Judge Anna Diggs Taylor, today, in her ruling that Chimpus Maximus’s NSA wiretap program is a clear violation of the Fourth Amendment.
Not that the Bushes will pay attention. She may be a federal judge and all, but what school did her father go to?
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Who could possibly believe the whole Iran thing isn’t a crisis?
A group of 21 former U.S. generals, diplomats, and national security officials, that’s who. Including a former head of U.S. Central Command under Bush 41.
They’re releasing an open letter tomorrow explaining why they believe the Bush administration’s hard-line policies are just making the problems worse.
Given the way Israel’s bombing campaign probably left Hezbollah stronger than it was before… not too hard to understand.
These guys should just be glad they weren’t picked up three or four years ago
Charges against the Michigan cell phone "terrorists" have been dismissed.
These state anti-terrorism should really start looking into Gold’s Gym and 24-Hour Fitness and the YMCA. I hear there are large stockpiles of sports drinks in there.
Same logic.
The main reason we have troops in Iraq (while Osama is two countries to the east)
New Zogby poll:
Three-quarters of Americans can correctly identify two of Snow White’s seven dwarfs while only a quarter can name two Supreme Court justices…
[snip]
Asked what planet Superman was from, 60 per cent named the fictional planet Krypton, while only 37 per cent knew that Mercury was the planet closest to the sun.
Respondents are far more familiar with the Three Stooges – Larry, Curly and Moe – than the three branches of the US Government – judicial, executive and legislative. Seventy-four per cent identified the former, while 42 per cent identified the latter.
Gaaah.
Actual praise for a TV anchor
Chuck Roberts on CNN Headline News, interviewing Ned Lamont, just apologized for these comments by saying this:
You know, I owe you an apology. Last week, I led into an interview with a guest analyst and really botched the set-up. The guest had wanted to discuss the Dick Cheney and Joe Lieberman statements suggesting that terror groups — Al Qaeda types, to use Cheney’s words — would be buoyed by your win, but I posed it badly, stupidly ad-libbing about "some saying Lamont is the Al-Qaeda candidate." No one, in fact, used that construction. Anyway, I wanted to correct the record, and I’m glad we had this chance to do it. Now, let’s get to the insinuations that were lobbed…
After which the guy gave Lamont the chance to rebut Cheney and Lieberman.
Same reservations I always have about news media. But for once, somebody did the right thing. Cheers.
PS — Just back from Florida where I had limited access to the Internet, air conditioning, and my own common sense. This worked out surprisingly well. More as I unpack.