andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com - 4/20/2009
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This is the deepest and darkest aspect of the impact of Bush-Cheney's torture program on the constitution and the future. Leave aside for a moment the policy debate over torture in the abstract. From the very beginning, that has been largely moot. Why? Because even if you believe that the ...
andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com - 4/17/2009
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andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com —
It will take some time to absorb the
full implications of the ICRC report and the OLC
memos. Right now, many are understandably focused on the legal details, the grotesque specifics of the techniques ("insects", "walling"?), ...
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The Bigger Picture
online.wsj.com - 4/24/2009
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online.wsj.com —
What makes it hard at the moment to
write sympathetically of Barack Obama is the loud chorus
of approbation arising from his supporters in journalism as they mark the hundred days. Drudge calls it the "Best President Ever" campaign. It is marked by an ...
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Noonan: Past, President and Future
yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 4/26/2009
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yglesias.thinkprogress.org —
Under the administration of George W. Bush, the
United States of America suffered by far the worst
terrorist attack in its history. Bush responded to this with policies that led to the deaths of substantially more innocent Americans than died on ...
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Still True Today: If You Don’t Count the Failures, ...
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Scritti Politti: April 20, 2009
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... And yet a "net quarterly loss of 18 cents a share" and gross earnings wiped out by paying out all its profits "and then some" is reported as a profit, that surprised financial analysts!
Maybe the story is that financial analysts aren't very smart!
Spitz Polish: Portfolio's Jeff Bercovici connects the dots on the Washington Post's cross-platform efforts to launder the karma of their recent hire, Eliot Spitzer.
A Metastasizing Sin: Andrew Sullivan warns:
And so Obama's refusal to investigate war crimes is ...
Obama Is Wrong, Andrew Sullivan Is Right
Open Left - Front Page —
... last law was down, and the Devil turned 'round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man's laws, not God's! And if you cut them down, and you're just the man to do it, do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake!
Embedding a clip of the scene that interchange comes from, Sullivan writes ("Obama, Bush And The Rule Of Law"):
This is the deepest ...
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