The incomparably pernicious Joe Lieberman said yesterday on Fox News that he intends to launch an investigation into "the motives of [Nidal] Hasan in carrying out this brutal mass murder, if a terrorist attack, the worst terrorist attack since 9/11."  Hasan's attack was carri …

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David Brooks today says he wanted to write a column about Obama's pending decision over Afghanistan, and in order to write this column, this is what he tells us he did: "For the past few days I have tried to do what journalists are supposed to do." Sounds intrepid.

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In her Sunday Times column, Maureen Dowd gave up on her resistance to linking racism and the opposition.

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Ok, this is like a year old opinion piece by Glenn Greenwald. (May,2008) Its from his blog on salon.com I think its relevant today as it was in 2008 and as it was 2003.

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Back in February, The New York Times' Charlie Savage -- who won the Pulitzer Prize for exposing Bush's use of signing statements to break the law -- wrote an article reporting that, after a first-week Executive Order from Obama banning torture, "the Obama administration is quietl …

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It was one thing when President Obama reversed himself last month by announcing that he would appeal the Second Circuit's ruling that the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) compelled disclosure of various photographs of detainee abuse sought by the ACLU.

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This Fox News interview with Virg Bernero -- the Mayor of highly unionized Lansing, Michigan and himself the son of a retired GM worker -- is, for several reasons, really worth watching (h/t Brainwrap).

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Obama was crazy to put so much emphasis on bipartisanship. Whether he was just plain crazy or crazy like a fox, I don't know. We'll see.

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For the last seven years, Democrats have repeatedly cited GOP political dominance to excuse their wholesale failures to limit, let alone reverse, the devastating war waged by the Bush administration on America's core liberties and form of government.

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The bipartisan Senate Armed Services Committee report issued on Thursday -- which documents that "former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other senior U.S.

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The backlash from the "intelligence community" over John Brennan's withdrawal -- which pro-Brennan sources are now claiming was actually forced on Brennan by the Obama team -- continues to intensify.

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Whatever else one might want to say about "bipartisanship," there is nothing new about it.

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The international community now has a potent new motivating tool to dissuade world leaders from engaging in tyranny and aggression -- tell them they'll be like George Bush if they do it:

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Joe Biden, speaking yesterday at a rally in Ohio (h/t Jonathan Schwarz):

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The New York Times today has a very strange, lengthy front-page story on Cindy McCain -- by Jodi Kantor and David Halbfinger -- dredging up some unpleasant episodes in the distant past of her private life without adding any new information, sprinkling some innuendo about the McCa …

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It's simply not possible to lie more deliberately or flagrantly than this: McCain campaign manager Rick Davis on Fox News this morning, when asked by Chris Wallace about the Troopergate report issued on Friday:

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There are few things that make political coverage more unbearable -- and more distorting -- than The David Brooks Syndrome: the extremely patronizing and ill-informed pretense, shared by media and right-wing elites alike, that they can study the Little Common Person like a zoo an …

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It is illegal in the State of Alaska to fail to comply with legislative subpoenas.

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The very notion of the "Liberal Media" is one of the most inane myths in American politics -- something spat out and repeated in the lowest right-wing sewers for so long that it has become conventional wisdom -- but Halperin's frequent vouching for that myth, in his role of "jour …

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Following up on this weekend's extreme raids on various homes, at least 50 people were arrested here today in St. Paul, Minnesota. Beginning last night, St.

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The mainstream media only serves as a bull horn for the White House. Any real scrutiny would interfere with their detente arrangement and create tensions. The Fourth Estate no longer exists, and we now have a Ministry of Propaganda...

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But almost immediately after the FBI leaked this theory as to when and how Ivins traveled to New Jersey undetected, it was pointed out in several online venues, including here, that this timeline made no sense whatsoever -- that, indeed, the FBI's own theories were self-contradic …

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[A TomDispatch recommendation: Bill Moyers had Andrew Bacevich on his "Journal" for an hour Friday night, discussing his new book, The Limits of Power (which is now the number one bestseller at Amazon).

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A commenter here on Friday noted what appears to be a rather glaring contradiction in the case against Bruce Ivins.

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2008.08.08 | Accountability Now PAC | Money Bomb Richard Nixon, August 8, 1974, 9:01 p.m.

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