US Detention System “Essentially Lawless” By emptywheel 11/17/2009 Just in case you haven’t been following Balkinization since Marty Lederman went to work at DOJ, I wanted to link to this Jon Hafetz* post, which hits on a lot of the points that powwow and Mary raised in this thread yesterday. But at Guantánamo, the road […]
The worst is yet to come: Unemployed Americans should hunker down for more job losses New York Daily News BY Nouriel Roubini November 15, 2009 Think the worst is over? Wrong. Conditions in the U.S. labor markets are awful and worsening. While the official unemployment rate is already 10.2% and another 200,000 jobs were lost […]
I don’t know much about White House Counsel, Gregory Craig, who just resigned [or was let go]. So I have nothing to say about either Craig’s performance or his exit. But I do have something of a comment about some of the reports about his leaving. Washington blogger Steve Clemons and NPR’s Nina Totenberg see […]
In an earlier post, I wrote about the Genetech lobbying efforts to plaster the Congressional Record with their lobby scripts – getting access to 42 Congressmen. In talking to people today, a lot of people had trouble following what all the hooplah is about. Here’s a crude explanation: Wikipedia has a good write-up on the […]
Oh look! An editorial by John Yoo that says that what Obama is doing, or the current DOJ is doing, isn’t the right thing. He thinks that we should do what the Bush Administration said to do – have Military Commissions try the terrorist prisoners. KSM was captured on March 1, 2003. The here-to-fore-mentioned Bush […]
A Wake Up Call on Jobs Huffington Post by Robert Kuttner Co-Founder and Co-Editor of The American Prospect November 15, 2009 President Obama has announced a White House Jobs Summit for next month. At least that’s the beginning of recognition that the unemployment rate is unacceptable. The measured rate is now 10.2 percent, but if […]
Some things are just too big to ponder. Macroeconomics is on the top of my list right now, even above ‘black holes’ [though I’m beginning to think they’re related]. This is the Balance of Trade graph – how much we export and how much we import. With the financial crisis, both fell [good]. Imports particularly […]
The issue here has to do with the newer biological treatment modalities and their fate under health care reform. Jane Hamsher of FDL, a breast cancer survivor, wrote a piece about how the profits of the companies producing these drugs had been protected by Congresswoman Anna Eschoo [October 29th]. Eschoo responded the next day. [October […]
First Step in Possible Sanford Impeachment Happens Tuesday Rep. Greg Delleney will pre-file an impeachment resolution Tuesday. Channel 7 – Spartanburg SC By Robert Kittle November 13, 2009 The first step in the possible impeachment of Gov. Mark Sanford happens Tuesday, November 17th, the first day for pre-filing bills in the South Carolina House of […]
Well, there she is. No blog can really be called a blog without a picture of Sarah Palin and some commentary either for her, about her, or against her – maybe something about her book. I haven’t read her book. What I want think about is living in a country that takes her seriously, about […]