Don't believe me about whether FISA authorizes warrantless wiretaps? Well, you may want to ask our famously libertarian attorney general what he thinks:"Now, in terms of legal authorities, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act provides -- requires a court order before engaging in this kind of...
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Kieran offers a taxonomy of bullshit-libertarian justifications for arbitrary executive power. The take on InstaCrocodileTears is particularly priceless: "Oh, puh-leeze. This is nothing new. It's been going on for years--Americans.
I had been wondering about this. In particular, I wanted to get a look at the aircraft carriers currently in the Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility in Bremerton. Sadly, the.
jedmunds at Pandagon comments on some of the apparent oddities in the UCLA study on Media Bias that has been embraced by, amongst others, our friend Jeff Goldstein. This deserves a longer post and a more thorough investigation, which I may or may not get...
Two more excellent posts by Glenn Greenwald on the Bush's Administration's illegal searches. First, he finds Hugh Hewitt citing United States v. United States District Court (1972) on behalf of.
I'm a big fan of the newly controversial Ang Lee. Although I don't think it's terribly well-regarded, I think The Ice Storm is a great movie. (I actually think I.
Matt Bai. The problem with bad analogies and meaningless catchphrases is that they can conceal the fact--apparently even from the author--that the underlying arguments are just utterly illogical on their face. To the extent that the workforce is becoming more insecure and workers have fewer...
Shakes notes the latest emerging talking point, which will be to say that the Democrats approved of Bush's illegal searches, so nobody can complain. Like Shakes, I'm pretty dubious about.
Billmon on why the "Trust him! He's the President!" approach to evaluating the constitutionality of government actions now favored by conservertarians may be suboptimal.
It is, of course, not surprising to see the bullshit-libertarian blogosphere taking a dive for Bush's illegal searches (although some principled conservatives and actual libertarians are clear about what's going on.) The ultimate example has to be Jeff Goldstein, who argues that the warrantless searches...
Ugh.I like Washburn a little bit more than most stat-heads; three of his last five years have been genuinely good, two have been mediocre. There are reasons to be concerned.
This really gets to the rub:There's only one way to scare the craven apologists in Category II: remind them of the very real possibility of a Hillary Clinton presidency in.