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From the folks at Comedy Central: The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c Michael Steele’s Rap Battle Response comedycentral.com Colbert Report Full Episodes Political…

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Paul Krugman demonstrates, yet again, that he is the single most effective critic of the Obama Administration’s emerging economic policies, put through another series of harsh tests this week: This…

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As Israeli politics make a leap to the right, Ethan Bronner charts the growing public debate in Israel over techniques used in the assault on Gaza in a compelling article:…

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Congressional Quarterly reports that Attorney General Eric Holder reads the news but feels no obligation to act on what he has learned: The clamor for a Justice Department probe into…

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More seriously bad news. The New York Times reports that around the globe, manufacturing is in a freefall: That manufacturing is in decline is hardly surprising, but the depth and…

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The Associated Press reports on the Bush presentation behind closed doors in Calgary: ”This is my maiden voyage. My first speech since I was the president of the United States…

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In the unendingly bizarre world of politics and criminal justice in Alabama, a civil war seems to have erupted within the ranks of the all-powerful Alabama G.O.P. With the head…

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Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, Colin Powell’s chief of staff, offers a reprise of important points about Guantánamo “that the media largely missed.” They “largely missed” just about everything, of course. Still,…

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One moment still serves to define the Bush Administration’s relationship with the press. On April 29, 2006, comedian Stephen Colbert addressed the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, with President Bush present,…

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One of the most important lessons of the Great Depression can be taken from the political, rather than the economic, response. As economic collapse shook the faith of populations a…

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AIG executives, we’re told, argue that they have to proceed with the nine figures in bonus payments because there are contractual commitments in place. From what I see, their analysis…

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It looked bad for Republicans in September 2006, not quite six weeks away from midterm elections. In the White House, President Bush stepped to the podium with a dramatic announcement.…

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Among George W. Bush’s controversial legal maneuvers was a repackaging of the notion of “enemy combatant.” If the President determined a person was an “enemy combatant,” the Bush Justice lawyers…

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De todo lo dicho quiero que infirais, bobas mías, que es grande la confusion que hay entre los linages, y que solos aquellos parecen grandes y ilustres, que lo muestran…

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The Obama Justice Department yesterday again embraced a position of the Bush Administration that Senator Obama appeared to have criticized on the campaign trail. Daphne Eviatar reports in the Washington…

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Journalist Seymour Hersh sparked my interest in military law in May 1970 when I picked up a copy of Harper’s and read his article entitled “My Lai 4: A report…

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Fred Hiatt’s Washington Post editorial page, having misrepresented the scientific data on global warming, now takes one more step down the yellow brick road by taking on the Charles Freeman…

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The Associated Press reports: The Justice Department may have hoodwinked a defendant in a high-profile terrorism case into thinking his plea bargain would protect him from further prosecutions, a federal…

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As Ken Silverstein notes, Chas Freeman threw in the towel yesterday in the face of increasingly furious criticism that manipulated very few facts other than one which was well-documented: Freeman…

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Juan Cole is one of the nation’s leading historians focusing on the Middle East. Over the past decade he has emerged as a commentator on Middle East policy and a…

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Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman has his knives out. This is the toughest and the most intuitively correct of all the attacks on Obama economic policy: President Obama’s plan…

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As journalists and legal archeologists busily chart their misdeeds, it seems that the inner cabal within the Bush Administration that brought you torture and warrantless surveillance is having some serious…

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True, we haven’t yet hit 100 days. But we’re coming close to the halfway mark, and so far the Obama team seems to have a penchant for keeping all of…

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Justice After Bush: Should Former Administration Officials be Prosecuted? A Public Forum on Tuesday, March 10, 2009, 4:30 PM, Computer Science 104, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey After September 11,…

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There are 678 federal judges. Roughly two-thirds of them are Republican appointees, and roughly two-thirds of that number–around half of the total–were appointed by George W. Bush. During his presidency…

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