Month: June 2009

More from Downing Street

We’ve heard this stuff before, but it is good to have it confirmed by another Downing Street Memo. Bush and Blair knew very well that it was unlikely that the UN inspectors would find WMD nearly two months before they...

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Leave Mark Sanford Alone!

No, this isn’t a spoof of the “leave Britney alone” meme. I’m quite serious.I don’t know Mark Sanford. I know he’s a hardline conservative asshole who is perfectly willing to sacrifice the...

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Paternalistic Analogy

Joe Klein is right. I’m trying to think of the right analogy to use that would explain the United States relationship with Iran’s reformers. It’s kind of like a father who, through the mistreatment of his...

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Supreme Court Upholds Right to Pollute

Your Bush’s Supreme Court hearts polluters: The U.S. Supreme Court’s Monday decision allowing a gold mine near Juneau to discharge its waste into a fish-bearing lake could be the final word in the long-running...

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