All Stories for: Diaries

• November 03, 2009 - Grassley seeks to censor Webb Bill Crime Commission
• October 29, 2009 - Evil, and the Liberal Vocabulary
• October 26, 2009 - It's about time for a resounding "Shut Up!"
• October 12, 2009 - Afghanistan is the Taliban is Afghanistan is the Taliban
• September 30, 2009 - A Victim of "Bipartisanship"
• September 23, 2009 - Did Zazi's Lawyer Sell Him Out to the FBI?
• September 21, 2009 - Minsky Minimum Wages, After the "Minsky Moment"
• September 06, 2009 - Obama's Healthcare Tuesday Speech - the contents
• August 28, 2009 - Waterproof Socks as a Weapon of Mass Destruction
• August 12, 2009 - Two Coups, and a Cuckoo Condemnation of Obama
• August 02, 2009 - The New American Reality of Long-Term Unemployment and Destitution
• July 27, 2009 - Poll: Disorderly Conduct and Disturbing the Peace
• July 25, 2009 - Obama/Gates/Crowley: Relevant Statutes, Case Law, and Model Code
• July 23, 2009 - Socialized Medicine Sucks
• July 22, 2009 - Back-story of the iPhone "Suicide" in China
• July 21, 2009 - Global Exposure in Financial Derivatives Surpasses One Quadrillion Dollars
• July 13, 2009 - The Invisible Iranian Embassy in Nicaragua
• June 18, 2009 - 31% of South African Men Are Rapists
• June 15, 2009 - Obama Gets It Right, Where Condi Got It Wrong With Iran
• June 14, 2009 - Giving Up
• June 13, 2009 - Obama, John Rawls, and a Defense of the Unreasonable
• June 10, 2009 - Two Hundred Million Missing Women
• June 07, 2009 - You'll Never Get Ahead ...With Torture on the Resume
• June 06, 2009 - Individualism and Responsibility
• June 06, 2009 - "We could not understand what he was saying."
• June 02, 2009 - June 14, 1978: FBI and anti-abortion terrorism
• May 31, 2009 - Ricci, Raniola, and Dabit
• May 30, 2009 - Why Obama Can Empathize with Everybody and Sympathize with Nobody
• May 26, 2009 - The Constitution Supersedes Treaties
• May 23, 2009 - Building a better kangaroo at Guantanamo Bay
• May 21, 2009 - Climate Change Effects Hugely Unequal Globally
• May 20, 2009 - Oblivion Nation (Gossip, Gas, and Afghanistan)
• May 19, 2009 - What the CIA Wants
• May 12, 2009 - Torture and Cover-ups: Obama's New Man in Afghanistan
• May 10, 2009 - Obama Is Giving the Banks More Than $1 Billion Per Hour
• May 06, 2009 - Mignon Clyburn Will Kill Net Neutrality
• May 04, 2009 - Obama Gets an "F" from Black Agenda Report
• May 01, 2009 - Souter retirement: old news, no change.
• April 30, 2009 - The New York Times "Overlooks" a Massacre in Afghanistan
• April 24, 2009 - How Cheney and the Times Framed Obama
• April 22, 2009 - One Week Left to Help Jobless Ohioans!
• April 21, 2009 - Did Bush keep us safe after 9/11?
• April 17, 2009 - Medical Activist issued Subpoena by Obama DOJ
• April 16, 2009 - Perpetual House-Arrest for Women in Afghanistan
• April 15, 2009 - Tired of Tea Parties? Help Jobless Ohioans Without Leaving Your Computer!
• April 12, 2009 - King Canute in Afghanistan
• April 08, 2009 - Our Consumer Plutocracy
• April 04, 2009 - Inching Toward Columbine
• April 02, 2009 - Systemic Corruption in the Courts and Congress
• April 01, 2009 - Financial Services Bailout Now Totals $11.8 Trillion
• March 30, 2009 - Redemption: Susan Atkins and Retributive Justice 'Ideals'
• March 23, 2009 - The AIG Bonus Tax is a Bill of Attainder
• March 23, 2009 - 3,000 Documents, or 3 Torture Memos?
