Liveblogging the Prop 8 Trial: Day Five Friday PM(20)
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Liveblogging the Prop 8 Trial: Day Five Friday AM (19)
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Liveblogging the Prop 8 Trial: Day Five Friday AM (18)
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New ACLU Torture FOIA Docs Working Thread
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bmazNew docs to comb through on the torture tape destruction!
Liveblogging Prop 8 Trial: Day Four, Thursday PM One (Sixteen)
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Liveblogging Prop 8 Trial: Day Four, Thursday AM Two (Fifteen)
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Liveblogging Prop 8 Trial: Day Four, Thursday AM One (Fourteen)
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China Google Attack and the Terrorist Surveillance Program
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bmazDoes the Chinese Google attack impinge on the top secret US Terrorist Surveillance Program? It might.
Liveblogging Prop 8 Trial: Day Three, Wednesday PM Two (Thirteen)
[This post is rescued liveblogging materials that the Toobz Godz would not let me include in the last post. It picks up midway through the Defendants' questioning of Letitiia Peplau, a Social Psychologist and an expert witness on the benefits…
Supreme Court Blocks Video Coverage Of Prop 8 Trial
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bmazThe Supreme Court has issued its decision denying video coverage of the Prop 8 trial.
Liveblogging Prop 8 Trial: Day 3, Wednesday PM One (Twelve)
I'm about to pick up the liveblogging of the Prop 8 trial from Teddy, who has earned a big break (and who is off to the court room for a spell). We're in the middle of expert testimony--I believe that's what we've got coming up after this lunch…
New Pecora: Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission Discussion Thread
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bmazAlright, this is a hot button issue and folks seem to want a place to chat on the proceedings in the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission with the Masters Of The Universe.
It is live on CSPAN and here is a web link to streaming CSPAN coverage.
Discuss…
Marcy Wheeler TeeVee - Jonathan Gruber and the Cadillac Plan
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bmazThere has been a fair amount of misinformation and disinformation about what has been said by Marcy Wheeler on this blog about Jonathan Gruber, including by Paul Krugman; there was also no foundation for it.
A Rather Sad Ending For Dan
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bmazDan Rather has lost what appears to be his last attempt to keep his civil suit against CBS and Viacom alive.
Congress Reviews the Taxpayers' Investment
One of the biggest stories at the North American International Auto Show yesterday was not the cars, but the congressional delegation -- led by Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer -- that came to the show. In addition to…
A Conversation with GM North America President, Mark Reuss
At the auto show yesterday, I had the opportunity to participate in a round table discussion with GM's recently appointed President of North America, Mark Reuss. Reuss was a pretty down to earth guy who had worked his way through the engineering…
SCOTUS Scuttles Prop 8 Video Coverage; The History Behind The Denial
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bmazAs you may have heard (See here and here), the Supreme Court has entered a last minute stay to put a hold on the video feed of the seminal Prop 8 trial in the Norther District of California (NDCA) to select other Federal courthouses in the country as well as the delayed release of video clips of the proceedings via YouTube. It is a disappointing decision for many reasons.
Ford Wins NA Car and Truck of the Year
Greetings from the North American International Auto Show.
As I explained last week, I'm going to have a number of discussions about your taxpayer owned car company--GM--today.
But the big news of the morning is that Ford won both the…
Krugman on the Cadillac-as-Chevy
A number of people have pointed to this Krugman post, in which he seemingly agrees with the excise tax apologists.
I think that states his position too strongly. What Krugman does is argue is that it makes sense to limit the tax exclusion…
Gruber Caveats the "Excise Tax Raise" Claim
Earlier today, DDay pointed out that the NYT, after issuing a fairly pointed correction revealing Jonathan Gruber's ties with the Administration, then used a quote from Gruber without disclosing his role in the Administration. DDay was focusing…