |
No to Constitutional Amendment on Taxes |
| 27 |
05/08/11 |
The International Criminal Court: Libya Investigation Status |
| 28 |
05/10/11 |
Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Mattie Stepanek and Five Judges |
| 29 |
05/11/11 |
The International Criminal Court and the Clinton Administration |
| 30 |
05/12/11 |
The International Criminal Court and the G. W. Bush Administration |
| 31 |
05/13/11 |
The International Criminal Court and the Obama Administration |
| 32 |
05/15/11 |
The International Criminal Court: The Crime of Aggression |
| 33 |
05/16/11 |
The International Criminal Court: Three Libyan Arrest Warrants Sought |
| 34 |
05/17/11 |
Oxford in New York City |
| 35 |
05/17/11 |
The International Criminal Court: Investigation of Gang-Rape in Libya |
| 36 |
05/18/11 |
Dinner at an Oxford High Table |
| 37 |
05/19/11 |
Dr. Rev. Anna Carter Florence’s “Skinny-Dip Sermon” |
| 38 |
05/20/11 |
Dr. Rev. Anna Carter Florence’s “Changing Your Mind” |
| 39 |
05/20/11 |
The Ridiculous U.S. Designation of Cuba as a “State Sponsor of Terrorism” |
| 40 |
05/20/11 |
Two Women “Shakers” Rock Minneapolis Dinner |
| 41 |
05/21/11 |
The U.S. Should Pursue Reconciliation with Cuba |
| 42 |
05/22/11 |
The Sanctuary Movement Case |
| 43 |
05/23/11 |
The International Criminal Court: Prosecutor Seeks To Open Investigation of Ivory Coast |
| 44 |
05/24/11 |
Becoming a Pro Bono Asylum Lawyer |
| 45 |
05/25/11 |
My Pilgrimage to El Salvador, April 1989 |
| 46 |
05/26/11 |
A Sabbatical Leave from Lawyering |
| 47 |
05/27/11 |
International Criminal Justice: Mladic To Face Charges at ICTY |
| 48 |
05/28/11 |
International Criminal Justice: The International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals |
| 49 |
05/28/11 |
A Liberal Arts Seminar for Lawyers |
| 50 |
05/29/11 |
Celebrating Oxford’s Worcester College’s 700th Anniversary |
| 51 |
05/30/11 |
Celebrating 80th Anniversary of Rhodes Scholarships |
| 52 |
05/31/11 |
The Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Litigation |
| 53 |
05/31/11 |
International Criminal Justice: Spanish Court Issues Criminal Arrest Warrants for Salvadoran Murders of Jesuit Priests |
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| 54 |
06/01/11 |
International Criminal Justice: Mladic Update |
| 55 |
06/02/11 |
International Criminal Justice: The Salvadoran Murders of the Jesuit Priests |
| 56 |
06/06/11 |
Reading PPE at Oxford |
| 57 |
06/07/11 |
International Criminal Justice: Salvadoran Military’s Attempted Cover-Up of Its Committing the Murders of the Jesuit Priests |
| 58 |
06/08/11 |
International Criminal Justice: Salvadoran Criminal Prosecution of the Murders of the Jesuit Priests |
| 59 |
06/09/11 |
International Criminal Justice: The Jesuits Case in The Truth Commission for El Salvador |
| 60 |
06/10/11 |
PPE Examinations at Oxford |
| 61 |
06/11/11 |
International Criminal Justice: El Salvador’s General Amnesty Law and Its Impact on the Jesuits Case |
| 62 |
06/13/11 |
International Criminal Justice: The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights’ Case Regarding the Jesuit Priests |
| 63 |
06/14/11 |
El Salvador’s General Amnesty Law in U.S. Federal Court Cases |
| 64 |
06/15/11 |
International Criminal Justice: Spanish Court’s Case Regarding the Salvadoran Murders of the Jesuit Priests |
| 65 |
06/16/11 |
The Current Controversy Over El Salvador’s General Amnesty Law and Supreme Court |
| 66 |
06/17/11 |
International Criminal Court: ICC Prosecutor Updates U.N. Security Council on Sudan (Darfur) |
| 67 |
06/18/11 |
International Criminal Justice: Winding Down Two Ad Hoc Criminal Tribunals |
| 68 |
06/18/11 |
The International Criminal Court: Possible U.N. Security Council Referral of Syrian Human Rights Abuses to ICC |
| 69 |
06/20/11 |
Oxford’s Lord Franks |
| 70 |
06/21/11 |
Celebrating the Rhodes Scholarships Centennial |
| 71 |
06/22/11 |
International Criminal Justice: U.S. Reportedly Failed To Detain Rwandan Indictee of Spanish Court |
| 72 |
06/23/11 |
The International Criminal Court: Basics of Its Upcoming Judicial Election |
| 73 |
06/24/11 |
The International Criminal Court: Specified and Recommendation Qualifications for ICC Judges |
| 74 |
06/25/11 |
The International Criminal Court: Its Upcoming Prosecutor Election |
| 75 |
06/27/11 |
The International Criminal Court: Issuance of Libyan Arrest Warrants and Other Developments |
| 76 |
06/28/11 |
Minnesota’s Federal Court |
| 77 |
06/29/11 |
Practitioner in Residence |
| 78 |
06/30/11 |
Auditing the International Human Rights Law Course |
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| 79 |
07/01/11 |
Teaching the International Human Rights Law Course |
| 80 |
07/02/11 |
Supporting International Criminal Justice and the International Criminal Court |
| 81 |
07/04/11 |
International Criminal Justice: Libya, Sudan, Rwanda and Serbia Developments |
| 82 |
07/07/11 |
Refugee and Asylum Law: Pre-Modern Era |
| 83 |
07/09/11 |
Refugee and Asylum Law: Modern Era |
| 84 |
07/09/11 |
Alien Tort Statute: Important Cases Heading to U.S. Supreme Court |
| 85 |
07/10/11 |
Refugee and Asylum Law: Office of U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees |
| 86 |
07/11/11 |
The Washington Semester |
| 87 |
07/21/11 |
Blogging in Havana |
| 88 |
07/22/11 |
Passionate, Committed Political Leadership |
| 89 |
07/23/11 |
Disgusting U.S. Political Scene |
| 90 |
07/25/11 |
Westminster Town Hall Forum |
| 91 |
07/26/11 |
Westminster Town Hall Forum: Krista Tippett |
| 92 |
07/27/11 |
Westminster Town Hall Forum: Marcus Borg |
| 93 |
07/28/11 |
The Founder of Modern Conservatism’s Perspective on the Current U.S. Political Turmoil |
| 94 |
07/29/11 |
A Message for Speaker Boehner |
| 95 |
07/30/11 |
Dysfunctional U.S. Congress Careens Towards U.S. Default |
| 96 |
07/30/11 |
The IBM Antitrust Litigation |
| 97 |
07/31/11 |
Minneapolis Police’s Pretextual Arrests of Political Dissidents in 1970 |
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| 98 |
08/01/11 |
Buying Banks and Selling Hot Dogs Are the Same Under the Law |
| 99 |
08/02/11 |
The Lutheran Pastor at the 1973 Siege of Wounded Knee |
| 100 |
08/02/11 |
Dysfunctional U.S. Congress Averts Default |
| 101 |
08/03/11 |
U.S. Litigation Over a Russian Real Estate Project |
