New York Times, March 13 , 1871 page 4; "In reviewing this book of Mr. Darwin's The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation To Sex, we shall endeavor to give an impartial outline of his arguments, without discussing at present the opinions set forth, still less desiring it to be understood that we concur in Mr. Darwin's conclusions.
The public memorandum from the Speaker of the Assembly, Dr. Mindy Young, reads more like a defense attorney's closing argument than an impartial investigation, and is being viewed as a "whitewash" - threatening to add to our reputation of sweeping things under the rug rather than thoroughly exploring and dealing with charges of impropriety.
When people clamor for the preservation or extension of the rule of law, are they advocating a substantive conception of the rule of law respecting private property and promoting liberty, a formal conception emphasizing an "inner morality of law, " or a procedural conception stressing the right to be heard by an impartial tribunal and to make arguments about what the law is?
Most importantly, NSA and FISA activities lack the salutary workings of our traditional adversarial processes in which parties with a stake are informed and have the opportunity to raise issues, including the opportunity to present competing proofs and arguments to an impartial decider.
"My concern is whether our judges are still independent enough to see a reasoned argument and cast an impartial vote when they have the opportunity".
Change is necessary to ensure that opinions are not just a recitation of a prosecutor's argument, but a thoughtful product of an impartial judge.
The statement called for an impartial investigation into the confrontation.
An impartial judge and an impartial twelve citizens will decide this case.
You will hear this argument over and over again from regime supporters, but no one taking an impartial view of the Syrian conflict can hold a straight face to this perception of the war.
The defence against the incoherence objection seems far more secure, however, if the argument for rule-consequentialism is that this theory does better than any other moral theory at specifying an impartial justification for intuitively plausible moral rules.
