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Sunday | May 26, 2002
Day 1
I am progressive. I am liberal. I make no apologies. I believe government has an obligation to create an even playing [...]
I think this kind of report is important for several reasons. First, it is an antidote to the monotonous and unfounded claims by the Vice President [note that there aren't many people backing up his claims]. But more importantly, there are lots of people out there with specific information that can clarify all this murkiness [...]
Empathy Triumphs Over Excellence American Enterprise Institute By John Yoo May 26, 2009
President Obama’s nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor shows that empathy has won out over excellence in the White House. Sotomayor has sterling credentials: Princeton, Yale Law School, former prosecutor, and federal trial and appellate judge. But credentials do not an [...]
Dick Cheney’s Torture Kabuki By: emptywheel May 26, 2009
I wanted to pull three threads together in this post, which suggest how Cheney instituted torture [...]
Our Crumbling Foundation New York Times By BOB HERBERT May 25, 2009
I’m not sure that the catastrophic job losses of this recession, the worst since the Great Depression, have really sunk into the public’s consciousness. And that would mean that the ground has not been prepared for the [...]
Worldviews Collide Obama or Cheney? It’s Your Choice. By Eugene Robinson Washington Post [...]
World economy stabilizing: Krugman Reuters May 25, 2009
The world economy has avoided "utter catastrophe" and industrialized countries could register growth this year, Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman said on Monday.
"I will not be surprised to see world trade stabilize, world industrial production stabilize and start to grow two months from now," Krugman told a [...]
Released OLC Documents [between 9/11 and the Iraq Invasion]
09/25/01 John C. Yoo
The President’s Constitutional Authority To Conduct Military Operations Against Terrorists and Nations Supporting Them: Concludes that the Commander in Chief Clause vests the President with plenary authority to use military force abroad. "We conclude that the President [...]
In Flanders Fields John McCrae, MD (1872-1918)
In Flanders Fields the poppies blow Between the crosses row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid [...]
There is a set of actual theories that underlie the peculiar and paranoid way that Dick Cheney and his cohorts think - the way he spoke in his recent speech at the American Enterprise Institute. It flowered in the culture of the A.E.I. during the 1990’s where the Neoconservatives spent the Clinton years. Notice the [...]