| 102 |
08/04/11 |
Ted Turner’s Superstation in the Crosshairs |
| 103 |
08/05/11 |
Westminster Town Hall Forum: Fall 2011 Speakers |
| 104 |
08/06/11 |
Downgrading the U.S. Credit Rating |
| 104A |
08/07/11 |
Comment on Downgrading the U.S. Credit Rating[Comment to 9/29/11 post] |
| 104B |
08/08/11 |
Comment: Additional Credit Ratings Downgrades by S&P [Comment to 8/6/11 post] |
| 105 |
08/07/11 |
A “Virtual” Constitutional Convention |
| 106 |
08/08/11 |
The Personal Jurisdiction Requirement for U.S. Civil Lawsuits |
| 106A |
08/11/11 |
Comment: Another Victory for Foreign Client [Comment to 8/8/11 post] |
| 107 |
08/09/11 |
Resolving Disputes between Manufacturers and Distributors/Dealers |
| 108 |
08/10/11 |
Selecting a College |
| 109 |
08/11/11 |
International Commercial Dispute Resolution |
| 110 |
08/12/11 |
Battling Australian and Wisconsin Courts |
| 111 |
08/13/11 |
Star Pagination of Legal Materials |
| 112 |
08/14/11 |
Honorary Degree |
| 113 |
08/15/11 |
Silver Bullion and Underground Homes |
| 114 |
08/16/11 |
Artificial Insemination of Cattle |
| 115 |
08/17/11 |
The Flight Transportation Corporation Litigation |
| 116 |
08/18/11 |
Intraocular Lenses Litigation |
| 117 |
08/19/11 |
International Criminal Court: Protection of Witnesses |
| 118 |
08/20/11 |
International Criminal Justice: Other International Criminal Tribunals |
| 119 |
08/21/11 |
U.S. Repeats Its Ridiculous Designation of Cuba as a “State Sponsor of Terrorism |
| 120 |
08/22/11 |
International Criminal Court: Potential Arrests of Three Libyan Suspects |
| 121 |
08/23/11 |
Growing Up in a Small Iowa Town |
| 122 |
08/24/11 |
International Criminal Court: ICC’s First Trial To End This Week |
| 123 |
08/25/11 |
Employers’ Lawsuits Against Former Employees |
| 124 |
08/26/11 |
International Criminal Justice: Developments in Spanish Court’s Case Regarding the Salvadoran Murders of the Jesuit Priests |
| 124A |
08/28/11 |
Comment: Salvadoran Supreme Court’s Decision on INTERPOL RED NOTICE Was Erroneous [Comment to 8/26/11 post] |
| 125 |
08/27/11 |
My Grinnell College Years |
| 126 |
08/29/11 |
Sailing to Oxford |
| 127 |
08/30/11 |
My Oxford University Years |
| 128 |
08/31/11 |
Chosen To Be a Rhodes Scholar |
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| 129 |
09/02/11 |
Memory and Human Rights: Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula |
| 130 |
09/09/11 |
International Criminal Court: ICC Prosecutor Seeking INTERPOL Red Notice for Gaddafi |
| 131 |
09/24/11 |
Commutation and Release of Convicted “Spies” |
| 132 |
09/27/11 |
Roots of Hope for U.S.-Cuba Relations |
| 132A |
09/28/11 |
Cuban Foreign Minister Attacks U.S. Policies [Comment to 9/27/11 post] |
| 133 |
09/29/11 |
President Obama Is Wrong on Cuba |
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| 134 |
10/03/11 |
International Criminal Court: Investigation of Ivory Coast Is Authorized |
| 135 |
10/05/11 |
Oscar Romero, A Saint for All People and All Time |
| 136 |
10/06/11 |
Oscar Romero’s Opposition |
| 137 |
10/07/11 |
Oscar Romero’s Last Homily |
| 138 |
10/08/11 |
Oscar Romero’s Assassination |
| 139 |
10/09/11 |
Oscar Romero’s Funeral |
| 140 |
10/10/11 |
Oscar Romero’s Tomb |
| 141 |
10/11/11 |
Litigation Against Conspirators in the Assassination of Oscar Romero |
| 142 |
10/12/11 |
The Abominable Rules of the U.S. Senate Are Modified |
| 143 |
10/13/11 |
The Oscar Romero Assassination Case in the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights |
| 144 |
10/14/11 |
Remembering Oscar Romero in Music |
| 145 |
10/14/11 |
U.S. and Cuba Discuss Exchange of Prisoners |
| 142A |
10/14/11 |
Wall Street Journal Criticizes Senate Vote on Chinese Currency Bill [Comment to 10/12/11 post] |
| 146 |
10/15/11 |
Remembering Oscar Romero in Film |
| 145A |
10/15/11 |
Comment: Cuban-Americans in Congress Criticize U.S. Willingness To Discuss Issues with Cuba [Comment to 10/14/11 post] |
| 133A |
10/15/11 |
Obama and Romney Out of Touch on Cuba [Comment to 9/29/11 post] |
| 147 |
10/16/11 |
Remembering Oscar Romero in Art |
| 142B |
10/16/11 |
Comment: New York Times Criticizes Chinese Currency Bill [Comment to 10/12/11 post] |
| 148 |
10/17/11 |
Remembering Oscar Romero in Books |
| 149 |
10/17/11 |
U.S. Supreme Court To Hear Cases Challenging Whether Corporations Can Be Held Liable for Aiding and Abetting Foreign Human Rights Violations |
| 150 |
10/18/11 |
Remembering Oscar Romero at Westminster Abbey |
| 151 |
10/18/11 |
Perryite Laments Misuse of His Hometown by Michelle Bachmann |
| 152 |
10/19/11 |
Annual Anniversaries for Oscar Romero |
| 153 |
10/21/11 |
The Alien Tort Statute, 1789–1979 |
| 154 |
10/23/11 |
U.S. Circuit Court’s 1980 Decision Vindicates Use of Alien Tort Statute To Hold Foreign Human Rights Violators Accountable |
| 155 |
10/25/11 |
The Alien Tort Statute, 1980-2004 |
| 156 |
10/25/11 |
International Criminal Court: Four People Recommended for Election as ICC Prosecutor |
| 157 |
10/25/11 |
U.N. General Assembly Again Condemns U.S. Embargo of Cuba |
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| 158 |
11/09/11 |
Alien Tort Statute Interpreted by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2004 |
| 159 |
11/11/11 |
Former Salvadoran Generals Held Liable by U.S. Courts for $54.6 Million for Failure To Stop Torture |
| 160 |
11/13/11 |
Former Salvadoran Vice-Minister of Defense Held Liable by U.S. Courts for $6 Million for Torture and Extrajudicial Killing |
| 161 |
11/14/11 |
The Alien Tort Statute, 2004-Present |
| 162 |
11/16/11 |
International Criminal Court: Recent Developments in ICC’s Libyan Investigation and Cases |
| 163 |
11/18/11 |
International Criminal Court: Recent Developments in Other ICC Investigations and Cases |
| 162A |
11/19/11 |
Comment: Saif Al-Islam Qaddafi Is Arrested [Comment to 11/16/11 post] |
| 163A |
11/20/11 |
Comment: U.S. Military Forces To Remain in Uganda [Comment to 11/18/11 post] |
| 164 |
11/20/11 |
International Criminal Court: Recent Developments in ICC Proposed Investigations |
| 162B |
11/20/11 |
Comment: Abdullah al-Senussi Arrested [Comment to 11/16/11 post] |
| 162C |
11/21/11 |
Comment: Options for Trials of Seif Qaddifi and Senussi [Comment to 11/16/11 post] |
| 41A |
11/21/11 |