• March 22, 2009 - Obama: Corruption We Can Believe In
• March 05, 2009 - "Obama's Katrina?"
• February 26, 2009 - Guantanamo guards "get their kicks" before closing
• February 18, 2009 - Tell The Truth: The Obama DoJ
• February 14, 2009 - Obama Plays Dumb
• February 10, 2009 - The Best Idea Yet
• February 09, 2009 - Falling Short: Panetta Wavers on Torture
• February 07, 2009 - The Ivy-League Diet
• February 06, 2009 - We Should Celebrate Some Stimulus Cuts
• February 05, 2009 - Wittgenstein, Obama, and a Beetle in a Box
• February 03, 2009 - Trying to clear the thicket called rendition.
• February 02, 2009 - Nuts and Bolts of the So-Called "Meltdown"
• February 01, 2009 - How to end the foreclosure crisis now.
• February 01, 2009 - The Logical Apocalypse of Barack Obama
• January 27, 2009 - Even a Bush appointee can only take so much!
• January 26, 2009 - What "60 Minutes" Didn't Tell You About Wilmington, Ohio
• January 25, 2009 - The Floating World
• January 20, 2009 - The Obama Crash
• January 19, 2009 - Investigate Now
• January 13, 2009 - $700 Billion Could Pay Off EVERY Sub-Prime Mortgage
• January 10, 2009 - John Brennan's B.S.
• January 07, 2009 - Obama Can Redeem Panetta with Pat Lang as Deputy CIA Director
• January 06, 2009 - Guilty of Torture: Stephen Kappes
• January 05, 2009 - Does Franken Finally Win? A Legal Analysis
• January 04, 2009 - Utilitarianism and Rawlsian Liberalism in International Legal Theory
• December 30, 2008 - Connect the Dots: From McClurkin to Warren
• December 27, 2008 - The Power of One
• December 26, 2008 - Stephen Kappes & The Rendition of Abu Omar
• December 24, 2008 - Bush - The Un-pardoner.
• December 24, 2008 - Future of the Internet (According to Newsweek)
• December 24, 2008 - The Broader CIA Critique
• December 24, 2008 - A Date With Eric Holder And Barack Obama
• December 24, 2008 - Rod Blagojevich and Penny Pritzker
• December 21, 2008 - Joe Biden on Prosecuting Bush Officials
• December 21, 2008 - An Overview of Our Hilarious Bail-Out
• December 20, 2008 - Obama's Silence is a Smoking Gun
• December 19, 2008 - The (Questionable) Value of Experience
• December 17, 2008 - Envisioning Intelligence Post-Bush
• December 16, 2008 - Wiretaps on Two Democratic Governors: No Problem!
• December 16, 2008 - Net Neutrality vs. Torture Policy
• December 15, 2008 - CIA at the crossroads
• December 14, 2008 - Bad Choices for the CIA
• December 12, 2008 - Obama's Crooked Muse
• December 09, 2008 - Psst...Rand Beers for CIA.
• December 08, 2008 - Obama and FDR: The Politics of Low Expectations
• December 01, 2008 - What Were the Targets in Mumbai?
• November 30, 2008 - Explaining the Banks
• November 25, 2008 - Ideology, Pragmatism, and Ethics
• November 24, 2008 - On Brennan & Torture Commissions
• November 23, 2008 - The Company's Company Man: Notes on Brennan 3
• November 18, 2008 - CIA CYA: Notes on Brennan Part 2
• November 18, 2008 - The three word question
• November 14, 2008 - Why We Should Say No to Brennan
• October 12, 2008 - Welcome to Philadelphia.
• September 26, 2008 - Gary Peters for MI: Supporting Down Ticket Dems
• September 16, 2008 - Memo to Obama: Supporting Down Ticket Dems is Important
• September 05, 2008 - McCain/Palin Roulette
• September 03, 2008 - My RNC, so far
• August 21, 2008 - Denver: ATT thanks Blue Dogs Sun. Night
• August 20, 2008 - Why We Need Multiple Parties. Desperately.
• August 13, 2008 - Georgia on my mind.
