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John Yoo and John Bolton, Together Again
Some things defy all attempts at satire. It is not that it is difficult to satirize them, but that they are immune. Like black holes, they pull all humor near them to a certain event horizon and then beyond, where it is torn to shreds, never to be seen again. Such an event might be, oh, let's ...
Shadow Government | A FOREIGN POLICY blog
shadow.foreignpolicy.com — The Bolton/Yoo essay that Dan Drezner mentions here argues that the 2/3 requirement is a good thing, because it advances their preferred policy agenda by: (a) restraining those wet "global governance" types from entangling commitments; and (b) in ... (more) Shadow Government | A FOREIGN POLICY blog
John R. Bolton - The Three-State Option
washingtonpost.com — Comments that include profanity or personal attacks or other inappropriate comments or material will be removed from the site. Additionally, entries that are unsigned or contain "signatures" by someone other than the actual author will be removed. ... (more) John R. Bolton - The Three-State Option
BIG BRASS BALLS
balloon-juice.com — No one could have predicted this would happen. John Yoo and John Bolton, in the NY Times, discuss the need to limit executive authority . Up next, David Addington and Dick Cheney write in the Washington Post on the need to reject Unitary ... (more) BIG BRASS BALLS
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Block That Metaphor
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — ... to program their VCR: funnier. Now suppose a dozen clowns beat each other to death with whole, unfrozen bluefin tuna: goddamn hilarious. (Let it be said, for the record, that I am indifferent to clowns, except that I have it on good authority that circus clowns have no souls.) Watching the legal wranglers of torture, "preemptive" military action and Unitary Executive-ism pen an ode to the proper encumbrance of executive power? It is at least clown-and-tuna funny," - Hunter at Daily Kos. ...

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