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In refusing to let Paul Manafort choose in which jail he awaits trial, Judge TS Ellis invoked the foreign and domestic terrorists, spies and traitors he'll share space with.

Contrary to some conclusions drawn from my deliberately oblique post, the text I published in my post on going to the FBI had nothing I understood to do with the primary reason I went to the FBI. Rather, it just seemed to establish a link between the attack on the US and the grand bargain Trump will likely deliver over the next two weeks.

If burning sources that lie to you is not a cardinal rule of journalism, it damn well ought to be. I suspect that Marcy's honest sources will respect her more for this, and her dishonest ones will be very very nervous. Isn't that something that all journalists ought to strive for? Sullivan lauded Marcy for being a journalist with a conscience -- which she is, but that's not the point here. The point is that Marcy is a journalist with a spine.

On Tuesday, Mueller's team gave Paul Manafort the contents of Rick Gates' electronic devices for the first time. Yesterday, after receiving another large dump of evidence, Manafort asked to delay his July 25 trial.

In Democracy Against Capitalism the Marxist scholar Ellen Meiksins Wood says that the driving force of capitalism is the urgent desire to accumulate more capital. As we know, and not just from Marx, capitalist only expends capital in the expectation…

America's founders didn't set out to create a summer holiday when they signed what for all intents and purposes was their death warrant.

The day after the election, I received a text saying Flynn was going to work on Syria.

Paul Manafort (and maybe his wife) is the only one who has a Fourth Amendment interest in his iPods. I think that's why he's trying so hard to get the search and seizure of them suppressed.