• August 08, 2008 - St. Paul's yanked our Permit (RNC)
• August 05, 2008 - "By the Time You Read This...": Meanwhile DC Fiddles...
• July 16, 2008 - Enjoin the Hamdan commission trial, already!
• July 16, 2008 - Matt Yglesias: A Case for Liberal Internationalism
• July 05, 2008 - Barack Channels Scalia & Thomas on Abortion
• July 05, 2008 - CenterShot: The Myth Of The Middle
• June 26, 2008 - The Evolution of Hope
• June 25, 2008 - Sen. Obama: Yes, You Can Keep Your Word To Hold Bush Accountable - Stop The FISA Bush Immunity
• June 19, 2008 - Reevaluating Obama
• June 16, 2008 - "Kucinich's Articles of Impeachment: A Three-Part Guide"
• June 10, 2008 - Dr. Dean is IN! How about you?
• June 09, 2008 - Generational Warfare, Millennialists, "The New Politics", and The Youth Vote
• May 31, 2008 - A third view on FL and MI
• May 30, 2008 - The Will of the People
• May 29, 2008 - The Importance of the Latino Vote
• May 28, 2008 - Assassinating The Truth
• May 28, 2008 - Michigan/Florida Myths, Mistakes and Misinformation
• May 21, 2008 - Liberalism, the White Working Class, and Hillary Clinton
• May 18, 2008 - How Clinton Won West Virginia by Appealing to Edwards Voters
• May 18, 2008 - Operation: Be Nice
• May 15, 2008 - Your One-Stop Shop for Downticket Race Info! - Senate Edition
• May 14, 2008 - Sensible justice - why this election matters.
• May 12, 2008 - An Open Appeal to Obama and Clinton Supporters
• May 09, 2008 - Obama's OTHER Forgotten Demographic : Older Voters
• May 06, 2008 - Robo-Calls and reasonable basis' for voting decisions
• April 28, 2008 - Clinton Hangs On, Obama Drops in Polls, With Negative Media Attention
• April 27, 2008 - Do you know where your food has been?
• April 05, 2008 - Another stupid Taser death. What can we do? Obama or Clinton?
• April 04, 2008 - Bush's New "Defining Moment" In Iraq
• March 24, 2008 - Writing Challenges and Figuring Out the Scene Cards
• March 21, 2008 - 10-Year-Old dying of cancer; daughter's last wish is to see dad, in jail on meth charges
• March 02, 2008 - Obamamania = Joementum?
• March 01, 2008 - The Brattleboro, VT indictment resolution: Why is it legal nonsense?
• February 23, 2008 - Lose Moral Legitimacy, Lose The War
• February 19, 2008 - Grand Theft Auto Kids mow down Soccer Moms
• February 19, 2008 - Blackwater loses its gunmakers
• February 18, 2008 - Obama catches HRC in latest CNN Texas primary poll
• February 17, 2008 - Updated Wisconsin by Congressional District
• February 14, 2008 - "Where's Jacki's Medicine?" Picketing Bill
• February 10, 2008 - A Reading Test
• February 08, 2008 - David Obey, Christine Gregoire become Cultists
• January 30, 2008 - Don't say I didn't tell you so.
• January 30, 2008 - Popular Vote Totals So Far
• January 30, 2008 - Stakes High in Voter ID Case
• January 24, 2008 - Telecom Immunity Codifies Bush's Unitary Executive Theory?
• January 24, 2008 - Remembering Ricky Ray Rector
• January 15, 2008 - Nifong's stalling in bankruptcy.
• January 15, 2008 - Obama in 2008: More Like 1912 Than 1932
• January 07, 2008 - Are we watching Hillary's campaign burn out?
