Sanford says he told ‘a little white lie’ God is on his side Gov. Mark Sanford says he told "a little white lie" to his staff to conceal his secret trip to Argentina in June to visit his lover. The governor also says God is on his side, and he has no intentions of resigning. […]
First They Did Harm Washington Post By Eugene Robinson September 4, 2009 For the Bush administration, torture was a delicate business. The aim was to injure but not incapacitate – to inflict precisely enough pain and terror to break a subject’s will, but no more. To calibrate the proper degree of abuse, the torturer needed […]
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This article is worth reading in toto, even though it’s 8 pages long and mentions a gaggle of economists that you’ve never heard of. It’s about the abject failure of academic and government economists to understand, regulate, or predict our economy: I’ve reprinted Krugman’s conclusions: How Did Economists Get It So Wrong? New York Times […]
Whitehouse and the Corpus Delicti Leading to Cheney By: emptywheel September 2, 2009 6:00 pm A number of you have pointed to this article, where Sheldon Whitehouse speaks of the corpus delicti that justifies an investigation. The prosecutor is often first presented with a case as a "corpus delicti" — a bullet-riddled body in the […]
Living in a Culture of Cruelty: Democracy as Spectacle t r u t h o u t by: Henry A. Giroux 02 September 2009 Under the Bush administration, a seeping, sometimes galloping, authoritarianism began to reach into every vestige of the culture, giving free rein to those anti-democratic forces in which religious, market, military and […]
Sanford, invoking Palin, vows to fight on Washington Times September 02, 2009 Embattled South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford acknowledged Tuesday that he has been shaken by the failure of a single fellow Republican to back him in his fight to save his job, but vowed to fight on for conservative causes and for "what God […]
from democrats.com: We join with FoxNewsBoycott, ColorOfChange, and other groups in this boycott. Cancellations [Beck/FOX] Our targets [9/2/09] Allergan Ally Bank (GMAC) Ancestry.com Applebees AT&T Bank of America Bell & Howell Best Buy Binder & Binder [Beck] Blaine Labs Brez (Airware) Broadview Security Campbell’s Soup Clorox Closing.com [Beck] CVS Dannon [Beck] DirecTV DITECH.com Farmers Insurance […]
emptywheel has a summary of the documents withheld from the recent ACLU FOIA release [The CIA’s Latest Vaughn Follies] which is a bit more readable than the government listing. There remain a stack of documents, and as noted in emptywheel‘s comments, there are a number of OLC opinions still being withheld: emptywheel in response to […]