Noah Shachtman's article on USAF targeting procedures in Afghanistan is worth re-reading. ... despite some speculation to the contrary, it appears that David Petraeus will retain the restrictions described in the above article.
Beloved Maverick and Man of High Principle John McCain gives us some of the Straight Talk (TM) for which he is justly famed: TPMDC asked, "Do you support the Minority.
Good. And here's a blast from the past with a winning strategy: On Tuesday, Rick Lazio, a Republican candidate for governor, appeared at the vote, in an auditorium at Pace.
Discussing the recent whining of Alberto Gonzales who, like Jay Bybee, wants it known that he's one of the real victims of the arbitrary torture regime he helped conceive of and implement, Dahlia Lithwick points out that according to reasonable, moderate, thinking man's advocate of arbitrary...
Republican contempt for the Constitution continues: In the House, Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Tex.) has introduced the Birthright Citizenship Act of 2009, which would attempt to deny children of illegal immigrants.
So long as we're debating the legal and ethical conduct of certain Australians of recent public note, there's this bit of unsurprising news: Penelope Dingle died in August 2005 after.
Dusty Baker removed Travis Wood after 103 pitches tonight, despite the fact that he was pitching a two hit shutout. I am duly impressed. I also worry that these Reds are going to break my heart...
Of course! It's also worth noting that Rudy 9/11's bigoted logic here is straight out of the Jim Crow playbook. According to Dixiecrat senators, the "decent" African-Americans in their.
BTD asserts: The second problem with this question is Bowers not imagining what a GOP President and GOP Congress would have achieved with the elimination of the filibuster. You thought.
As if to illustrate the point made recently by Jon Chait, Doug Mataconis hauls some of the hoariest defenses of the electoral college out of the mothballs: Without it, Presidential candidates would concentrate their resources even more in the areas where the votes are, ignoring the...
This is my last post on Wikileaks for a bit because I'll be on the road with my son for a few days. So far, I've been making the case.
John Kyl.