Comment: Additional Support for U.S.-Cuba Reconciliation [Comment to 5/21/11 post] |
| 162D |
11/22/11 |
Comment: ICC Prosecutor and Deputy Prosecutor in Libya To Discuss Future Trials [Comment to 11/16/11 post] |
| 165 |
11/22/11 |
International Criminal Court: New States Parties, Judges and Prosecutor |
| 166 |
11/23/11 |
Developments in El Salvador Cases before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights |
| 162E |
11/23/11 |
Comment: ICC Prosecutor Reports on Libyan Discussions [Comment to 11/16/11 post] |
| 162F |
11/24/11 |
Comment: ICC Pre-Trial Chamber Disagrees with ICC Prosecutor Over Libyan Trials [Comment to 11/16/11 post] |
| 167 |
11/26/11 |
Important Foreign Sovereign Immunities Case |
| 165A |
11/28/11 |
Comment: List of Possible New ICC Prosecutor Is Narrowed to Two People [Comment to 11/22/11 post] |
| 168 |
11/29/11 |
The Multilateral Treaty Against Torture |
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| 169 |
12/01/11 |
U.S. Ratification of the Multilateral Treaty Against Torture |
| 165B |
12/01/11 |
Comment: Consensus on New ICC Prosecutor [Comment to 11/22/11 post] |
| 163B |
12/02/11 |
Comment: ICC Prosecutor Seeks Arrest Warrant for Sudanese Official [Comment to 11/18/11 post] |
| 163C |
12/02/11 |
Comment: Former Ivory Coast President in ICC Custody [Comment to 11/18/11 post] |
| 119A |
12/02/11 |
Comment: Call for Cancelling U.S. Designation of Cuba as “State Sponsor of Terrorism” [Comment to 8/21/11 post] |
| 164A |
12/02/11 |
Comment: U.N. Human Rights Commissioner Calls for Security Council Referral of Syria to ICC [Comment to 11/20/11 post] |
| 170 |
12/02/11 |
Supplement to the Multilateral Treaty Against Torture |
| 171 |
12/03/11 |
Spain Requests Extradition of Suspects in Jesuits Case |
| 172 |
12/05/11 |
First U.S. Report to Committee Against Torture |
| 87A |
12/05/11 |
Comment: Yoani Sanchez Named One of Top 100 “Global Thinkers” [Comment to 7/21/11 post] |
| 173 |
12/06/11 |
Universal Jurisdiction for the Most Serious Crimes |
| 174 |
12/08/11 |
U.S. Second Report to Committee Against Torture |
| 175 |
12/10/11 |
The Torture Victims Protection Act |
| 133B |
12/10/11 |
Comment: Church Leaders Call for U.S.-Cuba Reconciliation [Comment to 9/29/11 post] |
| 176 |
12/12/11 |
The Four American Churchwomen of El Salvador |
| 177 |
12/14/11 |
The December 1980 Murders of the Four American Churchwomen in El Salvador |
| 164B |
12/14/11 |
Comment: U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Urges U.N. Security Council to Refer Syrian Situation to ICC [Comment to 11/20/11 post] |
| 178 |
12/15/11 |
International Criminal Court: New ICC Prosecutor Elected |
| 179 |
12/16/11 |
Non-Judicial investigations of the 1980 Murders of the Four Churchwomen in El Salvador |
| 180 |
12/17/11 |
International Criminal Court: Six New judges Elected |
| 181 |
12/18/11 |
Salvadoran Judicial Investigation and Prosecution of National Guardsmen for the Murders of the American Churchwomen |
| 182 |
12/19/11 |
Salvadoran Truth Commission’s Investigation of the Murders of the American Churchwomen |
| 67A |
12/19/11 |
Comment: Continued Problems in Winding Down the Ad Hoc Criminal Tribunals [Comment to 6/18/11 post] |
| 183 |
12/20/11 |
TVPA Lawsuit in U.S. Federal Court Over Murders of American Churchwomen in El Salvador |
| 66A |
12/20/11 |
Comment: ICC Prosecutor Updates U.N. Security Council on Investigation of Sudan (Darfur) [Comment to 6/17/11 post] |
| 184 |
12/21/11 |
Pilgrimage to American Churchwomen Sites in El Salvador |
| 185 |
12/23/11 |
The Joy of Blogging |
| 186 |
12/24/11 |
Merry Christmas |
| 187 |
12/27/11 |
My Years at the University of Chicago Law School |
| 188 |
12/28/11 |
Accounting for Horses, Cattle and Catfish |
| 189 |
12/29/11 |
Former President of Mexico Is Sued in U.S. Federal Court for Alleged Human Rights Violations |
| 190 |
12/30/11 |
The Cuban Revolution and Religion |
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| 191 |
01/01/12 |
International Law Regarding Religious Freedom |
| 192 |
01/02/12 |
2011 Annual Report on dwkcommentaries |
| 193 |
01/05/12 |
U.S. Government’s Opinions on Religious Freedom in Cuba |
| 87B |
01/06/12 |
Comment: Yoani Sanchez Pleas to Brazilian President To Help Her Get Out of Cuba [Comment to 7/21/11 post] |
| 194 |
01/08/12 |
Cuban Religious Freedom According to the U.S. Commission on Assistance to a Free Cuba |
| 162G |
01/09/12 |
Comment: Sif Qaddafi Still in Custody in Libya [Comment to 11/16/11 post] |
| 189A |
01/10/12 |
Comment: Former President of Mexico’s Dismissal Motion [Comment to 12/29/11 post] |
| 195 |
01/11/12 |
Words of Wisdom from a History Professor |
| 196 |
01/15/12 |
Racing to Court for Sports Car Racing |
| 197 |
01/15/12 |
Litigating Against Scientology |
| 198 |
01/17/12 |
A Tribute to James de Jong |
| 162H |
01/18/12 |
Comment: Unresolved Issues for Any Attempt by Libya To Prosecute Two Individuals under ICC Arrest Warrants [Comment to 11/16/11 post] |
| 199 |
01/20/12 |
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Issues Important Decision on Judicial Independence |
| 119B |
01/20/12 |
Comment: Another Voice Says U.S. Designation of Cuba a “State Sponsor of Terrorism” Is Fraudulent [Comment to 8/21/11 post] |
| 200 |
01/21/12 |
Spain Invokes Universal Jurisdiction for Three Criminal Cases Against U.S. Officials for Alleged Torture |
| 201 |
01/23/12 |
Spain’s Criminal Case Over Alleged U.S. Torture of Detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba |
| 202 |
01/25/12 |
Spain’s Criminal Case Against Authors of U.S. Legal Memoranda Allegedly Justifying Torture |
| 87C |
01/26/12 |
Comment: Brazil Grants Visa to Cuban Blogger[Comment to 7/21/11 post] |
| 203 |
01/28/12 |
Spain’s Criminal Case Over Alleged U.S. Killing of Spanish Journalist in Iraq |
| 204 |
01/31/12 |
Alleged Interference with Spanish Judicial Process by U.S. and Spanish Officials |
| 87D |
01/31/12 |
Comment: Brazil’s President Has No Comment on Whether Cuba Should Grant an Exit Visa to Cuban Blogger [Comment to 7/21/11 post] |
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| 205 |
02/07/12 |
Spain’s Criminal Cases Against Spanish Judge Baltasar Garzon |
| 206 |
02/09/12 |
Judge Garzon Convicted in Case Involving Bugging of Attorney-Client Communications |
