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The President’s Equivocations on State Secrets

By | 04.30.09 | 10:35 am

Among the many subjects President Obama addressed at his news conference last night, he gave a brief nod to the increasingly controversial problem of his administration’s broad use of the “state secrets privilege,” which we’ve been following since January.

Here’s last night’s Q & A on the subject:

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Worst Editorial of the Day

By | 04.28.09 | 11:49 am

It’s got to be “Barack’s in the basement” from The Washington Times, which argues that “at the 100-day mark of his presidency, Mr. Obama is the second-least-popular president in 40 years.”

The only new president less popular was Bill Clinton, who got off to a notoriously bad start after

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Worst Paper on the Whole East Coast

By | 04.28.09 | 10:06 am

The overblown “100 Days of the Obama Presidency” stories will, for the most part, be terrible. But some special honor must be paid to the dippy “100 Mistakes” list featured in the New York Post (which endorsed Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) for president, if that matters). There are some More…