Some news from Trinidad: Mr. Obama came to this lush and mountainous Caribbean island with the aim of forging new relationships in a region that felt ignored by his predecessor, and on that score he clearly succeeded. He tamped...
Read MoreSeeing Sen. John Ensign (R-NV) acting like an idiot got me thinking about the future of Republicans in the Senate. When they convene in 2011, what is the Senate likely to look like? Here are some predictions. Right now, Chris...
Read MoreMichael Isikoff and Evan Thomas, report in Newsweek: Though administration officials declared that CIA interrogators who followed Justice’s legal guidance on torture would not be prosecuted, that does not mean the...
Read MoreIt just occurred to me that it is tennis weather. Or kayaking. Or whatever.
Read MoreA lot of the early analysis of the Obama administration’s decision not to prosecute underlings involved in torture has focused on the Nuremberg Trials’ insistence that ‘just following orders’ is not a...
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