| 201A |
02/09/12 |
Comment: Details of U.S. Torture of Guantanamo Bay Detainee Submitted to Spanish Court [Comment to 1/23/12 post] |
| 207 |
02/10/12 |
Reactions to Judge Garzon’s Conviction |
| 208 |
02/11/12 |
Additional Reactions to Judge Garzon’s Conviction |
| 171A |
02/12/12 |
Comment: Ex-Salvadoran Military Officer Indicted for Alleged Violations of U.S. Immigration Laws [Comment to 12/3/11 post] |
| 209 |
02/13/12 |
Dismissal of Spanish Criminal Case Against Judge Baltasar Garzon for Alleged Bribery |
| 210 |
02/14/12 |
Commentary on Spanish Criminal Cases Against Judge Baltasar Garzon |
| 211 |
02/18/12 |
The Persistence of the Inquisition |
| 212 |
02/20/12 |
Is Chad Harbach’s “The Art of Fielding” a Great Novel? |
| 213 |
02/21/12 |
Update to Reactions to Spanish Criminal Cases Against Judge Garzon |
| 213A |
02/23/12 |
Comment: Further Developments in Garzon Criminal Cases [Comment to 2/21/12 post] |
| 214 |
02/24/12 |
Former Salvadoran Military Officer Is Determined To Have Assisted in Torture and Murder |
| 215 |
02/25/12 |
Procedural Background for U.S. Supreme Court Argument in Kiobel Case on Corporate Liability for foreign Human Rights Violations |
| 216 |
02/26/12 |
Second Circuit’s Decision Rejecting Corporate Liability for Assisting Foreign Human Rights Violations |
| 217 |
02/27/12 |
U.S. Supreme Court To Consider Another Case Regarding Corporate Liability for Assisting Torture and Extrajudicial Killing |
| 218 |
02/29/12 |
Dismissal of Spanish Criminal Case Against Judge Baltasar Garzón Over Franco-Era Investigation |
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| 219 |
03/01/12 |
U.S. Supreme Court Hints That It Will Decide That Corporations Are Not Liable Under the Torture Victims Protection Act |
| 220 |
03/02/12 |
U.S. Supreme Court Hears Case That May Decide If Corporations Are Liable Under the Alien Tort Statute |
| 221 |
03/08/12 |
Intimations of Mortality |
| 222 |
03/09/12 |
International Criminal Court’s New Judges Take Office |
| 223 |
03/10/12 |
U.S. Supreme Court Orders Rehearing in Kiobel Case |
| 224 |
03/11/12 |
The 1981 El Mozote Massacre in El Salvador |
| 223A |
03/11/12 |
Comment: Response to Erik Hare [Comment to 3/10/12 post] |
| 225 |
03/12/12 |
The Art of Fact: Weaving Your Personal Story into Historical Context |
| 226 |
03/15/12 |
Gratitude I |
| 227 |
03/20/12 |
International Criminal Court’s First Conviction |
| 193A |
03/21/12 |
Comment: U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom’s New Report on Cuba [Comment to 1/5/12 post] |
| 228 |
03/22/12 |
International Criminal Court: Other Recent Developments |
| 228A |
03/24/12 |
Comment: African Union Military Action Against the Lord’s Resistance Army [Comment to 3/22/12 post] |
| 229 |
03/25/12 |
The U.N. Human Rights Council |
| 229A |
03/27/12 |
Comment: Israel Suspends Relationship with U.N. Human Rights Council [Comment to 3/25/12 post] |
| 230 |
03/27/12 |
U.N. Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review of the United States’ Human Rights Record |
| 231 |
03/28/12 |
The Antiquated U.S. Constitution |
| 119C |
03/28/12 |
Comment: Retired U.S. General Asserts Cuba Is Not a State Sponsor of Terrorism [Comment to 8/21/11 post] |
| 232 |
03/29/12 |
International Criminal Court and Victims of Genocide, Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes |
| 233 |
03/30/12 |
World of Refugees |
| 234 |
03/31/12 |
Methods of Enforcing International Human Rights Norms |
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| 235 |
04/01/12 |
Garzon Calls for Spanish Truth Commission Regarding Franco Regime’s Crimes |
| 236 |
04/01/12 |
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Decides Guantanamo Bay Detainee’s Case Against U.S. Is Admissible on the Merits |
| 237 |
04/02/12 |
Are International Criminal Tribunals Successful? |
| 238 |
04/03/12 |
National Geographic BEE |
| 239 |
04/04/12 |
Cuban Protestant Leader: Cuban Religious Freedom |
| 240 |
04/07/12 |
International Criminal Court: More Developments |
| 240A |
04/07/12 |
Comment: Libya To Defy ICC Order To Turn over Gaddafi to ICC [Comment to 4/7/12 post] |
| 241 |
04/09/12 |
Netherlands Court Awards Monetary Damages to Palestinian for Libyan Torture |
| 240B |
04/10/12 |
Comment: Speedy Libyan Trial for Seif-al Qaddafi [Comment to 4/7/12 post] |
| 231A |
04/10/12 |
Comment: Another Constitutional Change: Term Limits for U.S. Supreme Justices [Comment to 3/28/12 post] |
| 242 |
04/11/12 |
Gratitude II |
| 243 |
04/12/12 |
Gratitude III |
| 244 |
04/17/12 |
Palestinian Arts Festival in Minneapolis |
| 241A |
04/18/12 |
Comment: Libyans Sue Former U.K. Foreign Minister Over Alleged Complicity in Libyan Torture [Comment to 4/9/12 post] |
| 245 |
04/19/12 |
Legal Entities Not Liable under the Torture Victims Protection Act |
| 245A |
04/20/12 |
Comment: Human Rights Group Calls for Congress To Amend the TVPA To Subject Organizations to Liability [Comment to 4/19/12 post] |
| 246 |
04/20/12 |
“Healing the Heart of Democracy” |
| 87E |
04/22/12 |
Comment: Yoani’s Unending Dream of Leaving Cuba [Comment to 7/21/11 post] |
| 247 |
04/22/12 |
Palestinian Christian Leader To Appear on CBS-TV’s “60 Minutes” TODAY |
| 248 |
04/23/12 |
International Criminal Court Launches 10th Anniversary Website |
| 249 |
04/23/12 |
“Christians of the Holy Land” on CBS-TV’s 60 Minutes |
| 250 |
04/24/12 |
U.S. Establishes Atrocities Prevention Board |
| 224A |
04/24/12 |
Comment: Inter-American Court of Human Rights Considers El Mozote Case [Comment to 3/11/12 post] |
| 251 |
04/26/12 |
Former President of Liberia Convicted of Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes |
| 252 |
04/27/12 |
Reactions to Charles Taylor’s Conviction |
| 253 |
04/28/12 |
Miniscule Proposed Reform of Dysfunctional U.S. Senate Rules |
| 252A |
04/29/12 |
Comment: Additional Reactions to Conviction of Charles Taylor [Comment to 4/27/12 post] |
| 254 |
04/29/12 |
An 1842 Journey from New York to the Iowa Territory |
| 163D |
04/30/12 |
Comment: U.S. Military Forces Hunt for Joseph Kony [Comment to 11/18/11 post] |
| 252B |
04/30/12 |
Comment: Another Criticism of the Charles Taylor Conviction [Comment to 4/27/12 post] |
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| 162I |
