Meet the Guy Who Picks Up 15 Tons of Trash Mitt Is Trying to Shortchange
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AFSCME has launched a fascinating campaign, introducing people to the current sanitation worker, a former one, and the firetruck maintenance guy who service Mitt's La Jolla home.
It's a great campaign for…
We Still Don't Entitle Presidents
Steven Pearlstein collects a slew of things the plutocrats believe they're entitled to. The whole list is worth reading.
But I'm interested in the way he invokes Mitt Romney with them. (These are taken from the second half of Pearlstein's…
The Joy of Real Referees For the NFL Trash Talk
The real refs are back, and the scabs are gone. This is a very good thing for the integrity of the sport; the cockup that cost the Packers the game in Seattle was just too much. After that, how in the world could the NFL send a team of scabs…
I Don't Think Luddite Means What CNN Thinks It Means
CNN's Security Clearance blog thinks it has exposed Janet Napolitano as a Luddite.
Napolitano said she does not use email "at all."
"For a whole host of reasons. So, I don't have any of my own accounts and that, you know, I'm very secure,"…
Behind the Humble Blue Pickup Scott Brown Has Been Working for Banks with Ties to Home-Stealing Forgers
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Remember when Scott Brown used his old GMC pickup to promise he'd change business as usual in Washington?
In a bid to force Elizabeth Warren to reveal her clients going back decades, Brown made this admission.
“I…
Rebecca Solnit's Mirror
I've been laughing my ass off at the number of lefties who have linked to--or republished--this Rebecca Solnit piece scolding her "dismal allies" for being such grumps.
It's not so much I mind someone trying to persuade progressives of the…
Panetta, DoD Use Semantic Games to Claim Joint Operations Nearly Normal Again in Afghanistan
Late Thursday, Leon Panetta contributed even further to his diminishing credibility by trying to claim that joint missions between US and Afghan troops are returning nearly to normal levels. From the Washington Post:
Most U.S. and NATO…
Steven Bradbury's Revenge
Since I noted in August 2011 that Mitt had named two torture architects to his legal advisory committee (Tim Flanigan and Steve Bradbury), I have had zero doubt that Mitt would embrace torture if he were President. So Charlie Savage's story--reporting…
Maybe Congress Doesn't Want Constituents to Know Surveillance Has Spiked Under Obama?
The ACLU sued the government to get it to release the reports on how much DOJ has used Pen Registers and Trap and Trace devices to get criminal suspects' phone and email call records.
The records show a sharp increase in the use of PR/TT…
No Easy Day, WikiLeaks, and Mitt's 47%: Three Different Approaches to Illicitly-Released Information
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Last week, DOD issued a guidance memo instructing DOD personnel what they are--and are not--permitted to do with the Matt Bissonnettte book, No Easy Day, that they claim has sensitive and maybe even classified…
How Many Ways Out of Afghanistan?
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Ain't but one way out baby, Lord I just can't go out that door.
The long-stated "mission" for NATO forces in Afghanistan has been to train Afghan security forces so that they…
The Mushroom Cloud Thinking Fostered By Our War on Terror
Foreign Policy has a must read article describing how much more support for torture there is now than there was when it was the affirmative policy of our country.
Respondents in 2012 are more pro-waterboarding, pro-threatening prisoners with…
Jay Bybee Wrote Memo Permitting Broad Sharing of Intelligence-Related Grand Jury Information
In March 2011, I noted a previously unreleased OLC memo mentioned in Jack Goldsmith's May 6, 2004 illegal wiretapping memo seemingly giving the President broad authority to learn about grand jury investigations.
For example, this Office has…
The Lesson of Ohio: Industrial Strategy
The election is not over yet, but today there's an even worse poll out of Ohio for Mitt than the 8 point Obama lead that WaPo had yesterday: a NYT/CBS/Q poll showing Obama leading by 10, 53-43.
And so beltway pundits are trying to figure…
Information Flow is Key in Iran War Posturing
As Marcy points out this morning, Iran is now emphasizing the many ways that the US is waging war on Iran. What I find interesting in both the physical attacks, whether they hit equipment or people, and the propaganda attacks waged in the media…
We Have Always Been at War in Iran
The NYT has a weird story on new allegations made by Iran, listing a bunch of ways the west has sabotaged it.
Iran said Tuesday that it had amassed new evidence of attempts by saboteurs to attack Iranian nuclear, defense, industrial and telecommunications…
Congressman Tim Ryan's 4 Reasons Obama Is Winning Ohio
The Alliance for American Manufacturing just had a press conference with Congressman Tim Ryan, who represents Youngstown and part of Akron, Ohio, to talk about the role that China is playing in this year's President election.
Earlier in the…
Drones: Nation-Unbuilding in Pakistan and the US
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Stanford's International Human Rights and Conflict Resolution Clinic and NYU's Global Justice Clinic have joined the debate on drones with a long report presenting what it argues are the counter-productive…
The Scab Grab Teaches Scott Walker the Value of Unions
I confess, I went to sleep last night when Seattle QB Russell Wilson threw a pick with about 3 minutes left in the game [Update: actually, in retrospect it was a missed 4th down throw]. With the Squawks down 5, I figured there was no way they…
How Mitt Manufactured a Charitable View of His Taxes
This worthwhile piece on the charities Mitt Romney gives millions to (largely, the Mormon Church and the Mormon Church) got me thinking about the chronology of Mitt's 9 month slow reveal (sic) on taxes. The headline takeaway from Mitt's tax…
