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Thoreau, I think Pope Ben should let Blair convert to Catholicism after Tony passes an exam on Catholic Just War Theory.

By Thoreau
You get the drill. The Senate has subpoenaed records relating to the illegal wiretaps that that Stasi NSA conducted. If they hand the records over, we’ll probably have incontrovertible proof of violations of FISA and grounds for impeachment. If they don’t hand it over, the matter will go to court. [...]

Surely we can do better!
The Totalitarian Temptation from Heraclitus to Hudson Trail Outfitters
The Totalitarian Temptation from Plato to Piggly Wiggly
The Totalitarian Temptation from Aristotle to Anthropologie
The Totalitarian Temptation from Lucretius to Lane Bryant
The Totalitarian Temptation from the Venerable Bede to Bailey Banks and Biddle
The Totalitarian Temptation from Epictetus to Eddie Bauer
The Totalitarian Temptation from Marcus [...]

The Stiftung writes about “the incomprehensible scale of wasteful, stupid, possibly illegal if not illegitimate contracting that has gone on” within the intelligence community in general and the Department of Homeland Security in particular.
IOZ writes about “the CEO president.” (Remember him?)

By Thoreau
This week’s science news involves those adorable creatures known as penguins: It appears that 36 million years ago the tropical areas of Peru were populated by giant penguins, standing taller than today’s Emperor Penguins (subjects of “March of the Penguins”). Penguins do exist far north of Antarctica today, but they’re smaller, and this [...]

By Mona
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Americablog has video and sums up NBC’s David Gregory, who tsk-tsks that one simply needs to learn to understand that Ann makes oh-so-very serious points, and it is short-sighted for Elizabeth Edwards or anyone else to focus on Ann’s hateful rhetoric:

Because, you know, if you strip away the fact that [...]

By Mona
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HTML Mencken reports on a very special football game, in which my personal fave of all the depraved neocons, Michael Ledeen, throws a penalty flag, and Andy McCarthy rends his garment jersey whilst declaring the End is Near.