December 2011
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“Furthermore, Rizal and his comrades of the 1880s and 1890s were so...”
– Benedict Anderson, Spectre of Comparisons (via hegemon)
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Amazon and Long-form Journalism →
futurejournalismproject:
Anecdotal evidence is trickling in that Amazon is turning into a legitimate outlet for long-form journalism.
For example, Marc Herman recently wrote about Libya for The Atlantic and then turned his additional reporting into a Kindle Single selling for $1.99. Current result: the title is in Kindle’s top 500 and Herman is on pace to recoup the costs of his Libya trip.
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Fact Checking Santa Claus →
futurejournalismproject:
The Physics of Santa and His Reindeer
Not to be a buzz kill but… Via Snopes (and with apologies for quoting in its entirety):
No known species of reindeer can fly. BUT there are 300,000 species of living organisms yet to be classified, and while most of these are insects and germs, this does not COMPLETELY rule out flying reindeer which only Santa has ever seen.
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“To put this as crisply as I can, the study of the classics is the study of what...”
– Mary Beard, “Do the Classics Have a Future?”, in the New York Review of Books. (via thebronzemedal)
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“One of his most celebrated battles for an “underprivileged” was set off by an...”
– Fritz Marquardt, on Quezon’s criticism of the courts in the Cuevo v. Barredo case.
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“A well-constituted court for the trial of impeachments is an object not more to...”
– Alexander Hamilton, in Federalist No. 65, on the nature of impeachment and the role of public opinion
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“Arroyo has come to emulate the theatrics of Imelda Marcos by repeatedly trying...”
– Edsel Tupaz and Daniel Wagner, Of Circuses and Sanity in the Philippines, in the Huffington Post, December 14, 2011
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“THE PRESIDENT. Commissioner Regalado is recognized.
MR. REGALADO. Thank you,...”
– Record of the Constitutional Commission, Proceedings and Debates, 272
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“MR. MAAMBONG. Let us go to a bottom-line question then. When the Senate acting...”
– Record of the Constitutional Commission, Proceedings and Debates, 277
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From the Cambridge History of Law in America, pp....
For the Jeffersonians, Marbury’s trespass on executive authority was no isolated provocation, but was of a piece with the long-term campaign of the Federalists. The opinion recalled for them the equally gratuitous lectures on Federalist constitutionalism that Federalist judges had used to bully grand juries throughout the 1790s, especially in the period of the Alien and Sedition Acts. It...
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Impeachment trials: from the U.S. Senate site
Impeachment trials:
Early in the 1787 Constitutional Convention, most delegates agreed that the inclusion of an impeachment provision would help to hold national officers accountable for their actions. The Senate’s role in impeachment trials, however, developed after months of consideration behind the closed doors of committee rooms. Based on those of the British Parliament and the state...
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West's Encyclopedia of American Law: impeachment
The roots of impeachment date to ancient Athens. Its place in the U.S. Constitution was secured by the influence of English common law on the Framers of the Constitution. Originally, any English subject, politician, or ruler could institute impeachment charges in Parliament. By the fourteenth century, this power became the exclusive domain of the House of Commons and the House of Lords. In 1776,...
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Oxford Dictionary of Politics: impeachment
A formal accusation of wrongdoing. To impeach a public official is to accuse him of crimes or misdemeanours in the execution of his duties. Impeachment proceedings normally occur in the lower house of a legislature, with any subsequent trial taking place in the upper house. In England, prior to the development of ministerial responsibility to Parliament, impeachment was used as a means whereby the...
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Woodrow Wilson on impeachment
From Woodrow Wilson’s book, Congressional government: a study in American politics
Upon Machiavelli’s declaration that “nothing is more important to the stability of the state that facility should be given by its constitution for the accusation of those who are supposed to have committed public wrong,” a writer in the “Westminster Review” makes this thoughtful...
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“Of course the impeachment was thoroughly political. The in-court statements of...”
– Robert Black, on the impeachment of Andrew Johnson
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Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 66, on...
8 March 1788 A review of the principal objections that have appeared against the proposed court for the trial of impeachments, will not improbably eradicate the remains of any unfavourable impressions, which may still exist, in regard to this matter.
The first of these objections is, that the provision in question confounds legislative and judiciary authorities in the same body; in violation of...
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Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 65, on...
7 March 1788 A well constituted court for the trial of impeachments, is an object not more to be desired than difficult to be obtained in a government wholly elective. The subjects of its jurisdiction are those offenses which proceed from the misconduct of public men, or in other words from the abuse or violation of some public trust. They are of a nature which may with peculiar propriety be...
“The Convention thought the Senate the most fit depository of this important...”
– Alexander Hamilton, in The Federalist, No. 65, on why impeachment trials are held in the Senate.
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“This brings me to one last point. It is not merely that reporting is useful
in...”
– Tom Wolfe, Stalking the billion-footed beast: A Literary Manifesto
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“QUESTIONS ABOUT THE reliability of Kapuściński’s reportage begin with The...”
– John Ryle, Tropical baroque, African reality and the work of Ryszard Kapuściński
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“INTERVIEWER
How did you start writing?
GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ
By drawing. By...”
– Gabriel Garcia Marquez, The Art of Fiction No. 69, Interviewed by Peter H. Stone