• December 18, 2007 - The Bush Administration and Its Strange Bedfellows
• December 11, 2007 - Executed This Day in 1962: The last men hanged in Canada
• December 03, 2007 - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Defund
• November 25, 2007 - More Horror From Para
• November 24, 2007 - Hidden Cost of the Iraq War for Vets
• November 19, 2007 - Labor Organizer Joe Hill: Executed This Day in 1915
• November 18, 2007 - Your <s>Liberal</s> Media - At It Again
• November 14, 2007 - 223 House Democrats Vote Against "Clean" Funding
• November 11, 2007 - Paul Krugman: David Brooks is a liar
• November 10, 2007 - Brazil Oil Discovery - And a Lesson in Bias
• November 07, 2007 - Enough Hypocrisy to Go Around
• November 06, 2007 - Pakistan: Close To The Edge
• November 05, 2007 - What Would The Child You Once Were Think Of The Adult You Have Become?
• October 26, 2007 - Genarlow Wilson Freed
• October 25, 2007 - It's the Messenger - and the Method
• October 22, 2007 - Introducing the SquareState Small Donor Committee
• October 21, 2007 - Omnipotence and the War In Iraq
• October 18, 2007 - Airport screeners miss most fake bombs
• October 18, 2007 - Still Another Stupid Idea
• October 18, 2007 - Another Stupid Idea
• October 18, 2007 - Dissent and Arrest
• October 14, 2007 - Reality on Film in Brazil
• October 14, 2007 - An Utter Failure of Imagination
• October 12, 2007 - How low law enforcement has fallen
• October 11, 2007 - Who is the real cop
• October 04, 2007 - A New Kind of Power
• October 04, 2007 - Barack Obama: paradigm shifter
• October 03, 2007 - Krugman, Economics and the Next Civil War
• October 03, 2007 - LIFE was his sentence, life is what he got back
• October 02, 2007 - Obama begins his offensive against Hillary.
• October 01, 2007 - Phoenix airport fatality
• October 01, 2007 - A couple seasonal notes
• September 29, 2007 - A Dominican Heroine
• September 29, 2007 - Crocodile Tears
• September 26, 2007 - Evo in New York -The Speech
• September 26, 2007 - Will LIFE imitate art or tell it like it is?
• September 25, 2007 - A Systems Approach to Iraq
• September 24, 2007 - How To Dig A Hole In Iraq
• September 23, 2007 - Profile of Lula
• September 22, 2007 - In Search Of A Reality
• September 22, 2007 - Weller Calls It Quits
• September 20, 2007 - The Vote That Counted
• September 20, 2007 - Are you shocked?
• September 17, 2007 - Mukasey must be blocked.
• September 17, 2007 - We have been betrayed; again
• September 16, 2007 - On The Deaths of Sgt Mora and Sgt Gray
• September 16, 2007 - Coming to America - Two Tales and Two Methods
• September 14, 2007 - The Bush Middle East Oil Gambit
• September 12, 2007 - The Merry-Go-Round of Iraqi Sectarian Violence
• September 12, 2007 - If I were President
• September 12, 2007 - In memoriam
• September 11, 2007 - `Bunker` mode for U.S. bases in Iraq
• September 11, 2007 - General Petreaus and Moveon.org Ad
• September 10, 2007 - Something I Had Been Meaning to Post About
• September 10, 2007 - Some thoughts on Senator Craig's motion to withdraw the guilty plea.
• September 10, 2007 - Obama to reboot his Iraq policy and rhetoric.
• September 09, 2007 - When Will They Learn Volume XX
• September 09, 2007 - How Bush Used Lt Cmdr Speicher
• September 06, 2007 - Take the damn ball, Senator Obama.
• September 04, 2007 - Gore Says Yes On Protests: Study Shows Effectiveness
• September 03, 2007 - Can The Iraq Occupation Be Ended Before The 2008 Elections?
• September 02, 2007 - "Odd Couple" or Ineffective Couple?
• August 31, 2007 - still blackmailing homos
• August 30, 2007 - The House, not the Senate, Will end the War
• August 30, 2007 - Matt Bai, Michiko Kakutani, and the Netroots
• August 21, 2007 - Deadeye's revelations
• August 17, 2007 - Mueller's un-barking dog.
• August 01, 2007 - The Failed History of Impeachment, Part III: How To Fix It
• July 31, 2007 - The Failed History of Impeachment, Part II: When Impeachment Doesn't Work
• July 30, 2007 - The Failed History of Impeachment, Part I: When Impeachment Works
• July 28, 2007 - George W. Obama? Or Hillary R. Bush?
