Sanford: Let’s change the subject Governor trying to put talk of resignation, affair behind him The State By JOHN O’CONNOR July 22, 2009 Gov. Mark Sanford said it was time for the state to move on from the weeks-long debate about whether he should stay or resign following his admission of an extramarital affair. Sanford […]
While I doubt that anyone reading this thinks that our invasion of Iraq was grounded in any genuine threats to our safety, we’re now in a position to look into whether that fact is going to be swept under the rug or examined formally. Recently, I was looking over John Yoo’s OLC Memos coming from […]
The recent comment by Senator Jim Demint [R-SC] was remarkable: "If we’re able to stop Obama on this it will be his Waterloo. It will break him." President Obama‘s response, as always, on point: Just the other day, one Republican Senator said, and I’m quoting him now, "if we’re able to stop Obama on this, […]
“Protecting” President Cheney, Too By: emptywheel July 21, 2009 In today’s second installment on ways American taxpayers are wasting money to protect Dick Cheney from embarrassment, Josh Gerstein has a report on today’s hearing on CREW’s FOIA of Cheney’s interview in the CIA Leak Case. And DOJ is unabashedly making the argument that it should […]
I started Medical School in 1963, but because of a lot of training, obligatory military service, and years in academic medicine, I didn’t become a private practitioner until 1985 [at the age of 43]. By then, the world of [so-called] Managed Care was in full swing. I guess I was fortunate, the thing I did […]
ShrinkRap 07/16/2009 Common Cause lists these as issues that need to be investigated and calls for a special prosecutor to be appointed: Warrantless spying on Americans. Misuse of the state secrets doctrine. Preventive detention and secret prisons. Use of torture and other interrogation abuses. Deliberate flaunting of Congress’ oversight role. Politicization of the Justice Department. […]
This report is very hard to read. I found myself empathizing with all of the characters – Shumate, Soufan, Abu Zubaida, Gaudin, Mitchell, Jessen. It’s as if they were caught up in something terrible that they could neither stay with nor escape. However this ultimately turns out, it should never have happened. It will remain […]
Losing my religion for equality The Age Jimmy Carter July 15, 2009 Women and girls have been discriminated against for too long in a twisted interpretation of the word of God. I have been a practicing Christian all my life and a deacon and Bible teacher for many years. My faith is a source of […]