Unqualified Offerings

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Gene Healy on Barack Obama and Dick Cheney, secret lovers.

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A little follow-up on the Joe Klein/Charles Krauthammer business from this morning.
1. Imagine a quadriplegic antiwar writer whose recurring theme is the ethical and practical limits of American hegemony. It’s very easy to believe a hawkish critic [...]

By Mona
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That’s largely what The One and the Democratic Congress are giving us.  See Greenwald and Digby, commenting on Obama’s rhetorically pretty but internally inconsistent speech today.
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Greenwald:

The fact that a Democratic President who ran on a platform of restoring Constitutional principles — along with huge hordes of his supporters — will [...]

By Thoreau
Noting that it is simply not safe to have terrorists in our prisons, Hilzoy ponders what to do with the latest terrorist cell found by the FBI:
I’d suggest killing them, cutting them into pieces, and shipping their parts to parts unknown immediately (trials? who can afford trials under these circumstances?), if I weren’t afraid [...]

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While “hate” is a strong word, it’s a reasonable description of my feelings for Charles Krauthammer. But some of my fellow Krauthammer-haters spent yesterday lamely defending the indefensible, and it does none of us any credit. [...]

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Kelly Vlahos on the electrocutioners at KBR:
Scahill quotes a former military official once in charge of such contracts, saying the bonuses were paid out of fear KBR would cease work, that they became  “too [...]