• July 22, 2007 - The GOP Talking Dolls
• July 20, 2007 - The Presidential Accountability Act of 2007
• July 08, 2007 - Libby's B*tches
• July 05, 2007 - Fourth of July
• July 03, 2007 - Defunding Iraq: Misperceptions, Disinformation And Lies
• July 02, 2007 - "History will judge him harshly"
• June 29, 2007 - Slaughtering the Opposition
• June 26, 2007 - Bland v. Oklahoma - executing the terminally ill
• June 26, 2007 - Got a link for that fact?
• June 21, 2007 - Defunding a superpower
• June 18, 2007 - Getting Smaller.
• June 17, 2007 - Prosecutors' immunity from civil suits
• June 15, 2007 - Meet Wynona Spears
• June 08, 2007 - It's about separation of powers, and not
• June 05, 2007 - NY Times Extends Bad Reporting to Judical Decisions
• June 04, 2007 - What is wrong with Liberalism?
• May 29, 2007 - The Rethugs' Achilles Heel - Read, Lather and Repeat
• May 24, 2007 - Betting on gas prices - an update
• May 05, 2007 - Mutiple Deployments To Iraq Breaking Our Military
• May 04, 2007 - The Cabal
• April 30, 2007 - Priming the Deadeye impeachment pump
• April 30, 2007 - PLAN B: A National Referendum on the War in Iraq
• April 27, 2007 - Its Already Too Late
• April 26, 2007 - Knee-deep blood in the land of make-believe
• April 26, 2007 - Is the US currently fascist?
• April 25, 2007 - Vanishing Bees and Industrial Agriculture
• April 20, 2007 - On impeachment, again
• April 20, 2007 - Where Will It All End? (On Gonzales v. Carhart)
• April 18, 2007 - The myth of the school shooter profile
• April 15, 2007 - Why the Republican Presidential "Turn" is a Myth
• April 14, 2007 - Medical marijuana clinic defies subpoena, gag order
• April 13, 2007 - Rove is toast.
• March 31, 2007 - A Deadly U.S.-Iran Firefight
• March 29, 2007 - Proposed Rewrite of the Endangered Species Act
• March 29, 2007 - Is a Thirst for Blood behind the Purge?
• March 26, 2007 - Why are the Republicans only sort-of jumping ship?
• March 21, 2007 - I lost my bet on gas prices (w/ new poll!)
• March 20, 2007 - Be prepared, be calm, be cool, be steadfast.
• March 16, 2007 - Primary Concerns
• March 15, 2007 - About impeachment
• March 13, 2007 - Fifth comment claim report
• March 13, 2007 - Pelosi And Democratic Leadership Cave In To Cheney, Bush And Blue Dog Democrats
• March 10, 2007 - Hillary's War Vote: She Knew - Then & Now
• March 07, 2007 - Habeas Corpus: WWLD? (What Would Lincoln Do?)
• March 07, 2007 - Calling out South Carolina.
• March 07, 2007 - A Modest Proposal, to end this Libby-Pardon Nonsense
• March 05, 2007 - Nancy Pelosi: The Price Of A Soul
• March 03, 2007 - Will the Tide Turn Enough to Stop the Flood?
• February 27, 2007 - We need a bulwark against The State .... And this bulwark is built out of justice and laws."
• February 23, 2007 - In defense of Judge Larry
• February 20, 2007 - The more things change, the more they can remain the same.
• February 18, 2007 - "Like something green that comes up..."
• February 07, 2007 - A Conspiracy of Neglect
• February 06, 2007 - What Did Cpl Langarica Die For?
• February 03, 2007 - Misplaced Priorities: Cancer of the Attitude?
• January 31, 2007 - German Arrest Warrants for Ghost Air Crews
• January 29, 2007 - Another injustice perpetrated by mandatory minimums
• January 28, 2007 - Roots Remembered
• January 19, 2007 - The Narrowness of "No Child Left Behind"
• January 18, 2007 - Does Bush Support Our Troops?
