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Michael Mukasey urged Congress to give him a spanking new ass-cover: (more…)

This month there are those recognizing this fourth anniversary (the decision was announced, actually, a week ago):

Palestinian leaders today said they would seek UN sanctions against Israel after the international court of justice ruled that the barrier being built around the West Bank was illegal and should be pulled down. (more…)

Damn it’s done. The Senate overwhelmingly approved neo-FISA by a vote of 69-28.

41 votes? What the??? At least our Senators voted against it.

And so the telecoms are popping the corks, and here’s my fantasy of Pelosi and Reid explaining to us why the Fourth Amendment had to go the way of the dodo:

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There’s an old story about three umpires.
Umpire 1: “There’s balls and strikes, and I call them as I see them.”
Umpire 2: “There’s balls and strikes, and I call them as they are.”
Umpire 3: “There’s balls and strikes, but they ain’t nothing til I call ‘em.”

There’s national sovereignty and there’s colonial tutelage, and they ain’t nothing until we call ‘em too. (more…)

Food riots. People eating mud to ward off hunger pangs. Starvation going up. And meanwhile, there’s collusion in starvation, and then there’s collusion in starvation: (more…)

It all depends on your point of view.  (more…)

Iraq — a democracy made in its conqueror’s image? According to a New York Times expose, in some respects, perhaps: 

A number of the half-dozen badly wounded Iraqis interviewed for this article said they had been effectively drummed out of the Iraqi security forces without pensions, or were receiving partial pay and in danger of losing even that… (more…)

For the record, Barack Obama appears still capable of taking an actual stand on something. The text of his letter to the Alice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic Club in California. (more…)

Better late than never.

The US Senate has approved a bill to remove former South African president Nelson Mandela and his African National Congress from the US terror watch list…  (more…)

You’d think we’d come a long ways from the days of “no Irish need apply,” and all the other exclusionary nonsense that passed for all-Americanism. Salam Al-Marayati and Steven B. Jacobs point out that if that’s what you think, you might be mistaken: (more…)