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Key Obama Adviser: No Second Thoughts About Moving Health Care Before Climate Bill

By | 10.27.10 | 10:02 am

Melody Barnes, President Obama’s top domestic policy adviser, said today that the Obama administration does not have second thoughts about pushing health care legislation before a cap-and-trade bill. Some have argued that the administration’s aggressive push to pass a health care bill took the wind out of the sails of More…

Kaplan: Fort Hood Shows We Need More Muslim Soldiers

By | 11.16.09 | 2:44 pm

Robert Kaplan on the real lessons of Fort Hood:

The massacre at Fort Hood, Texas, in which 13 soldiers were shot and killed by Army Maj. Nidal Hasan, paradoxically took my memory back to April 2004, when I was embedded with a Marine battalion during the first

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Vagueness Is Not a Crime, But It May Suggest Intent to Commit One

By | 08.25.09 | 9:35 am

Patrick Appel, who is filling in for Andrew Sullivan at The Daily Dish, yesterday suggested that I was accusing John Yoo & Co. in the Bush Justice Department of the “crime” of approving vague CIA interrogation guidelines. Appel writes:

This seems more likely to be raised in defense

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Bill Ayers Is Back — Dressed Up as a Wise Latina

By | 07.15.09 | 2:06 pm

Claiming that Americans must “Stop Sotomayor” from wreaking havoc and terrorism on the country from a perch on the nation’s highest court, this new Committee for Justice ad warns that like “Barack Obama’s buddy, Bill Ayers,”  Judge Sonia Sotomayor led a group supporting violent terrorists. That support apparently took More…

One Need Look No Further Than John Yoo for Evidence of Executive Lawbreaking

By | 07.13.09 | 8:56 am

The explosive inspectors general report released on Friday makes one thing increasingly clear: the Bush White House knew that it was probably breaking the law.

From the report itself, John Yoo’s Office of Legal Counsel memo — and the lightning-fast reporting of Spencer Ackerman, Marc Ambinder and More…