Lee Iacocca: Mitt Will Make It Easier for Auto Companies to Evade Taxes on Cars Built in China
As part of its effort to pretend that Mitt would be good for the auto industry, the campaign had Lee Iacocca sum up why Mitt would be good for the auto industry.
The first paragraph of specifics reads:
When Mitt Romney is president, he will…
Italian Automaker Brings about Chrysler Success after GOP Private Equity Failure
I've been a bit tardy in responding to Mitt's latest cynical ploy, to pretend that rather than expanding production and jobs in both OH and MI, Chrysler is outsourcing production to China.
The Detroit News' David Shepardson has a good…
Provide For the Common Defense or Go Galt?
We awake to a changed and battered country this morning. CNN's headline at CNN.com currently blares "Millions wake to devastation", while AP gives us a state-by-state rundown of the effects of Hurricane (and then Superstorm) Sandy. At a time,…
Why Should We Believe Solicitors General about Warrantless Wiretapping
I'm working on a longer post about the arguments in Amnesty v. Clapper today.
But I wanted to point to this passage from the transcript, in which Solicitor General Don Verrilli responded to Justice Ginsburg's suggestion that the FISA Court…
Sandy Makes Turn, Landfall in Mid-Atlantic Expected by Monday Night
In the 8 am update from the National Hurricane Center, NOAA has announced that Hurricane Sandy is now moving to the north-northwest. In the previous update, Sandy was headed due north, so this means that the turn toward the coast of the US has…
If Hillary Named Fat Al Gore a Foreign Terrorist Organization...
I've been thinking about how things would be different if Hillary Clinton named Fat Al Gore--my metaphorical name for climate change--a Foreign Terrorist Organization.
The FTO designation, you'll recall, is the official designation that signals…
Wherein DC Sir Lancelots Turn Their Tail And Flee Like Candyass Sir Robins
Attention Americans:
Those brave elected and appointed representatives who represent YOU in the Federal Government are fleeing! Well, granted, I guess that doesn't really account for the elected members of Congress who have been diddling…
Blowing Like A Hurricane: Sandy Trash Talk
There are so many current, and extant, memes and winds with which to open up that which is the Emptywheel blog Trash Talk. Ima gonna get in such HUGE problems from Marcy for not featuring Meat Loaf right here on the cover of our own Rolling…
Administration Continues Apparent Policy of Harassing Pakistani Drone Critics
Yesterday, US officials detained and questioned former cricket star turned politician and drone critic Imran Khan in Canada before allowing him to travel on to New York.
Khan told his followers on Twitter on Friday that he was detained and…
Is Chinese Elite Looting More Newsworthy than Middle Eastern--or US--Looting?
NYT has a really good article today on how the family of Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao has gotten enormously wealthy while he's been in power. The Chinese government has already started censoring the story itself and discussions of it.
And…
Lethal Events in Afghanistan Become Even More Difficult to Decipher
Events on Wednesday, Thursday and early Friday in Afghanistan stand as a stark reminder that killings now take place for such a variety of reasons and by such a variety of groups that assigning blame and motivation becomes extremely difficult.
The…
Michael Hayden, Privacy and Counterterrorism Frugality Champion
Of 1,423 words in an article questioning whether deficit hawkery might cut the domestic spying budget, Scott Shane devotes over a sixth--roughly 260--describing what former NSA and CIA Director Michael Hayden thinks about the balances between…
The Moral Rectitude Assassination Czar
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Back in April and May, when John Brennan seized control of the drone targeting process purportedly in the interest of "showing the American public that al-Qaida targets are chosen only after painstaking and…
Only in Florida: Congressman David Rivera Funds Sham Candidate, Faces Ethics Charges, FBI Probe - Doesn't Resign
Proving that Florida is the fetid swamp where political rectitude goes to decay and die a foul death, Congressman David Rivera (R-FL) has raised the bar for misdeeds in office without resigning in disgrace.
In late September, Manny Garcia…
Would the Real Ansar al-Sharia Please Stand Up?
Back in September, when Republicans were hyperventilating over the former Gitmo detainee, Abu Sufyan bin Qumu, purportedly behind the Benghazi attack, Aaron Zelin patiently explained the difference between Ansar al-Sharia in Benghazi--which…
Maybe This Is Why Mitt Didn't Exercise His "Jimmy Carter Opportunity" on Libya on Monday?
Even while Liz BabyDick Cheney joins in the dance on Ambassador Chris Stevens' grave, Mitt Romney said nothing about it in Monday's debate.
Maybe this is why:
Ali Ani al-Harzi, who was arrested in Turkey with one other person, kept there…
Food Trucks: The Next Terrorist Threat
In a fit of fearmongering reminiscent of the Mobile Bioweapons Labs used to get us into the Iraq War, FDNY did a report last month warning about the use of food trucks by terrorists. (Via Government Security News, h/t G.W.Schulz) The chief worry…
BioWatch: Even Stupider Than Reagan's "Star Wars" System
On July 31 of this year, President Barack Obama signed a cover letter attached to the White House release of the National Strategy for Biosurveillance (pdf). The misguided premise on which this strategy (and the underlying boondoggle of the…
Nashiri Asks for the Targeting Package on the OTHER USS Cole Mastermind
Things just got interesting in the pre-trial hearing for Abd al Rahim al-Nashiri in Gitmo. According to Charlie Savage and Carol Rosenberg, he has asked for the targeting package used to kill Abu Ali al-Harithi in Yemen in November 2002.
While…
DiFi's Very Brown List of Terrorists
Presumably to boost Obama's election chances, Dianne Feinstein released a list of "95 individuals arrested inside the United States since January 2009 on terrorism-related charges." The list includes the real terrorists--Najibullah Zazi and…