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That's the Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor played on the best-sounding organ I've ever heard, the Tobias Trost Organ in Waltershausen .
So that's what's old. What's new?
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Senator Schumer (D-NY) on trying detainees in civilian courts:
those who commit acts of war against the United States, particularly those who have no color of citizenship, don’t deserve the same panoply of due process rights that American citizens receive. Should Osama bin Laden be captured ...
World
"...that his Justice Department ostensibly wants to help the terrorists."
Reasonable people can differ on whether the acts of Sept 11, 2001, were crimes to be handled in court or acts of war to be tried by military tribunals. Experts will never agree on whether criminal trials make us safer ...
Law
Eric Holder
9/11
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, ... I hereby order ... [that t]he detention facilities at Guantánamo for individuals covered by this order shall be closed as soon as practicable, and no later than 1 year from the date ...
White House
United States
Barack Obama
Ditto what she said .
Added: the Hillary Clinton fans HillBuzz say :
[The media is] going to do everything they can think of for the next three years to tell you “Palin is too polarizing”, “Palin’s looks are an issue”, “Palin is crazy”, “Palin is unqualified”, etc.
You realize the ...
White House
Sarah Palin
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Barack Obama
but they can mislead. This poll looks pretty dismal for Sarah Palin's viability as a 2012 contender: 53% "definitely would not vote for her." Yet the poll's methodology is precisely how a President is not elected: a "random national sample." Even if we assume that the number is reflective of ...
White House
Sarah Palin
Republican National Committee
"We face a threat from the perversion of one faith in particular."
Obama is right to continue emphasizing the all-important distinction between religious views compatible with democratic pluralism and those that aren't. As he deals with the fallout of the attack, he must continue to separate ...
White House
Barack Obama
General David Petraeus
CBS News writes , about Sarah Palin's forthcoming book:
She alleges that Couric and CBS left out her more "substantive" remarks and settled for "gotcha" moments. She writes that Couric had a "partisan agenda" and a condescending manner. Couric was "badgering," biased and far easier on ...
White House
CBS
Sarah Palin
Joe Biden
Writing in the New York Times , Kate Michelman and Frances Kissling (the former presidents of, respectively, the National Abortion Rights Action League and Heretics for Choice ) fault House Democrats for failing to prevent the Stupak Amendment ( amendment text (PDF) | vote tally ). The House, ...
Other
I am skeptical, frankly, that the 64 Democrats who supported the Stupak amendment will be willing to buck the leadership and vote down Obamacare when the bill comes back from conference without the Stupak language. If they do, however, and if the 41 who signed this letter stick to their guns, ...
Congress
Bart Stupak
Foreign Policy
That's from Sen. Joe Lieberman , on the hard questions that need to asked about Nidal Hasan.
I still think it highly irresponsible to suggest that this evidence of some sort of infilitration of the military by Islamists, or that we ought to traet Muslims with suspicion, but I think it's clear ...
Congress
Joe Lieberman
U.S. Army
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Via Megan McArdle, who reports on an eyewitness account of the slaughter:
There is absolutely no political lesson to be learned from this. Gun control would not have stopped a commissioned officer from obtaining guns. Barack Obama had no power to stop this. Infectious PTSD is a lousy theory. ...
World
Foreign Policy
Barack Obama
U.S. Army
Afghanistan
Dr. Seuss no doubt intended for young people of my generation to side with the Lorax , who speaks for the trees. But clearly the Once-ler was not without his fans, including the young lad who grew up to invent this machine:
This post will serve as the late-Thursday and all day Friday open ...
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Bill McConkey's challenge to Wisconsin's same sex marriage amendment reaches that state's Supreme Court . I discussed the case here and analyzed the relevant law here . The bottom line is that Milwaukee Alliance v. Elections Bd. of Wisconsin , 317 N.W.2d 420 (Wis. 1982), seems to decide the ...
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Valerie Jarrett says that the ouster of Scozzafaza
shows that the Republican Party leadership is “becoming more and more extreme, and more and more marginalized ... It’s rather telling when the Republican Party forces out a moderate Republican and it says, I think, a great deal about where ...
Congress
Republican National Committee
"...and watch Hannity’s jaw drop,” Beckel said. “And that is one of the great moments of my week."
White House
Sean Hannity
Barack Obama
Economic Meltdown
Although a less acute case of sic semper proditores than Arlen Specter , the same principle that applied to Specter —to wit, a candidate who rats should repay the money invested in them by the party and compensate those who volunteered time and effort to work for their election— applies to ...
Congress
Arlen Specter
Republican National Committee
Sarah Palin
This piece by Jon Meacham is a bit old, but I just saw this the other day, and I thought it was on-point:
The McChrystal incident raises an interesting question: if commanders cannot speak their minds in such a forum—and the general was the very model of reason and grace—then what are the ...
