When President Obama travels to Egypt this week, he’s likely to confront some difficult questions about U.S. immigration law — specifically, why does it allow a man acquitted of criminal charges that he supported terrorism to be tried again on essentially the same claims in immigration court?
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In insisting during his speech yesterday that President Obama and the CIA declassify the memos that he claims will show the effectiveness of the so-called “enhanced interrogation techniques,” former vice president and anointed Republican spokesman Dick Cheney neglects to mention one critical fact: torture is illegal, even if it More…
The investigation into disgraced financier Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme is taking a new turn, as the Securities and Exchange Commission begins investigating whether some of Madoff’s biggest “victims” actually were in on the scam, The Wall Street Journal reports.
Some of the victims apparently were able to state the More…
While much of the mainstream media — Charlie Savage at The New York Times and John MacKinnon at The Wall Street Journal, among others — were reporting yesterday on how it would be virtually impossible to prove that the Bush administration’s lawyers’ approval of torture amounted to a More…
You know something’s fundamentally changed when The Wall Street Journal’s William McGurn — a former Bush speechwriter, now chief editorial writer for the paper — is calling the Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan where the United States is holding some 600 prisoners indefinitely without charge “Obama’s Gitmo.”
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Has it really come to this? The Wall Street Journal reports that professional white collar workers in small towns are turning to running hot dog stands in their spare time to make ends meet. Hot dog carts sales are on the rise in recent months, according to The Journal. More…
In his speech on the auto industry yesterday, President Obama promoted the idea of a so-called “cash-for-clunkers” program that would offer financial incentives for people to trade in their old gas-guzzlers for more fuel-efficient vehicles. “Such fleet modernization programs, which provide a generous credit to consumers who turn in More…
From the treasure trove of conservative apocalyptic predictions that actually sound pretty good comes this piece today in the neocon magazine, Commentary. The article describes the ideologically driven conditions being placed on General Motors as a result of the government bailout, arguing that “GM will be used to More…
Reading The New York Times’ lead editorial today feels a bit like reading a summary of much of what I’ve been writing for the past two months: that President Obama, despite his impressive pronouncements on closing the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay and ending torture and unnecessary government More…
Thomas Frank has a terrific op-ed in the Wall Street Journal today, praising President Obama’s recent presidential memorandum declaring the end of an era of unrestrained government outsourcing.
The president “meant to put the kibosh on the GOP’s favorite method for spreading the wealth around,” Frank writes, noting the More…
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