05/01/12 |
Comment: Libya Asks ICC To Allow Libya To Investigate and Prosecute the Two Libyans under ICC Arrest Warrants [Comment to 11/16/11 post] |
| 255 |
05/04/12 |
Federal Appellate Court Grants Immunity to Author of Legal Memoranda Regarding U.S. Detention and Interrogation of Suspects in the “War on Terrorism” |
| 256 |
05/07/12 |
Rev. Charles Edwin Brown’s Lineage in America |
| 255A |
05/09/12 |
Comment: More Criticism of Ninth Circuit’s Decision in Case Against Author of Legal Memoranda Regarding Treatment and Interrogation of Detainees [Comment to 5/4/12 post] |
| 171B |
05/10/12 |
Comment: El Salvador Denies Spain’s Request for Extradition of Salvadorans for Killing of Jesuits [Comment to 12/3/11 post] |
| 257 |
05/10/12 |
Will U.S. Senate Finally Give Its “Advice and Consent” to Ratification of the Law of the Sea Treaty? |
| 258 |
05/12/12 |
Ancestor’s Military Service in King George’s War |
| 259 |
05/13/12 |
U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy Encounters Langston Hughes at Minneapolis’ Guthrie Theater |
| 260 |
05/14/12 |
A New Book About the Crimes of the Franco Era |
| 261 |
05/15/12 |
U.S. Senate’s Filibuster Rule Under Attack |
| 262 |
05/17/12 |
World Premier of Palestinian Christian Hymns at Minneapolis’ Westminster Presbyterian Church |
| 251A |
05/17/12 |
Comment: Charles Taylor’s Sentencing Hearing[Comment to 4/26/12 post] |
| 54A |
05/17/12 |
Comment: Trial of Former Bosnian Serb Military Commander Starts [Comment to 6/1/11 post] |
| 263 |
05/18/12 |
Palestinian Dancers Perform in Minneapolis |
| 54B |
05/18/12 |
Comment: Mladic Trial Delayed [Comment to 6/1/11 post] |
| 261A |
05/18/12 |
Comment: Differing Opinions on Constitutionality of the U.S. Senate’s Filibuster Rule [Comment to 5/15/12 post] |
| 264 |
05/20/12 |
South Africa Invokes Universal Jurisdiction for Alleged Crimes in Zimbabwe |
| 265 |
05/24/12 |
U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations Hold Hearing on the Law of the Seas Convention |
| 54C |
05/25/12 |
Comment: Mladic Trial To Resume |
| 265A |
05/25/12 |
Comment: New York Times Reiterates Its Support of Ratification of Law of Sea Treaty [Comment to 5/24/12 post] |
| 266 |
05/26/12 |
U.N. Security Council Briefing on Libya by International Criminal Court Prosecutor |
| 267 |
05/26/12 |
European Judicial Group Calls for Pardon of Garzon |
| 268 |
05/29/12 |
“Our Imbecilic Constitution” |
| 265B |
05/29/12 |
Comment: Analysis of Opposition to Law of Sea Treaty [Comment to 5/24/12 post] |
| 269 |
05/30/12 |
U.S. Releases Annual Report on Human Rights in the World |
| 251B |
05/30/12 |
Comment: Charles Taylor Sentenced to 50 Years Imprisonment [Comment to 4/26/12 post] |
| 265C |
05/31/12 |
Comment: Former Republican Secretaries of State Endorse Law of Sea Treaty [Comment to 5/24/12 post] |
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| 261B |
06/04/12 |
Comment: Rebuttal to Criticism of U.S. Senate’s Filibuster Rule [Comment to 5/15/12 post] |
| 270 |
06/04/12 |
U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy’s Nemesis: Attorney Joseph Welch |
| 271 |
06/06/12 |
Attorney Joseph Welch’s Performance at the Army-McCarthy Hearings |
| 272 |
06/08/12 |
The U.S. Army’s Hiring of Attorney Joseph Welch for the Army-McCarthy Hearings |
| 261C |
06/08/12 |
Comment: Response to Republican Defense of Senate’s Filibuster Rule |
| 264A |
06/08/12 |
Comment: Zimbabwe President Asks for Halt to South African Investigation [Comment to 5/20/12 post] |
| 273 |
06/08/12 |
ICC Prosecutor Reports About Sudan/Darfur to U.N. Security Council |
| 274 |
06/10/12 |
President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Involvement in the Army-McCarthy Hearings |
| 275 |
06/12/12 |
Joseph Welch After the Army-McCarthy Hearings |
| 265D |
06/13/12 |
Comment: Former Republican Defense Secretary Opposes Law of Sea Treaty [Comment to 5/24/12 post] |
| 276 |
06/13/12 |
Gratitude Revisited |
| 277 |
06/14/12 |
Joseph Welch Before the Army-McCarthy Hearings |
| 278 |
06/16/12 |
International Criminal Court: Recent Developments |
| 212A |
06/16/12 |
Comment: Catcher–The Toughest Position in Baseball [Comment to 2/20/12 post] |
| 279 |
06/17/12 |
Aung San Suu Kyi’s Nobel Peace Prize |
| 265E |
06/18/12 |
Comment: Former Republican Official Disputes Rumsfeld’s Opposition to the Law of the Sea Treaty [Comment to 5/24/12 post] |
| 280 |
06/19/12 |
Interpreting the U.S. Constitution Regarding Limitations on Economic Regulations |
| 265F |
06/21/12 |
Comment: Questions for Former Republican Official on Law of the Sea Treaty [Comment to 5/24/12 post] |
| 281 |
06/21/12 |
Somali Immigrant Meets Star of “M*A*S*H” TV Show |
| 265G |
06/22/12 |
Comment: Important Source of Commentary About the Law of the Sea Treaty [Comment to 5/24/12 post] |
| 278A |
06/22/12 |
Comment: ICC-Libyan Meeting Regarding Detention of Four ICC Staff Members [Comment to 6/16/12 post] |
| 282 |
06/23/12 |
Other Approaches to Interpreting the U.S. Constitution Regarding Economic Regulation |
| 265H |
06/23/12 |
Comment: George Will Opposes the Law of the Sea Treaty [Comment to 5/24/12 post] |
| 283 |
06/24/12 |
The Role of Stare Decisis in the Forthcoming U.S. Supreme Court Decision on the Affordable Care Act |
| 281A |
06/25/12 |
Comment: Mike Farrell’s Speech at Dinner for Advocates for Human Rights [Comment to 6/21/12 post] |
| 278B |
06/26/12 |
Comment: Libya Official Accuses ICC Official of Illegally Bringing Letter and Spying Devices to Gaddafi [Comment to 6/16/12 post] |
| 265I |
06/26/12 |
Comment: Rebuttal of Criticism of Law of Sea Treaty [Comment to 5/24/12 post] |
| 284 |
06/27/12 |
Legal Ethics Issues in the “Anatomy of a Murder” Movie |
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| 278C |
07/02/12 |
Comment: Libya Releases ICC Staff Members [Comment to 6/16/12 post] |
| 268A |
07/03/12 |
Comment: Questioning the Power of the U.S. Supreme Court [Comment to 5/29/12 comment] |
| 268B |
07/05/12 |
Comment: The Founders Are Not Quasi-Religious Prophets [Comment to 5/29/12 comment] |
| 268C |
07/05/12 |
Comment: U.S. Needs Constitutional Changes |
| 285 |
07/05/12 |
The U.S. Constitution’s Interstate Commerce Clause After Supreme Court’s Decision on the Affordable Care Act |
| 278D |
07/07/12 |
