Firedoglake (Free subscription) | yesterday
Listening to a Cheney give advice about how to "win" in Afghanistan is rather like asking an arsonist what to do about your house as it burns to the ground.
Emptywheel (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Mary has already linked to this article on how and why Greg Craig got thrown out in comments. But I wanted to make sure everyone read it. The short version of the timeline it describes is: April 16: Obama releases the torture memos April 17: Greg Craig moves to release Uighurs in US April 20: Dick Cheney says [...]
Feed Your ADHD (Free subscription) | yesterday
It’s at times like this that you really begin to wonder about the mentality of your fellow country men. Judging by the results of these two searches, that I have just done on Google UK, it looks like we have serious fucking problems here. Nearly 14 million searches asking if Barack Obama is Dick Cheney’s cousin? WTFF! And [...]
IPBiz (Free subscription) | yesterday
According to a source to abovethelaw: [Chief Judge Michel] said he’s motivated to retire instead of moving to senior judge status because he hates the muzzle that comes with being an Article III judge. He wants to lobby. He feels pretty strongly that certain parts of the pending patent reform act are outrageous. Lest we forget, recall the words of [former] NJ Judge Mathesius who described [former...
The Political Carnival (Free subscription) | yesterday
By GottaLaff Via Greg Sargent , a great excerpt from Sully: [H]ere’s Andrew Sullivan on why the Cheney clan is waging a death struggle against transfering Gitmo detainees to U.S. soil : What Cheney fears, I suspect, is that Gitmo will be shut down, that history will record it as the lowest point in US human rights ever, that the Cheney family will be tarred as the brand that destroyed America’s...
DeadDog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Liz Cheney said on Fox News that her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, should run for President in 2012. In fact, that’s apparently in the Mayan calendar too. Dick Cheney becomes president, then the world ends… - Jay Leno
Off The Grid (Free subscription) | yesterday
......and in other news, Dick Cheney, Bill Kristol , Rush Limbaugh, Karl Rove and Anne Coulter remained unscathed today as thousands of really decent people met untimely deaths across the planet. Coming up: Scientists categorically disprove concept of "Karma".
Bakersfield.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is scheduled to speak at next year's Bakersfield Business Conference, joining a growing list of political heavy-hitters including former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and former Vice President Dick Cheney. Country music performer Ronnie Milsap also has agreed to take part in the conference, event organizers announced.
Cracker Squire (Free subscription) | yesterday
From a column by Frank Rich in The New York Times : After the Palin-McCain ticket lost, conservative pundits admonished her to start studying the issues. If “Going Rogue” and its promotional interviews are any indication, she has ignored their entreaties during her months at liberty. Last week, Greta Van Susteren chastised Oprah for not asking Palin “one policy question,” but...
The Reaction (Free subscription) | yesterday
By Mustang Bobby . Jack Kelley, a columnist for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and The Blade in Toledo, and the poor man's William Kristol, is railing against President Obama's "vendetta" against the Bush administration. Former Justice Department official Shannen Coffin thinks the real reason for a civilian trial is that President Obama hopes KSM and his lawyers will attack the Bush administration....
Daily Kos (Free subscription) | yesterday
This is what counts as a liberal these days? Steve Benen pretty much nailed it with these observations: Obama isn't "leading with his chin"; he's tackling the issues in front of him. That's what presidents do. Obama bowed to the Japanese emperor as a matter of protocol, and no one cares except the media establishment. Obama isn't "dithering" -- though it's good to know Chris Matthews...
Nag on the Lake (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
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Lerterland (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
I didn't vote for him on November 3, but Mike Bloomberg has done the country a service and I wanted to acknowledge it. In stark contrast to his predecessor, the insufferable demagogue Rudy Giuliani, Bloomberg has voiced support for Eric Holder's decision to try KSM and other 9/11 defendants in a civilian court here in New York. One now sees why President Obama endorsed Bill Thompson only halfheartedly...
Don Surber (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Chris Matthews of MSNBC chastised Barack Obama for dithering on Afghanistan. Dick Cheney has succeeded in labeling Obama as a ditherer. As for Matthews, well, B.B. King said it best…
The Telegraph India (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
A tall American visits a Japanese man and his wife, both shorter than him, for dinner. They receive him on the steps of their home, and the guest greets his host by shaking his hands and bowing low at the same time. Then they all go in and have dinner. This, rather unremarkable, display of good manners would have been quite forgotten by now had the guest not been the American president and his hosts...
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