Donald Trump: The Jamaica Jerkoff
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Seriously, this asshole with a dead ferret on his head thinks he is going to run for President? Of the United States? Um, no. And why supposedly credible news organizations are giving this crapola one fleeting second of credibility…
University of Wisconsin's Response to FOIA Request Emphasizes Importance of Academic Freedom
The University of Wisconsin issued two documents in response to the request for Professor Bill Cronon's emails: a message from the Chancellor, and a letter from the General Counsel to WI's GOP. As the GC letter describes, UW has withheld the…
Darrell Issa Complains that Janet Napolitano Took a Whole Year to Change Michael Chertoff's Inefficient FOIA Process
Darrell Issa has no credibility when it comes to matters of transparency. We've seen Issa's rank hypocrisy in the past. He dismissed concerns about Karl Rove doing business on RNC emails as a political stunt. And he suggested that apparently…
Wingnut Pastor's Koran-Burning Gets UN Staffers Killed
This is horrible.
Protesters angered by the burning of a Koran by a fringe American pastor in Florida mobbed offices of the United Nations in northern Afghanistan on Friday, killing ten foreign staff members and beheading two of the victims,…
US Intelligence Operatives in Libya, Before a Finding, Sounds Like JSOC
Mark Hosenball, who yesterday broke the news that Obama had issued a Finding authorizing the CIA to operate covertly in Libya in the last 2-3 weeks, today says "intelligence operatives" were on the ground before Obama signed that Finding.
U.S.…
Out of the Mouths of Babes Real People: Just Keep Jobs Here
The powers that be--those that give a damn about creating jobs at all (Obama's campaign manager doesn't)--have a bunch of tired plans for creating jobs in America: get rid of labor unions, repeal healthcare reform, cut the safety net, create…
"Pro Life" Republicans Trying to Kill 70,000 Children
At the same time as Republicans are trying to force the IRS to audit abortions (even while forbidding use of the word "uterus"), they are trying to cut Obama's request for international aid by 16%. Doing so, USAID Rajiv Shah testified yesterday,…
Goldman's Lies and Jamie Dimon's Piggy Bank
After a drawn out battle to liberate the records of the Fed's discount window lending, they've finally been released. Bloomberg (who led the legal fight to liberate them) has made the records available here.
While it's going to take a while…
Uterus: (Yew-Tur-Us), N, A curse word meaning "not a corporation."
Apparently, the children in the GOP party in Florida are offended that a Democratic state Representative uttered the word "uterus" on the House floor:
During last week's discussion about a bill that would prohibit governments from deducting…
How the "Most Transparent Administration Ever" Worsens Transparency with Transparency Effort
The Director of National Intelligence has floated a "shockingly bad" proposal on how much review GAO will be permitted within the intelligence community. According to Steven Aftergood, because the proposal defines the intelligence community…
Where Will Obama Try Himself for Material Support for Terrorism?
I consider this a wicked brain teaser:
The Obama administration is engaged in a fierce debate over whether to supply weapons to the rebels in Libya, senior officials said on Tuesday, with some fearful that providing arms would deepen American…
Scott Bloch Headed To Prison
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bmazFormer Bush Special Counsel Scott Bloch's attempt to get out of his guilty plea has been denied and he will be sentenced to prison today.
The Mackinac Center's Assault on Academic Freedom Is a Stunt
As TPM first reported, MI's institution of wingnut stupid, the Mackinac* Center, has FOIAed the labor studies departments of three universities.
A free enterprise think tank in Michigan -- backed by some of the biggest names in national conservative…
Mark Bittman: "I stopped eating on Monday"
NYT's food columnist Mark Bittman has given up food:
I stopped eating on Monday and joined around 4,000 other people in a fast to call attention to Congressional budget proposals that would make huge cuts in programs for the poor and hungry.
By…
PJ Crowley Explains Why Manning's Treatment Is Ridiculous, Counterproductive, and Stupid
PJ Crowley has a very important Guardian piece on why he said the treatment of Bradley Manning was ridiculous, counterproductive, and stupid. After explaining that Manning, if convicted, "should spend a long, long time in prison," and then claiming…
Frontline Ignores Most Embarrassing "Cause" of WikiLeaks Leak
Greg Mitchell has a preview of the Frontline piece on Bradley Manning today. He points out that the big "scoop" of the story--that Manning's stepmother called the cops in 2006 after Bradley pulled out a knife during a family fight (but then…
The Colonized Advises the Colonizer on What to Do When You Go Broke
I'm catching up today, so no substantive post yet.
But in the meantime, I wanted to point to this AP piece, describing former Brazilian President Lula warning Portugal not to take the IMF bailout it's about to be offered.
"The IMF won't…
In Re Sealed Case and the Goldsmith Memo
In addition to what I laid out here, comparing the 2006 White Paper with the May 6, 2004 Goldsmith memo on the warrantless wiretap program made me realize that the White Paper relies more frequently on In re: Sealed Case than Goldsmith does,…
Finally! Our Declining Manufacturing Base Becomes a National Security Issue
I have long argued that the way to address the big problems our government is currently all-but-ignoring, not least jobs and climate change, is to talk about how our current policies put us at significant national security risk. If nothing else,…
Are 95% of People Investigated Under New FBI Guidelines Innocent, but Entered into Database?
The NYT liberated the specific answer to a question that Russ Feingold asked in March 2009, but which DOJ didn't respond to until November 2010, when Feingold was a lame duck Senator. At issue were new investigative guidelines Attorney General…