Comment: ICC Staff Member Denies Illegality in Libya [Comment to 6/16/12 post] |
| 286 |
07/08/12 |
Is the International Criminal Court Flawed? |
| 265J |
07/09/12 |
Comment: Another Rebuttal to Rumsfeld’s Opposition to Law of Sea Treaty [Comment to 5/24/12 post] |
| 287 |
07/10/12 |
Proposals for Changing the U.S. Constitution |
| 227A |
07/10/12 |
Comment: ICC Sentences Lubanga to 14 Years Imprisonment [Comment to 3/20/12 post] |
| 54D |
07/10/12 |
Comment: Mladic Trial Resumes [Comment to 6/1/11 post] |
| 227B |
07/10/12 |
Comment: More Details About ICC’s Sentencing of Lubanga [Comment to 3/20/12 post] |
| 288 |
07/12/12 |
Ancestors’ Military Service in French and Indian War |
| 54E |
07/13/12 |
Comment: Mladic Hospitalized and Trial Suspended [Comment to 6/1/11 post] |
| 289 |
07/14/12 |
Ancestor’s Service as Leader in the Town of Leicester in the Province of Massachusetts Bay |
| 290 |
07/16/12 |
Great Britain’s Deteriorating Relationship with Her American Colonies, 1765-1775 |
| 265K |
07/17/12 |
Comment: Law of Sea Treaty Appears To Be Dead in Senate [Comment to 5/24/12 post] |
| 291 |
07/17/12 |
Associate Justice Antonin Scalia’s Textualism Theory of Legal Interpretation Is Challenged |
| 292 |
07/18/12 |
Mali Refers Current Situation in Its Country to the International Criminal Court |
| 291A |
07/19/12 |
Comment: Justice Scalia and Bryan Garner Interviewed on TV [Comment to 7/17/12 post] |
| 293 |
07/20/12 |
The American Revolutionary War, 1775-1783 |
| 294 |
07/22/12 |
The American Revolutionary War’s Battles of Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts, April 19, 1775 |
| 291B |
07/23/12 |
Comment: Another Review of Scalia/Garner Book [Comment to 7/17/12 post] |
| 223B |
07/23/12 |
Comment: Law Professors Say Alien Tort Statute Was Intended To Have Extraterritorial Effect [Comment to 3/10/12 post} |
| 295 |
07/24/12 |
The American Revolutionary War's Mustering of the Minute Men, April 1775 |
| 295A |
07/24/12 |
Comment: Response to Kristi Paxton's comment [Comment to 7/24/12 post] |
| 296 |
07/27/12 |
The American Revolutionary War’s Siege of Boston, April 19, 1775–March 17, 1776 |
| 41B |
07/27/12 |
Comment: Cuba Reiterates Its Willingness To Discuss All Issues with U.S. [Comment to 5/21/11 post] |
| 212B |
07/29/12 |
Comment: Catcher–The Mental Demands of the Position |
| 297 |
07/30/12 |
The American Revolutionary War’s Battle of Bunker Hill, June 17, 1775 |
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| 298 |
08/01/12 |
The Latest U.S. Report on International Religious Freedom |
| 299 |
08/03/12 |
Cuban Religious Freedom According to the Latest U.S. Report on International Religious Freedom |
| 300 |
08/05/12 |
The Latest U.S. Report on International Terrorism |
| 301 |
08/07/12 |
Yet Another Ridiculous U.S. Designation of Cuba as a “State Sponsor of Terrorismj” |
| 302 |
08/09/12 |
Additional Thoughts on the Ridiculous U.S. Designation of Cuba as a “State Sponsor of Terrorism” |
| 303 |
08/10/12 |
A Powerful Prayer |
| 304 |
08/13/12 |
The American Revolutionary War’s Campaign for New York and New Jersey, March 1776–January 1777 |
| 303A |
08/13/12 |
Composer’s Comments |
| 296A |
08/14/12 |
Comment: David McCullough on the Siege of Boston |
| 303B |
08/14/12 |
Comments by Westminster’s Minister of Music and Organist |
| 305 |
08/17/12 |
Letter to President Obama Regarding Cuba |
| 306 |
08/25/12 |
Ecuador’s Dispute with the United Kingdom and Sweden over Julian Assange: Background |
| 307 |
08/26/12 |
Ecuador’s Dispute with the United Kingdom and Sweden over Julian Assange: The Inviolability of Ecuador’s Embassy |
| 307A |
08/27/12 |
Comment: United Kingdom Reiterates Desire for Renewed Negotiations with Ecuador |
| 307B |
08/30/12 |
Comment: Ecuadorian Optimism Over Resolution of Dispute |
| 308 |
08/30/12) |
Ecuador’s Dispute with the United Kingdom and Sweden over Julian Assange: Ecuador’s Grant of Asylum to Assange |
| 308A |
08/31/12 |
Comment: Developments in Dispute between Ecuador and U.K. and Sweden |
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| 309 |
09/01/12 |
Judge Richard Posner Critiques Justice Scalia’s Textual Originalism Theory of Interpreting Legal Texts |
| 310 |
09/03/12 |
Should the International Criminal Court Indict George W. Bush and Tony Blair over Iraq? |
| 308B |
09/04/12 |
Comment: Developments in Dispute between Ecuador and U.K. and Sweden # 2 |
| 311 |
09/05/12 |
Jazzy Music at Minneapolis’ Westminster Presbyterian Church |
| 312 |
09/06/12 |
Minneapolis Public Schools Desegregation/Integration Litigation, 1971-1977 |
| 308C |
09/06/12 |
Comment: Developments in Dispute between Ecuador and U.K. and Sweden # 3 |
| 313 |
09/07/12 |
Positive Developments for Improved U.S.-Cuba Relations |
| 313A |
09/08/12 |
Comment: Details of Cuba’s Assistance to Colombia-FARC Negotiations |
| 314 |
09/09/12 |
Minneapolis Public Schools’ Desegregation/Integration Litigation, 1978-1983 |
| 315 |
09/11/12 |
The Impact of the Minneapolis Public Schools Desegregation/Integration Litigation on Native American Children |
| 316 |
09/12/12 |
The U.S. Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act |
| 317 |
09/14/12 |
U.S. Supreme Court Decides that Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act Does Not Apply to Former Foreign Government Official |
| 318 |
09/15/12 |
U.S. District Court Decides that Former Somali Government Official Is Not Entitled to Common Law Immunity and Is Liable for $21 Million of Compensatory and Punitive Damages |
| 171C |
09/15/12 |
Comment: Former Salvadoran Military Officer Pleads Guilty to Lying to U.S. Immigration Officials |
| 319 |
09/17/12 |
U.S. State Department Suggests Former President of Mexico Is Immune from Suit in U.S. Federal Court for Alleged Human Rights Violations |
| 313B |
09/17/12 |
Comment: Skepticism about Colombia-FARC Negotiations |
| 320 |
09/19/12 |
The Importance of Protecting Foreign Diplomats and Diplomatic Missions |
| 308D |
09/21/12 |
Comment: U.K. Foreign Secretary’s Statement About the Assange Matter |
| 321 |
09/22/12 |
“O Holy One and Nameless” |
| 308E |
09/24/12 |
Comment: Ecuador Considers Suggesting Assange Be Interrogated in Sweden |
| 322 |
09/25/12 |
“What Do Our Hearts Treasure?” |
| 323 |
09/26/12 |
Prayer of Confession |
