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Journal Lambasts Menendez for Trying to Save Bank, Buries Key Facts

By | 02.09.10 | 11:40 am

Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), who chairs the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, is under fire in The Wall Street Journal today for a poorly written letter drafted by a legislative assistant and likely signed by the office auto-pen.

In his letter to the Fed July 21, Mr. Menendez said

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Media Allowed to Cover National Tea Party Convention: Fox, WorldNetDaily, Breitbart

By | 01.14.10 | 12:28 pm

The organizers of the National Tea Party Convention in Nashville have announced which media outlets will get full access to the event. “Everyone from a small town newspaper in Iowa to Fox News has asked for press credentials,” say organizers in a press release. “We have had requests from More…

Conservatives Attack Administration for Upholding Constitution

By | 12.29.09 | 1:23 pm

The Wall Street Journal, Pat Buchanan and others are already condemning the Obama administration for treating Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab as a civilian criminal rather than an illegal warrior to whom we can presumably do whatever we please. We are in “a war,” The Journal More…

‘Surge’ And ‘Escalation’ Are Not Synonyms

By | 12.01.09 | 9:48 am

Let’s be very specific about what we mean when we describe the troop increase that President Obama is expected to announce tonight. I see the headline of this Wall Street Journal piece reads:

U.S. Opts for Limited Surge

Two things. First, a “surge” is not the same thing as More…

International Justice Group Takes Aim at Bush Officials

By | 11.16.09 | 10:53 am

The International Center for Transitional Justice usually focuses on bringing to light and holding perpetrators accountable for such heinous crimes as genocide, mass murder and systematic torture, often in far-off war-torn countries with dismal human rights records.

So it’s significant that today they’ve released a report More…

Military to Seek Death Penalty for Fort Hood Massacre

By | 11.13.09 | 8:59 am

Even though the military justice system hasn’t actually executed anyone in over 50 years, military prosecutors have decided to seek the death penalty in the case of alleged Fort Hood shooter Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, The Wall Street Journal reports this morning. Hasan was charged with 13 counts More…

9/11 Masterminds Could Face Trial in Federal Court

By | 10.21.09 | 6:00 am

As the Obama administration nears its deadline for deciding where to try the men suspected of masterminding the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorists attacks, there are strong indications that those trials could take place in federal courts in the United States. That’s prompting fervent opposition from Republicans, who say the 9/11 More…

Greg Craig: I’m Not Resigning

By | 10.13.09 | 10:09 am

White House Counsel Gregory Craig, a longtime Washington insider who’s faced mounting criticism for his role in the Obama administration’s plans to close the Guantanamo Bay prison, said on Friday that he has no plans to resign from his post.

“I have no plans to leave whatsoever,” More…

Alberto Gonzales: The Opera

By | 09.04.09 | 3:14 pm

Yes, that’s the opera based on the transcripts of the former attorney general’s bumbling testimony about the U.S. attorney firing scandal back in 2007.

A 29-year-old Australian, Melissa Dunphy, wrote the opera in part because she felt sorry for Gonzales, as she tells the Wall Street Journal. It’s More…

What Would Kennedy Do?

By | 08.26.09 | 12:13 pm

Former George W. Bush speechwriter Marc Thiessen today commends the Bush administration’s “well-run, highly disciplined CIA interrogation program, where clear guidelines were established and abuses or deviations from approved techniques were stopped, reported and addressed.”

I guess Thiessen didn’t read the same CIA inspector general report More…