Them’s my sentiments precisely
Thank you, Ben Sargent!
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King advocates Totalitarianism
That would be Steve King, R-IA,, who has never seen a brown person he liked. Now he wants the FBI to infiltrate and spy on American mosques to see which ones support ISIS recruitment. Do I have to explain to anyone how wrong, illegal and unconstitutional this is? I thought not.
Where indeed?
Charlie Pierce recounts the news of the Las Vegas cop-killing and then asks where are the cops? Why are there not a million police officers on the National Mall right now, today, demanding that the Congress and the rest of the political elite take even the most gingerly steps toward disenthralling the country from its …
Prisoner exchange
It is completely predictable that many Republicans are screeching about the Administration’s swap of five former Taliban guys from the prison at Guantanamo for the release of Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl after five years of captivity in Afghanistan or Pakistan. I would merely remind those Republicans that Israel, the nation they reflexively support no matter what …
What the ever-loving hell?
Sometimes I am so shocked and dismayed about a US Government policy that I feel I should write long essays chastising the President, Congress, the courts, or whoever formulated the policy. What usually happens is that I’m first made aware of the malfeasance at a blog like Charlie Pierce’s or maybe Digby’s. I then realize …
I have nothing to add
Just go read Charlie Pierce. I’m a big boy. I am not made of spun sugar. I know my country — and therefore, since we are in an era in which the distinction between civilian and military casualties is as ephemeral as it was in Atlanta, or Dresden, or My Lai, me — has enemies. …
Oh really?
Some guy named Edward Snowden claims he’s the one who leaked the news of NSA’s surveillance operations to The Guardian. Well, maybe. Were I he I’d have gone somewhere without an extradition treaty with the United States, not Hong Kong, which has one. There are questions about whether he had the opportunity to do it, …
You were expecting something different?
The big news of the day is that the NSA is and has been collecting metadata from Verizon about its customers’ phone calls and the news that both the NSA and the FBI are and have been collecting data from most of the big Internet Service Providers. Color me unsurprised. Congress has willingly authorized this …
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Info-gathering or point-scoring? You make the call
It seems to me the Senate Armed Services Committee confirmation hearing for Chuck Hagel yesterday was looked upon as a credentials-burnishing and grandstanding opportunity, at least by the Republican Senators, rather than a serious attempt to determine whether he is qualified to run the Department of Defense. Why do I say that? Take heed of …
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ONE jackass tries to light his shoe & every American has to take their shoes off at airports. Mass gun violence & there’s nothing we can do — Yousef Munayyer (@YousefMunayyer) December 14, 2012 Ain’t that the truth.