To the Manner Born

The following is an excerpt from OpinionJournal.com’s “Best of the Web” written by the editor, James Taranto.

NOTE: The excerpt below is from the March 15 BOTW archive:

To the Manner Born
From a CBS News report on a 2004 friend-of-the-court brief signed by Eric Holder, now the U.S. attorney general:

The brief in question discusses, in reference to the Jose Padilla case, whether the president has the legal authority to hold without charges a U.S. citizen captured on American soil, in the manor of an enemy combatant.

That this was even an issue at least disproves once and for all the notion that poverty is the cause of terrorism. 

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