Could Santorum's Radical Religious Fundamentalism Propel US Into Religious Violence?
Despite the fact that our country was founded in part by immigrants seeking to escape religious persecution, the current crop of Republican presidential candidates (with the exception of Ron Paul, who gets no media airtime anyway) have carried…
Majid Khan to Accept Plea Deal
The WaPo confirms what a lot of people have been speculating: Majid Khan will accept a plea deal.
In recent days, Khan, a Pakistani citizen who was a legal U.S. resident, was moved out of the top-security Camp 7, which houses the high-value…
Jake Tapper Flummoxes Jay Carney On White House Press Policy Hypocrisy
We take broadside shots at the press fairly regularly, both directly and as a vehicle for explaining ills and issues surrounding the government and, at least in my case, law. And there have been plenty of said shots aimed at the White House…
Four of Seven Dwarves: Consistent, Courage, Resolute, Cheerful
"Consistent" (Paul), "Courage" (Santorum?!), "Resolute" (Willard), "Cheerful" (Newt)
Those are the one word answers the GOP candidates gave CNN's John King to explain themselves.
All I could think of where the seven dwarves remaining.…
A Victory on DOMA For Karen Golinski
Well, while we ponder what will transpire on the mind numbingly restricted "win" for the Perry Plaintiffs in the 9th Circuit, yet another Northern District of California (NDCA) judge has followed in Vaughn Walker's footsteps and has sent…
MDP: Take Advantage of Taxpayer Funded Right to Screw with GOP Primary
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Michigan Democratic Party Chair, Mark Brewer just sent this video out with the following message.
Friends,
Republicans have extended an invitation to all Michigan Democrats to crossover and vote in the Michigan…
Close, But No Cigar: NYPD within 3 Miles of Faisal Shahzad's Hawala, Missed It
On April 10, 2010, Mohammad Younis, of Centereach, NY, met with Faisal Shahzad at the Ronkonkoma train station and gave him $7,000 in cash. That money went to buy fertilizer, propane, and gasoline that Shahzad used to build a bomb he tried to…
Iran: Parallel to 2003 Rhetoric, Senate War Lobby Objects to Negotiations, IAEA Visit Controversial
Writing on the front page of today's New York Times, Scott Shane finally states what should have been obvious to anyone paying attention to the steady drumbeat from the war mongers over the last couple of years:
Echoes of the period leading…
The Girls' School that Terrifies Ray Kelly
This is the Al Muslimaat Academy, a school for fifth through twelfth grade girls certified by New Jersey's Department of Education. It is one of the many locations in Newark spied on by Ray Kelly's spies in 2007.
They considered it a "Madrassah."
They…
Vagina's Revenge: MI's Women Changing their Mind about Rick Santorum
Go figure. Us womenfolk don't like people to tell us what to do with our bodies.
PPP poll, February 13:
PPP Poll, February 19:
And here's an interesting detail from the February 19 poll: MI's Catholics don't like their fellow…
Elena Kagan Votes With Alito and Thomas To Undermine Miranda
When Elena Kagan was nominated, there were very few of us voicing strenuous objection, one of the primary reasons I did was her complete lack of experience in the adversarial system, especially with her total lack of knowledge and interest in…
Will SCOTUS Invent a "Database-and-Mining" Exception to the Fourth Amendment?
As I noted yesterday, the Administration appealed the 2nd Circuit Decision granting review of the FISA Amendments Act to the Supreme Court last week. I wanted to talk about their argument in more detail here.
Over at Lawfare, Steve Vladeck…
Iran Embraces Bush Doctrine, Press Pulls a Palin
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Among the many gaffes by Sarah Palin during the 2008 presidential campaign, her "In what respect, Charlie?" response to Charles Gibson's "Do you agree with the Bush Doctrine?"…
Bill Keller Blames Leak Arrests that Preceded WikiLeaks on WikiLeaks
Bill Keller has another narcissistic column attacking Julian Assange. The whole thing is rubbish not worth your time, but I did want to unpack the complaint with which Keller ends his column.
“A lot of attention has been focused on WikiLeaks…
The Government Doesn't Want to Talk about Collecting Domestic Communications under FAA
On Friday, the government appealed the 2nd Circuit's decision that Amnesty International and other NGOs and individuals have standing to challenge the FISA Amendments Act. I'll have a post on the implications of their substantive argument shortly.…
"Terror" by Scare Quote
Ten invented or scare quotes. That's what the NY Post employs in an effort to discredit the AP's latest report on the CIA-on-the-Hudson, this time describing surveillance of Muslim college students extending across the Northeast:
“civil rights”
“gotcha”
“workplace…
Rohrabacher's Balochistan Resolution Provokes Massive Anti-US Demonstrations in Pakistan
At a time when US relations with Pakistan were already on edge but potentially moving back toward cooperation on pursuit of terrorists and transport of NATO military supplies, Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) on February 8 dished out…
Reading, Writing, and Real World Skills
There's a bit of a debate on why Harvard sends so many of its grads to become assholes on Wall Street (as opposed to exciting point guards in the NBA?). Ezra Klein argues it's because Wall Street (and Teach for America) model their hiring processes…
The SCOTUS Merrygoround: Is Ginsburg Shuffle Coming?
The UPI has an article up with the startling headline "Ruth Bader Ginsburg stepping down in 2015". The article, which is really more of a pondering question, is bylined today by Michael Kirkland and paints the scenario of a Ruth Bader Ginsburg…
Do We Really Want a Unipolar Middle East?
As we've all been reading tea leaves about whether and when Israel will attack Iran, I've come to suspect we're ignoring an equally important story. That is, to what degree is our post-Arab Spring policy in the Middle East serving Saudi Arabia's…