andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com - 3/4/2009
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Greenwald reads through the newly released OLC memos: It's somewhat surreal to witness -- now that George Bush is out of office -- the avalanche of establishment media reports suddenly acknowledging today, rather explicitly, how radical and lawless his presidency was, as though we only learned ...
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Andrew Sullivan has no intellectual right to write these words about how the Beltway Establishment cowered before the Bush Administration: ...
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andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com 2/4/2009 — A reader writes:
I had the same reaction . I happened to walk into the room and hear the words, "...and I've got to own up to my mistake..." and I immediately thought: Grownups in the White House. Hallelujah.
Furthermore I just so ...
No Exit, Ctd
andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com 3/13/2009 — Megan throws some more cold water on health care wonks: If we get national healthcare, we will not get anything like the neat little systems proposed by academics who can assume away many of the political problems. I am aware that proponents ...
Obama The Thug, Ctd.
andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com 2/13/2009 — Megan defends Kling . His shift on Keynesian economics seems to me a fair point but in full context, the racism innuendo is unfair. Poor wording and a little excitable, at the most. But not in any way racist.
"Victory" In Afghanistan, Ctd.
andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com 2/11/2009 — Christian Brose, former chief speechwriter and policy advisor to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, joins other voices on the neoconservative right : What I heard again and again is that we may have to settle for a
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Justice for War Criminals?
yglesias.thinkprogress.org 1/12/2009 — Satyam Khanna rounds up the somewhat contradictory statements from Barack Obama and his appointees as to whether or not there should be any kind of prosecutions or investigations for the serious crimes committed during the Bush years. Obama leaves ...
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weeklystandard.com 5/6/2009 — A majority of Americans approve of waterboarding and oppose investigations into the Bush administration's use of such techniques according to a new poll from CNN. The report :
A new national poll indicates that most Americans don't want to see an ...
The Odd Lies Of Sarah Palin, Ctd
andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com 2/6/2009 — I've given up counting, but I should note that none of her defenders on the right have really dealt with the documented fact of her repeated self-refutations and delusional assertions of facts that are not in dispute. Her unstable grip on reality, ...
The Cannabis Closet, Ctd.
andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com 4/3/2009 —
A reader writes:
Count me as an in-the-closet user as well . Late-30s father of three bright, active kids. I have an MBA and work as an energy trader for an international company in Manhattan. Last Democrat I voted for was Clinton, in 1992. ...
The Cannabis Closet, Ctd.
andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com 4/3/2009 —
A reader writes:
These reader emails really hit a chord with me. I too am a member of the closet. My husband and I often muse, while smoking pot, that the only thing we are doing wrong is breaking the law. If that is the only wrong you are ...
British PM calls for 'New Deal,' elevates Obama —
First Read 3/4/2009
From NBC’s Domenico Montanaro British Prime Minister Gordon Brown called on the United States today to join the U.K. and other countries around the world to “seize the moment” and launch a “Global New Deal.” “[W]e should seize the ...