Unqualified Offerings

By Mona
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He could do nothing else. Tomorrow, Sen. Joe Lieberman ( Bushite, CT), reportedly will completely abandon his former Democratic Party to endorse McCain for preznit in ‘08. (The sun will also rise.) And hot damn, respect for Lieberman just grows and grows among the enlightened.
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And P.S. I’m no Hillary fan — [...]

By Mona
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This Greenwald post* — The Lawless Surveillance State — is worth reading for several reasons. First, it turns out that the govt and govt-corporate alliances were conducting much lawless spying and data mining before 9/11, and some targets are those “enemy combatants” in the War on Drugs. Why knock me [...]

By Thoreau
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By Thoreau
Greenwald’s latest post on telecoms amnesty mostly focuses on the relationship between telecoms companies and government, and how it’s hard to distinguish between the two. But there’s also this gem on the media:
Ultimately, what is most significant about all of this is how the most consequential steps our government takes — such as [...]

By Thoreau
Why is it considered a sign of lunacy to say that Bush (or Cheney) lied and people died?  As near as I can tell, that’s what actually happened.  Sure, any actual article of impeachment will have to flesh it out a bit, but that’s a pretty good synopsis of what happened in the run-up [...]

Tom Boswell of the Post offends me:
Baseball has lived a lie since the late ’80s, then stonewalled throughout the ’90s, as a corrupting “code of silence,” as the Mitchell report calls it, dragged the game to the bottom rung of the moral-authority ladder in American sports.
(My emphasis.) Dude! “Bottom of the moral-authority ladder?” How dare [...]

Scott Horton and Charlie Savage on plans for a new, more Soviet corps of military lawyers.

More signs of global warming . . .
NEW YORK—Steaming black-guy heads, the traditional sign of approaching winter for generations of football fans, have been occurring later in the season with every passing year, a fact that may be evidence of a climatic change with long-term effects on football itself, top scientists in the meteorological department [...]

Creationist stabs evolutionist to death!

Mr. Gary Farber on the telecoms and amnesty:
After such a full and public investigation, decisions can be made as to the proper course of justice, but obviously it’s impossible for those decisions to be properly made without investigation and disclosure.
It occurs to me that the rush to telecom amnesty before any investigation perfectly mirrors the [...]