| 324 |
09/27/12 |
“How Do We Know God: Human Community” |
| 308F |
09/28/12 |
Comment: Assange Developments in New York City and London |
| 261D |
09/28/12 |
Comment: Another Plea for Changing the Senate Filibuster Rule |
| 325 |
09/29/12 |
In Memoriam: Rev. Dr. Henry William Andersen, 1925-2012 |
| 326 |
09/30/12 |
Percussive Preludes at Minneapolis’ Westminster Presbyterian Church |
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| 327 |
10/04/12 |
Re-argument of Important Human Rights Case in U.S. Supreme Court |
| 212C |
10/05/12 |
Comment: Additional Reflections on Baseball’s Catcher |
| 327A |
10/05/12 |
Comment: Wall Street Journal Reiterates Its Opposition to ATS |
| 87F |
10/06/12 |
Comment: Yoani Detained To Prevent Her Covering Trial |
| 328 |
10/08/12 |
The American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Brooklyn (Long Island), August 1776 |
| 308G |
10/09/12 |
Comment: Assange Developments |
| 329 |
10/10/12 |
The American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Harlem Heights (New York), September 1776 |
| 330 |
10/12/12 |
The American Revolutionary War: The Battle of White Plains, October 1776 |
| 331 |
10/14/12 |
The American Revolutionary War’s End in New York City, 1783 |
| 313C |
10/14/12 |
Comment: Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez Aided Colombia and the FARC’s Agreeing to Negotiate an End to the Colombian Civil War |
| 332 |
10/16/12 |
Affirmations of Faith at Minneapolis’ Westminster Presbyterian Church |
| 333 |
10/17/12 |
Confessions of Faith of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) |
| 319A |
10/17/12 |
Comment: District Court Orders Plaintiffs To Show Cause Why Case Should Not Be Dismissed |
| 334 |
10/19/12 |
The History of the U.S. Senate’s Filibuster Rule |
| 41C |
10/20/12 |
Comment: Another Plea for Normalization of U.S.-Cuba Relations |
| 335 |
10/22/12 |
Are The U.S. Senate’s Rules on Filibuster and Changing Those Rules Unconstitutional? |
| 336 |
10/25/12 |
Jurisdictional Issues for Lawsuit Challenging U.S. Senate Filibuster Rule |
| 308H |
10/25/12 |
Comment: Assange To Stay in Ecuadorian Embassy |
| 337 |
10/29/12 |
Maximize U.S. Voting! |
| 338 |
10/30/12 |
Excesses of People Falsely Alleging Voter Fraud |
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| 308I |
11/01/12 |
Comment: Assange’s Attorney Asks U.S. Attorney General for Information |
| 339 |
11/01/12 |
Case Against Corporations Under the Alien Tort Statute Allowed To Proceed |
| 340 |
11/03/12 |
The U.S.-Dakota War of 1862 |
| 337A |
11/04/12 |
Comment: Protecting the U.S. Right To Vote |
| 341 |
11/06/12 |
White Settler’s Contemporaneous Reaction to U.S.-Dakota War of 1862 |
| 342 |
11/07/12 |
Appellate Court Affirms Denial of Common Law Immunity to Former Somali Official |
| 343 |
11/08/12 |
Open Letter to Members of U.S. Senate in the Upcoming 113th U.S. Congress |
| 344 |
11/09/12 |
Commemoration of 150th Anniversary of the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862 |
| 345 |
11/10/12 |
The Urgent Need for Reform of the U.S. Election Systems |
| 345A |
11/11/12 |
Comment: Voter Anger Against Attempts at Voting Suppression |
| 337B |
11/11/12 |
Comment: Argument in Support of Abolition of Electoral College |
| 345B |
11/12/12 |
Comment: Another Argument that Republican Voter Suppression Efforts Fueled Minority Voting for Democrats |
| 343A |
11/13/12 |
Comment: New York Times Calls for Significant Weakening of U.S. Senate Filibuster Rule |
| 346 |
11/15/12 |
The Order of Worship at Minneapolis’ Westminster Presbyterian Church |
| 343B |
11/15/12 |
Comment: Senator-Elect Elizabeth Warren Calls for Changing Filibuster Rule |
| 337C |
11/16/12 |
Comment: Abolish the Electoral College |
| 347 |
11/18/12 |
The U.S.-Dakota War Remembered at Minneapolis’ Westminster Presbyterian Church (Part I) |
| 348 |
11/20/12 |
Sign Petition for Reform of Senate Filibuster Rule |
| 349 |
11/22/12 |
Improving the U.S. Election Procedues |
| 350 |
11/25/12 |
The U.S.-Dakota War Remembered at Minneapolis’ Westminster Presbyterian Church (Part II) |
| 351 |
11/29/12 |
The U.S.-Dakota War Remembered at Minneapolis’ Westminster Presbyterian Church (Part III) |
| 352 |
11/30/12 |
A Citizen’s Response to Washington Skirmishes Over the U.S. Senate’s Filibuster Rule |
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| 353 |
12/03/12 |
New York Times Hosts Debate Over the Filibuster |
| 354 |
12/04/12 |
Washington Post Editorial Admits U.S. Senate Filibuster Rule Is Broken and Needs Fixing, But Not by Simple Majority Vote |
| 355 |
12/05/12 |
Former U.S. Senator and Vice President, Walter Mondale Supports Changing Senate Filibuster Rule |
| 356 |
12/08/12 |
The Difficulty of Obtaining U.S. Ratification of Multilateral Treaties |
| 357 |
12/10/12 |
Personal Reflections on the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862 |
| 344A |
12/11/12 |
Minnesota Public Radio’s Resources on the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862 |
| 358 |
12/13/12 |
The El Mozote Massacre: The Truth Commission for El Salvador and the Subsequent Salvadoran General Amnesty Law and Dismissal of Criminal Case |
| 359 |
12/13/12 |
The El Mozote Massacre: The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights |
| 360 |
12/14/12 |
The El Mozote Massacre: Recent Salvadoran Efforts To Redress the Crimes |
| 361 |
12/16/12 |
The El Mozote Massacre: Inter-American Court of Human Rights Determines El Salvador Violated American Convention on Human Rights |
| 362 |
12/18/12 |
Update on Changing U.S. Senate’s Filibuster Rule |
| 363 |
12/19/12 |
Rev. Charles Edwin Brown’s Baptist Missionary Work in Iowa, 1842-1851 |
| 364 |
12/22/12 |
Rev. Charles Edwin Brown’s Recuperation in New York, 1851-1857 |
| 365 |
12/22/12 |
District Court Dismisses Lawsuit Challenging Constitutionality of U.S. Senate’s Filibuster Rule |
| 366 |
12/26/12 |
Rev. Charles Edwin Brown’s Baptist Missionary Work in Iowa, 1857-1887 |
| 367 |
12/26/12 |
Commemoration of the 150th Anniversary of the Hanging of the “Dakota 38″ |
| 368 |
12/27/12 |
The U.S. Congress Continues To Demonstrate Its Dysfunctionality |
| 369 |
12/31/12 |
Only Three Days Until U.S. Senate Decides on Filibuster Reform |
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| 370 |
