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Stocks opened lower this morning after investors worried about the outbreak of the ’swine flu’ and what impact it might have on the global economy. But the fears don’t seem to have persisted for long, as the major indexes have already bounced back into positive territory. Talk about being hard to keep this market down–
Shorter Stuart Taylor: It is well-established that criminal laws can only be applied if it can be proven that lawbreaking had no positive consequence whatsoever.* By far the most reliable guide to whether such consequences exist is the highly reliable unsubstantiated assertions of the lawbreakers themselves. A commission to investigate the Bush administration’s arbitrary torture is OK, but the only acceptable outcome is exoneration, which we should assume in advance. After all, an illegal arbitrary torture regime is far less consequential than a president lying about receiving a blowjob — now that’s worth a multi-year investigation.
