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by Ugh This is a bit dated, but Jack Goldsmith, whose claim to fame is being less insane than John Yoo and Jay Bybee, and Jane Harman, former Democratic congresswoman and now President of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (NOT the one at Princeton, it seems), had an Op-Ed in the WaPo entitled "What should … Read more

by Ugh It’s Super Bowl weekend. My pick is Seattle winning 34-10. I just don’t think New England is the good, they were lucky to beat Baltimore. Seattle was even more lucky to beat Green Bay, but I don’t see Russell Wilson having a god awful game again Tiger Woods is back and… He’s terrible. … Read more

by Ugh Greetings everyone from a cold as all get out French "no go" zone, aka Berlin.  Looks like that, while I was kinda busy, SCOTUS really does want to decide whether states can discriminate on the basis of sex in granting marriage rights.  Of course, it didn't quite put it that way (and, uh, NYTimes?  maybe … Read more

by Ugh Is it just me or is the whole "the U.S. didn't send a sufficiently high level official/Obama himself to march in Paris – outrage!" thing ridiculous?  I'd dismiss it as mindless partisan blather, but then the White House starts saying it should have done so.  Perhaps they're of the mind "meh, there's no … Read more

by Ugh Or not.  Talk about whatever, holiday related or otherwise.   It seems this Friday is the perfect day for a nice government document dump, who knows what will happen!  Related, and to the surprise of no one who knows anything about the inner workings of the IRS, Darrel Issa has yet to find … Read more

by Ugh I always thought our post-Castro Cuban policy was insane (and the embargo continues to be insane).  It certainly has been insane since the fall of the USSR.   How is it that we could normalize relations with Vietnam and China, each of which killed thousands of U.S. soldiers in, you know, actual full … Read more

by Ugh It seems it's been released.  Washington Post copy here.  WaPo story on the report here.  From the WaPo story: After being transferred to a site in Thailand, Zubaida was placed in isolation for 47 days, a period during which the presumably important source on al-Qaeda faced no questions. Then, at 11:50 a.m. on … Read more

by Ugh Some comments on the midterm post have delved into the ACA and what's going on at SCOTUS and the state itself.  I was going to write a post on this but haven't had time.  So, take any angle you want on the ACA, no need to respond to the below. Proponents of the … Read more

by Ugh A thread to discuss the elections today specifically and our glorious experiment in representative democracy generally.  I guess things won't heat up until the polls start closing tonight, but it would be irresponsible not to speculate!  I know, not a traditional use of the internets, but let's try and break new ground. This, … Read more

by Ugh This week in celebration worthy surveillance and other intelligence agency and related revelations: Nazis!  And not the Illinois kind:  "In all, historians told the New York Times, J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI and Allen Dulles’s CIA hired at least 1,000 Nazis — if not more."  Good times!  Also, too, this side note from the article, "Along … Read more