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Patrick Fitzgerald now a hero of the Right

Tuesday, December 09, 2008 9:35 PM
In chapter 3,784 of Topsy-Turvy Wingnut Logic For Dummies, Patrick Fitzgerald has suddenly become a hero of the Right , transformed in an instant from his supporting role as Left Wing Lackey #3: News this morning that U.S. attorney Patrick Fitzgerald
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The situational ethics of Sen. Jon Kyl

Saturday, November 08, 2008 7:41 PM
Think back to the spring of 2005, just three and a half years ago, before this presidential campaign started. The Republicans controlled both houses of Congress and the White House. The Democrats in the Senate were more or less powerless to stop the GOP
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Court smacks down EPA-sanctioned pollution

Tuesday, August 19, 2008 10:43 PM
In 1990, Congress passed an amendment to the Clean Air Act which ordered a state to set more stringent limits on air pollution if that state determined that the Clean Air Act was insufficient inside its borders. The monitoring requirements and sufficiency
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Justice denied

Wednesday, August 06, 2008 10:12 PM
Salim Hamdan was convicted today of providing material support to terrorists in a sham kangaroo court convened at Guantanamo. His "trial" included the admission of inflammatory, irrelevant evidence such as the 1998 African embassy bombings and the 9/11
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David Neiwert on the TVUUC shooting

Tuesday, July 29, 2008 9:50 PM
David Neiwert, who has written extensively about eliminationist rhetoric from the right wing against liberals, had this to say about Sunday's tragedy in Knoxville: In reality, of course, rhetoric like this has historically played a critical role in some
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The day after

Monday, July 28, 2008 8:50 PM
Yesterday, a senseless act of non-random violence struck this city. A man, mad at the world and blaming liberals for his personal ills, targeted the innocent congregants of a progressive church in Knoxville, killing two and wounding seven. Like everyone
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Richard Holbrooke on Radovan Karadzic

Thursday, July 24, 2008 10:14 PM
Foreign Policy has a short but fascinating interview with former Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, who was the chief architect of the 1995 Dayton Agreement , which ended the war in Bosnia. He discusses the recent arrest of the fugitive Serbian war criminal
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Chalk one up for the Constitution

Thursday, June 12, 2008 1:10 PM
This morning, the US Supreme Court handed down its decision in Boumediene v. Bush , holding that Guantanamo detainees have the right to challenge their detention in US civilian courts. As SCOTUSblog said: The Court, dividing 5-4, ruled that Congress had
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Two howlers on domestic surveillance

Wednesday, April 02, 2008 9:34 PM
Two stories came out today on the deepening problem of unwarranted and unconstrained domestic surveillance in the ongoing War On Your Liberty; each of the two stories contains assurances by government officials that don't even pass the snicker test. The
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Knox County Commission admits to breaking the Sunshine Law

Monday, March 24, 2008 11:40 PM
As a consequence of this debacle in our local government, Knox County Commissioners are under a court order not to violate the Sunshine Law again, under penalty of fines and possibly even jail time. Given the events of the last year and a half in this
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