I like ceremony as much as the next guy, but I think the media has gone a little overboard. I’ve concluded that the only way to get images and remembrances of President Reagan off our news programs is with something like this: Copy boy (bursting onto studio set): Stop! We have Breaking News! Anchorman: But …
Administration lawyers say President can ignore torture laws and treaties. After defining torture and other prohibited acts, the memo presents “legal doctrines … that could render specific conduct, otherwise criminal, not unlawful.” Foremost, the lawyers rely on the “commander-in-chief authority,” concluding that “without a clear statement otherwise, criminal statutes are not read as infringing on …
I stumbled out to the mailbox this morning, and what to my wondering eyes did appear but (no, not reindeer, wrong poem) but a completely-changed newspaper! The paper’s whiter (and, the publisher claims, cleaner…I’ll believe that when it doesn’t come off on my hands), the typefaces are different, and the colors are brighter. This was …