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Archive: Jun 2009

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The public plan has a very particular political lineage: The lesson liberals took from the 1994 health reform fight was that you couldn’t threaten the insurance coverage individuals already had.…

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Six Questions for David Beito, Author of Black Maverick

T.R.M. Howard was not everyone’s idea of a civil rights hero, and his accomplishments have been widely neglected. But as historians David Beito and Linda Royster Beito demonstrate in their…

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Day and night bombs, shells, GBU39 radioactive arms, and machine gun rounds are being fired by the Israeli Defense Forces from air, sea, and land against a civilian population of…

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Law Lords Hand British Government Setback on Detentions Policy

Just as the Obama Administration appears to be revving up to propose a new regime of administrative detentions, Britain’s highest court has handed the government of Gordon Brown a serious…

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The Myth of Gates as Defense Reformer

Dana Milbank had a good story in today’s Washington Post about Congress larding up the defense bill: This meeting of the Senate Military-Industrial Caucus will now come to order. The…

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More on Ambassadorships for Sale

From the Washington Post: President Obama has been taking flak of late for giving fat-cat donors cushy ambassadorial posts. Despite some early signals that merit — knowledge of the local…

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Pentagon Flies the Friendly Skies

From the Center for Public Integrity: Despite the Pentagon’s big budgets, DOD personnel routinely accept free flights, accommodations, and hospitality from outside interests, according to a Center for Public Integrity…

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The Tom Daschle Effect: Terry McAuliffe crushed in Virginia

The former Clinton bagman goes down in Virginia. How delightful. As with Tom Daschle, Barack Obama’s misguided choice to run Health and Human Services, it seems Americans are tired of…

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The Roberts Quartet and Justice for Sale

This week, the Supreme Court handed down an important decision on good-government grounds in the case of Caperton v. Massey. The case came out of West Virginia, where competing mining…

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UN Rapporteur: Rumsfeld in Trouble

The senior United Nations expert on the integrity of legal processes states that beginning next year, Donald Rumsfeld will have difficulties traveling outside of the United States because of his…

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Can you imagine what a craven, bumlicking ass-goblin you’d have to be to get a job working for the Wall Street Journal, not mention up front that you used to…

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Counterfeiting Washington

The current flap over CIA torture briefings serves to highlight a long-standing dispute between the Executive and Congress over access to classified or sensitive information. As Congressional leaders have repeatedly…

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Unprecedented Growth In Israeli Settlements

From the Israeli daily newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth, via Americans for Peace Now: They are the focus of President Obama’s interest in the Middle East and are even liable to cause…

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Cheney, the DOJ, and Torture: Two Takes

On Sunday, the New York Times led with a story by Scott Shane and David Johnston entitled “U.S. Lawyers Agreed on Legality of Brutal Tactic.” Yesterday, the Washington Post’s Dan…

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Federal Court Legalizes Illegal Campaign Contributions

From Associated Press: A federal judge dismissed two of three campaign finance violation charges Monday against a prominent Los Angeles attorney for allegedly funneling $26,000 to Sen. John Edwards’ 2004…

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Depression Chic

The rich really are different. From the Los Angeles Times: Coffee tables made from barrels. Lamps crafted from brooms. Chairs swathed in burlap and sackcloth. Look at the some of…

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Weekly Review

An American cattleman. President Barack Obama visited Cairo and addressed the Muslim world in a 55-minute speech that the White House arranged to be televised, text-messaged in four languages, and…

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There’s no mistaking what’s going on in the speech delivered last week. No preliminary niceties; just a rehearsal of Obama’s actions and expectations. Eight “I”’s right off the bat: “Just…

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No NIMBY Problem in India on Jailing Terrorists

From Indian Express: Mumbai: On June 3, the high-security Arthur Road Jail saw a new superintendent taking charge….[J]ail superintendent Rajendra Dhamne…is responsible for guarding 26/11 gunman Ajmal Kasab, one of…

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Glazed or Cream-Filled? Jesus and Donuts

Life without Jesus is like a donut, because there’s a hole in the middle of your heart. Via Dan Savage.

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Doing Business With Phil Gramm’s Bank

From Bloomberg: California billionaire Igor Olenicoff had already invested $200 million with UBS AG in 2001 when his Swiss bankers ushered him to an underground vault in Geneva. Olenicoff, a…

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Why Comedians Love Dick Cheney

You can refute him all you like, but no modern American politician can be quite so effectively ridiculed as Dick Cheney. What will we do when he’s gone? The Daily…

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The Lobby

At times it seems like Washington is one gigantic lobbying machine. To wit: Insurers and drug companies are working to gut health care reform. Big Tobacco wrote the tobacco bill.…

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How Many Law Firms Does It Take to Figure out Where a Congressman Lives?

If you are Congressman Robert Wexler, the answer is three. Rep. Robert Wexler (D-Fla.) paid more than $6,700 in legal fees in the first quarter of this year, funds spent…

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Emerson’s World-Soul

Thanks to the morning light, Thanks to the seething sea, To the uplands of New Hampshire, To the green-haired forest free; Thanks to each man of courage, To the maids…

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Plato’s World-Soul

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Holder Admits More Prosecutorial Misconduct in Public Integrity Cases

Late Thursday the Justice Department announced it had asked a federal appeals court to return to the district court cases arising from the convictions of two Alaska state representatives, given…

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