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Glenn Greenwald as usual does an excellent job summarizing the Orwellian proceedings surrounding the detention and trial of Ahmed Ghailani. One point that bears particular emphasis is that the government,.
The conventional wisdom in the press today is that the conviction of Ahmed Ghailani on only one of 285 possible charges by a civilian court in New York will hobble.
Rosenberg is right -- blame the people who actually make the stupid policies, not the underpaid workers who carry them out.
Predictably, the attempt to topple Pelosi worked out about as well as his NFL career did.
Monday USA TODAY ran a seemingly innocuous little story about a children's book putatively authored by Barack HUSSEIN Obama. Some sharp-eyed patriot at FOX News, always on the alert for.
You know how Van Halen somehow, defying all the odds, managed to replace Sammy Hagar with a lead singer who was even worse? Apparently, Obama is considering doing something similar.
If you assume contemporary congressional Republicans are bargaining in good faith, you're almost certainly wrong.
Jon Chait, formerly the strongest defender of the Catfood Commission among liberal bloggers, sees new data about its inequities and jumps ship. A rare triumph for the self-correcting blogosphere! Albeit.