• January 17, 2007 - German problems - Gitmo and the NPD
• January 11, 2007 - Bush Quietly "Repeals" Major Privacy Law
• January 11, 2007 - Lawyering lesson #10: Going partners with a client almost always comes to a bad end.
• January 09, 2007 - Feeding the Ravening Tempest (of Iraq)
• January 08, 2007 - Did Abu Gonzo perjure himself?
• January 03, 2007 - comment claim report
• January 02, 2007 - Let the oversight begin.
• January 01, 2007 - Get It While You Can?
• December 29, 2006 - In the Long Shadow of 9/11
• December 28, 2006 - Is MS new "Vista" both garbage and dangerous?
• December 21, 2006 - "The Moral Test of Government"
• December 19, 2006 - Is Hillary The Electable Dem?
• December 13, 2006 - A Bad day for Hamdan, A Worse Day for the Constitution
• December 11, 2006 - Tom "The Hammer" DeLay starts blog, (poll here!)
• December 10, 2006 - The End Of The Beginning?
• December 08, 2006 - Former WH military atty practiced while disbarred - for 20 years
• December 07, 2006 - Thanks to the Republicans
• December 05, 2006 - Bush v. Dodd: The Race To Not Change Military Tribunal Law
• December 02, 2006 - On the trashing of Jim Wallis
• November 29, 2006 - Torture's cancerous spread
• November 28, 2006 - No Child Left Behind is just Asinine
• November 25, 2006 - Perspective on Immigration
• November 19, 2006 - Cheney Says Dems Can't Stop Bush's War With Iran
• November 17, 2006 - Keisler must be blocked.
• November 17, 2006 - New Report Finds Bush Banned Rights Before Military Tribunal Law Enacted By Congress
• November 16, 2006 - What Do Hunger & Torture Have In Common? No Pain Equals No Existence.
• November 15, 2006 - Before There Were Devils, There Were Demons
• November 14, 2006 - Dems' Caucus Rules Say No On JOE!
• November 14, 2006 - re Anonymity
• November 13, 2006 - Were gas prices manipulated?
• November 08, 2006 - Shell-shocked pres blows his first press conference
• November 08, 2006 - Celebration's OVER. Get back to work.
• November 07, 2006 - Election follies
• November 06, 2006 - Last chance on groundbreaking Civil Unions amendment
• November 05, 2006 - If You Enjoy Progress, Thank A Liberal
• November 04, 2006 - "This is not an Election, it's an intervention"
• November 03, 2006 - Breaking: Bush Wants Command Of UN Forces
• November 02, 2006 - An Exception, Just This Once
• November 01, 2006 - Imagining Justice
• November 01, 2006 - Pool on Bin Laden Tape
• November 01, 2006 - Torture Mystery Solved
• October 31, 2006 - Biting the Bullet v. Using the Bullet
• October 31, 2006 - Bush's Trojan Horse Challenge Of Democratic Victory
• October 31, 2006 - One Day at an Interesting Time
• October 30, 2006 - Crime, Politics, and Justice News
• October 29, 2006 - My Day - 10/29/06
• October 29, 2006 - Bush Replays 2004 Bin Laden Card or the Limbaugh/Cheney/Military Echo Chamber!
• October 29, 2006 - 2006 Midterm Elections: Complicity or Responsibility?
• October 27, 2006 - Fitz Goes Ginsu on Scooter's Witness
• October 25, 2006 - Loserman: I fathered Iraq war, Bush enforces my policy there
• October 25, 2006 - On the NJ Gay Marriage case - briefly
• October 23, 2006 - How Could the Republicans Miss This Anniversary?
• October 23, 2006 - Third Comment Claim Report
• October 21, 2006 - Second Comment Claim Report
• October 21, 2006 - Bush's Absolute Power Grab
• October 21, 2006 - Cluster Bombs in the News
• October 20, 2006 - First Comment Claim Report
• October 19, 2006 - What can we do about Islamic Terrorism?
• October 19, 2006 - World Peace Lies In Voters' Hands
• October 19, 2006 - Twitchy, much?
• October 18, 2006 - I-95 Billboard: Torturers, your names are Lieberman, Shays, Simmons, Johnson