01/01/13 |
Report on dwkcommentaries–2012 |
| 371 |
01/04/13 |
U.S. Senate Postpones Filibuster Reform to January 22nd |
| 372 |
01/09/13 |
Alien Tort Statute Case Against a Corporation Is Settled by Its Paying $5.28 Million |
| 368A |
01/10/13 |
Comment: Endorsement of Having a Bipartisan Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives |
| 373 |
01/12/13 |
Minneapolis and St. Paul Declare U.S.-Dakota War of 1862 “Genocide” |
| 374 |
01/15/12 |
Additional Support for Reform of U.S. Congress |
| 375 |
01/16/12 |
U.S. Ratification of the Genocide Convention |
| 376 |
01/19/13 |
GOP Scheming To Thwart Majority Popular Vote for President |
| 377 |
01/23/13 |
U.S. Senate Again Postpones Decision on Filibuster Reform |
| 378 |
01/24/13 |
U.S. Senate Adopts Modest Reform of Its Filibuster Rule |
| 376A |
01/25/13 |
Comment: Under GOP Scheme, Romney Would Have Won Electoral College in Last Election |
| 376B |
01/26/13 |
Comment: “Rig the Vote” |
| 379 |
01/26/13 |
Additional Reactions to U.S. Senate’s Adoption of Modest Reforms to Its Filibuster Rule |
| 379A |
01/27/13 |
Comment: Washington Post Endorses Senate’s Reform of Its Filibuster Rule |
| 380 |
01/27/13 |
Mission Statement of Minneapolis’ Westminster Presbyterian Church |
| 376C |
01/28/13 |
Comment: More Criticism of GOP Scheme |
| 376D |
01/28/13 |
Comment: Haley Barbour Says No GOP Plot To Rig Electoral College Voting |
| 381 |
01/30/13 |
Rev. Philip Perry Brown and Betsy Dickey Brown |
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| 382 |
02/02/13 |
Grand Central Terminal’s Centennial |
| 376E |
02/02/13 |
Comment: Washington Post Condemns GOP Scheme To Rig Electoral College |
| 383 |
02/05/13 |
U.S. Ratification of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights |
| 171D |
02/05/13 |
Comment: Sentencing of Colonel Montano Postponed So U.S. Court Can Hear Further Argument on Whether His Human Rights Record in El Salvador May Be Used To Increase the Sentence |
| 202A |
02/05/13 |
Comment: Spanish Supreme Court Dismissal of Appeal of Staying Spanish Criminal Case Against the “Bush Six” |
| 384 |
02/06/13 |
Yoani Sanchez Obtains Cuban Passport and Plans Trip to Latin America, North America and Europe |
| 385 |
02/09/13 |
Multilateral Human Rights Treaties Ratified by the U.S. |
| 386 |
02/12/13 |
Multilateral Human Rights Treaties Signed, But Not Ratified, by the U.S. |
| 387 |
02/13/13 |
Jurisdictional Black Hole for Certain Violent Crimes by Non-Indian Men Against Indian Women on Indian Reservations |
| 388 |
02/16/13 |
Multilateral Human Rights Treaties Not Signed and Ratified by the U.S. |
| 389 |
02/19/13 |
The Fate of Black British Loyalists in the American Revolutionary War |
| 390 |
02/21/13 |
Black British Loyalists Through the Eyes of Novelist Lawrence Hill |
| 391 |
02/23/13 |
Further Reflections on “The Book of Negroes” Novel |
| 392 |
02/26/13 |
A Septuagenarian’s Reaction to the Social Media |
| 393 |
02/28/13 |
GOP Senators Continue To flirt with Filibusters |
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| 394 |
03/01/13 |
Congress Passes Violence Against Women Act of 2013 |
| 395 |
03/04/13 |
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 |
| 396 |
03/06/13 |
The Voting Rights Act of 2006 |
| 397 |
03/08/13 |
Prior U.S. Supreme Court Case Regarding the Voting Rights Act of 2006 |
| 398 |
03/10/13 |
Mexican Court Invalidates Former Mexican President’s Claim of Immunity from Alien Tort Statute and Torture Victims Protection Act Case in U.S. |
| 399 |
03/11/13 |
The D.C. Circuit’s Decision Upholding the Validity of the Voting Rights Act of 2006 |
| 400 |
03/14/13 |
James DeGrush Brown and Ella Francelia Dye Brown |
| 401 |
03/17/13 |
George Edwin Brown and Jennie Olivia Johnson Brown |
| 402 |
03/18/13 |
U.S. Supreme Court Shows Unjustified Hostility to Voting Rights Act of 2006 |
| 403 |
03/24/13 |
Organization of American States Strengthens Inter-American Human Rights System |
| 84A |
03/25/13 |
Comment: D.C. Circuit Case Regarding Corporate Liability Under the Alien Tort Statute Is Stayed Pending U.S. Supreme Court Decision in Kiobel |
| 404 |
03/26/13 |
Failed Efforts To Weaken the Inter-American Human Rights System Under the Guise of Reform |
| 405 |
03/26/13 |
Additional Thoughts About Mexican and U.S. LegalIssues in the Pending U.S. Lawsuit Against Ernesto Zedillo, Former President of Mexico |
| 406 |
03/28/13 |
Mexican Court Decision Regarding Zedillo Immunity Is Filed in U.S. Case |
| 339A |
03/28/13 |
Comment: District Court Dismisses Complaint Against Two Corporations |
| 223A |
03/28/13 |
Comment: Rio Tinto Case Being Held by Supreme Court Until After Its Decision in Kiobel |
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| 407 |
04/01/13 |
International Criminal court: Status of Its Situations and Cases |
| 408 |
04/02/13 |
International Criminal Court: Other Developments |
| 409 |
04/03/13 |
International Criminal Court: The U.S. and the ICC |
| 410 |
04/07/13 |
Another Report on Grand Central Terminal’s Centennial |
| 411 |
04/09/13 |
Are the International Criminal Court’s Kenyan Cases Collapsing? |
| 412 |
04/11/13 |
Judging on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit |
| 413 |
04/14/13 |
Enforcement of International Human Rights Norms with U.S. Immigration Laws |
| 414 |
04/17/13 |
Former Mexican President Tells U.S. Court To Ignore Mexican Court Decision |
| 415 |
04/17/13 |
The Outrageous, Dysfunctional U.S. Senate |
| 416 |
04/18/13 |
U.S. Supreme Court Severely Limits Application of the Alien Tort Statute |
| 417 |
04/20/13 |
Watertown, Massachusetts, 238 Years Ago |
| 418 |
04/21/13 |
Inspiration from Charles Wesley |
| 419 |
04/24/13 |
Latest U.S. Report on Human Rights Around the World |
| 420 |
04/24/13 |
Evaluations of President Obama |
| 421 |
04/27/13 |
What Do We Christians Do After Easter? |
| 297A |
04/27/13 |
Comment: New Book on Battle of Bunker Hill |
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| 422 |
05/01/13 |
Reflections on the New Testament’s John 21: 1-14 |
| 423 |
05/04/13 |
Additional Reflections on the New Testament’s John 21 |
| 424 |
05/15/13 |
Save the Minnesota Orchestra! |
| 425 |
05/18/13 |
Jury Duty |
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