Opinion: Court Decisions, North Korea, Mexico and a Bullet Train

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Friday’s wonderful opinion:

John Yoo:The high court’s Hamdan power grab
The justices are hampering the president’s ability to fight terrorists, says an architect of Bush’s legal strategy.

Edward N. Luttwak: North Korea’s clown provocateur
Kim Jong Il uses crises to maintain power. We should not rise to the latest bait.

Michael S. Dukakis and Arthur H. Purcell: L.A.-S.F. train is a quick traffic fix
High-speed rail can crack the two cities’ desperate congestion cycle, says Michael Dukakis.

Rosa Brooks: That’s the GOP’s big gun?
Republicans running on their anti-terror exploits are just plain nutty.

Editorials

Mexico, the day after
Lopez Obrador is right to challenge the vote but wrong to impugn a system that’s working.

Laguna’s lost day-labor politics
Closing down a worker center may hurt the problem it aims to fix.

Sexual history now fair game
California’s Supreme Court rightly decides that high-risk partners have disease-transmission liability before they know they’re infected.