Civil Liberties
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Friday, July 25th, 2008The New York Times has a report today about a declassified memo outlining what the CIA can and can’t do to its prisoners. But good luck figuring any of that out from the actual memo. Kevin Drum has a handy visual aid.
Rest assured, none of it is torture, because none of these techniques are used […]
A brief word from our sponsors
Monday, July 14th, 2008Dylan and John are both friends of the blog, and I think they’re mostly right. Threatening to not vote for Obama because he’s disappointed you on a few issues when he’s still, by leaps and bounds, the superior candidate, is really dumb. And this Stephen Suh post is as absurd as the well-deserved takedown by […]
Obama’s ability to occasionally disappoint me proves that he is the Anti-Christ
Friday, July 4th, 2008Help me out here, guys. I can’t decide what’s more annoying about this whole thing. We’ve got two options:
1.) Obama’s super-disappointing and lame response to the criticisms being leveled at him by people who are still sort of fans of the Fourth Amendment,
OR
2.) This shit:
I believe a letter from leading law school deans would be […]
Bobby Jindal is fucking terrifying
Friday, June 27th, 2008Unless you’re in the Peace Corps right now, chances are the artist formerly known as Minipundit is having a far more productive summer than you. Coming to us live from a fancy internship at The American Prospect, Dylan reports that Governor Van Helsing, in addition to being a demon slayer, is also Bruce Willis at […]
The audacity of something
Friday, June 20th, 2008So in my last post, I asked, “Where the fuck is Obama” on retroactive immunity. Little did I know that, as I was blogging away, Obama was revealing to the world where he was: crouched under his desk, hiding from anything that would look like a strong statement in one direction or the other.
Awesome.
Uh, congrats?
Friday, June 20th, 2008Despite their being in the majority, there’s nothing particularly weird about the Democrats surrendering to the Republicans on civil liberties. I mean, that’s what Democrats are good at. If Nancy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer woke up one morning and realized that they were in the majority, it would throw everything out of whack.
You know what […]
Yay, compromise!
Thursday, June 19th, 2008Compromise, paraphrased:
We want retroactive immunity and you don’t. So, as a compromise, how about telecom companies only receive retroactive immunity if we provide evidence that they thought they weren’t doing anything illegal? And by “evidence” we mean, “you taking our word for it.”
Once again, the glorious forces of capitulation have defeated the evil armies of […]
Obama learns lessons of 2006, chooses to ignore them anyway
Thursday, June 19th, 2008Hey, does anyone remember that anti-Lieberman primary challenge in the 2006 Connecticut Senate elections? The one with Ned something? Ned … Ned Lamont? I think I might have mentioned that race here before.
Obama was involved in that one somehow, wasn’t he? Oh yeah, that’s right - he endorsed Lieberman in the primary and then, when […]
Retarded meme of the day
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008“9/10 Democrats”
Because 9/11 is THE DAY THAT CHANGED EVERYTHING.
Habeas corpus as a universal right? THAT’S A 9/10 ATTITUDE.
Translation: SHIT YOUR PANTS IN FEAR, YOU IGNORANT SHEEP. Daddy McCain will protect you.
As Atrios would say: This election is so awesome.
Zelliciousness
Wednesday, May 21st, 2008Check this shit out. Lieberman, who, remember is chair of the Senate Government Oversight Committee (making him the horribly stunted evil twin brother of Henry Waxman, I guess), apparently feels that his time is better spent exercising oversight over … YouTube videos.
As mcjoan points out, the letter that Lieberman’s writing to YouTube is officially being […]