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The pen scares the shit out of the swordsmen at DoD. Fuck them.
Unqualified Offerings — By Thoreau From hilzoy , I learn that the Pentagon is circulating claims that people released from a prison in a Communist country are using their freedom to take up arms against the US.  We’ve heard these claims before, and my response is that even if (for the sake of argument) these guys are engaging in terrorism, it’s just one more piece of evidence that unsupervised officials make bad decisions:  If every case had to be examined in an open and adversarial forum where only reliable evidence is admissible, maybe we’d see better determinations being made.  I’ve always ...

All Of Bush’s Mistakes Are Obama’s Fault
Balloon Juice — ... Every time I see these stories, it makes my blood boil. This nonsense started last week with the Pentagon’s “timely” release of a report about 61 detainees, and continues on today on all your favorite ...

Pen-Elayne on the Web — ... abuse of power thing too hard because they're (duh) complicit, and about how the dittoheads are fighting so hard against Obama's plans not because they're afraid he'll fail but because they suspect he'll succeed, and about how Nixon and Reagan and Bush (both 41 and 43) were the current party's standard bearers rather than radical exceptions. Also, What Hilzoy Said, about how Reagan and Thatcher presided over higher taxes than Obama's proposing, and about the "returning to the fight" nonsense. • Belated congrats all around! To Andante for ...