A lot of you have been in the camp that thinks Hillary Clinton is hurting the Democratic Party for some time. I just got there today, in earnest. I voted in the Primary for Obama, but I only decided late and the deciding factor was his vote against the Iraq War. I liked them both. […]
In the Play, No Exit by Jean Paul Sartre [1944], three characters arrive in a room with a closed door [which the audience soon recognizes to be Hell]. In their dialogue, they begin to try to use each other to create a positively tinged self-image. From an old review: When the picture a man […]
There was a semi-recent Daily Show where Jon Stewart had a clip of Bush’s introductory remarks in a series of speeches. He always started with saying why he was wherever-he-was: "I’m here to console the wives of …", "I’m here to …" It was striking, and robotic. It sounded like that line in Around the […]
The Question Petraeus Can’t Answer … But he had not really responded to the comments that Sen. Richard Lugar made at the start of the Foreign Relations Committee hearings with the general and Ambassador Ryan Crocker. The Indiana Republican, one of the real wise men of foreign policy and an ally of the Bush administration, […]
Christopher Edley, Jr. Title: William H. Orrick, Jr., Professor of Law and Dean Christopher Edley, Jr. joined Boalt Hall as dean and professor of law in 2004, after 23 years as a professor at Harvard Law School. He earned a law degree and a master’s degree in public policy from Harvard University, where he served […]
The Torture Memo The Justice Department is investigating the lawyers whose memos gave the Bush Administration the legal support it needed for waterboarding and other brutal interrogation techniques. We are "examining whether the legal advice in these memoranda was consistent with the professional standards that apply to Department of Justice attorneys," H. Marshall Jarrett, counsel […]
Says the Conscience of the Blogosphere, Digby: I thought I was long past the point of being shocked at anything the Bush administration did. They suspended the constitution after 9/11 and set forth a series of legal opinions that said the president can do anything he deems necessary to "protect the country." Once you truly […]
Iran Top Threat To Iraq, U.S. Says Focus on Al-Qaeda Now Diminishing By Karen DeYoung Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, April 12, 2008 Last week’s violence in Basra and Baghdad has convinced the Bush administration that actions by Iran, and not al-Qaeda, are the primary threat inside Iraq, and has sparked a broad reassessment of […]
James Madison wrote that a "popular Government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy, or perhaps both." Reports that President Clinton may invoke executive privilege to block the investigation into the Monica Lewinsky affair have elements of both… Mindful of the extraordinary step […]