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17 Sep 2010, 9:43 am
So although in this sense all sentient beings are morally indistinguishable, we decided to draw an admittedly indefensible distinction between fish and other nonhuman animals because we need to bring the public into this gradually. [read post]
5 Apr 2018, 9:01 pm
Last month, the city of San Francisco, in a unanimous vote by the Board of Supervisors, banned the sale of new fur in the city, including online sales but not including sheep and lamb skin. [read post]
15 Apr 2007, 7:24 am
Bush's administration, a far, far more serious act than Bill Clinton's presumptively indefensible pardon of Marc Rich? [read post]
9 Nov 2011, 1:41 pm
However, the inclusion of the Arctic Ocean in the country's five-year drilling plan is indefensible. [read post]
27 Apr 2019, 1:01 am
But Grant knew the situation for blacks in the South was indefensible. [read post]
25 Mar 2009, 10:19 am
Whether this is due to the MSM's typical incompetence or, at least equally likely, to complicity arising from a variety of indefensible reasons (e.g., false claims that the facts have all been known previously (though never considered in combination), a desire to be complicitous with the political powers that be in order to be seen as serious players and to preserve access to high ranking sources, warnings from corporate front offices worried about losing money if these matters are… [read post]
10 Feb 2016, 9:01 pm
On the campaign trail, Rubio does say that he would allow abortions to save a woman’s life, but he sticks to his very immoderate view that women who become pregnant due to rape or incest must not be allowed to terminate their pregnancies.Note that being immoderate does not mean taking a logically indefensible position. [read post]
21 May 2016, 4:46 am
Kevin McCarty: My first instinct was of course is unleash the hounds of hell -- let's go after them, and expose them for the unconscionable, indefensible behavior that was going on. [read post]
30 Mar 2012, 3:28 pm
Listen to the Audio JUDY WOODRUFF: And to the analysis of Shields and Brooks. [read post]
29 Oct 2007, 8:01 am
The bottom line is that the OLC legal analysis in support of waterboarding is indefensible -- I think Ben would agree -- and Judge Mukasey should simply say so.Which brings me to the final and most important reason why Judge Mukasey can answer the question -- even if DOJ does not provide him with the classified OLC memos. [read post]
18 Apr 2019, 12:39 pm
In a scenario where the property tax was repealed outright (which is not part of the proposal in either state), tax collections at a particular point in time could serve as the basis for a redistribution formula indefinitely, with increasingly indefensible results as time passes. [read post]
26 Jul 2021, 4:16 pm
A year ago, The Times newspaper published a news report that began: “The National Trust has declared its intention to ‘dial down’ its role as a major cultural institution and move away from being the custodian of the English country home. [read post]
16 Dec 2010, 8:03 am
” Whatever Wall Street’s apologists say, the secrecy is indefensible. [read post]
16 Aug 2011, 7:08 am
” The first reason overlooks the reach of antidiscrimination and public-accommodations laws; the second indefensibly limits religious-freedom concerns to the church ceremony and the clergyperson. [read post]
3 Feb 2009, 7:25 am
Hiring straight-A law school graduates and hoping for the best is an irresponsible and indefensible way to manage talent and grow business. [read post]
5 Nov 2019, 9:01 pm
Costly measures, in other words, are indefensible if they do not actually advance the important interest at which they are aimed.Still, it does seem likely that a closed door eliminates the possibility of witnesses in a way that an open door does not. [read post]
3 Dec 2018, 9:00 pm
And state taxpayers will continue to pay millions to defend indefensible laws. [read post]
27 Feb 2025, 2:15 pm
[That's the powerful argument that Mayor Adams's lawyers are making, citing (among other grounds) the leaking of a resignation letter containing "the wildly inflammatory and false accusation that Mayor Adams and his counsel had, in essence, offered a quid to the Department of Justice in exchange for the quo of dismissal. [read post]
31 Dec 2020, 6:30 am
Not surprisingly, Peckham, a dissenter in Jacobson and the author of the Court’s Lochner opinion, volunteered that Chicago’s total blockade of warehouse “would seem to have been arbitrary and wholly indefensible. [read post]
20 Feb 2025, 4:24 pm
By firing career anti-corruption prosecutors, including some with impeccable Federalist Society credentials, it has sent an unmistakable signal to lawyers defending its increasingly indefensible actions in court. [read post]
