Month: February 2006

(Cross-posted at Daily Kos and my blog)Yesterday I did a diary on a proposed Constitutional amendment to give Congress the power to regulate campaign finances.  Really, an editorial in The Washington Post caught my eye and...

There is a connection in that the jihadis who perpetrated 9/11 could not have expected a better outcome. They knew the US reaction would be a swift and brutal vengeance against a Muslim country. Those who attacked the USA on...

I was upset that my local Democracy for America chapter, Philly for Change didn’t endorse Chuck Pennacchio for the US Democratic Senate primary here in PA [the group did not endorse anyone], but other DfAs across the state...

There are several ways that Cheney may unilaterally authorize the leak of classified information, such as the NIE, to unauthorized persons under color of legal authority. In terms of declassifying authority, Cheney may argue...

Thanks to rba for pointing me to Jane Mayer’s excellent and devastating article in the New Yorker. Ms. Mayer does a profile in courage on Alberto J. Mora, the outgoing general counsel of the United States Navy, who waged a...