Aug
31
So Mike now contributes to The Atlantic, and thus in an indirect way he works with or possibly even for Megan McArdle. McArdle is one of the few people who can claim to be a Professional Blogger. This is her job. This is essentially the only job she has ever had (you can read about her lavish, tax-dollar-funded upbringing on AlterNet , paying special attention to the fact that her only employment aside from Expert Economist on The Internet was working for her dad’s friends). There are some days
Aug
31
The White House spokesman says President Barack Obama has not yet seen a new assessment of the Afghan war . “I think they (the Obama administration) thought this would be more popular and easier,” a senior Pentagon official said. ” We are not getting a Bush-like commitment to this war. ” Monday’s assessment initially was to include troop recommendations, but political concerns prompted White House and Pentagon officials to agree that those recommendations would come later, advisers to
Aug
31
More than five years after the Supreme Court ruled that a Kuwaiti national, Fawzi Khalid Abdullah Fahad Al Odah, had a right to challenge his detention at Guantanamo Bay, a federal judge has decided that challenge, upholding Al Odah’s captivity. Al Odah’s challenge was the second oldest of the Guantanamo cases in U.S. District Court, but went to the Supreme Court in 2003 as part of the first test of presidential detention power. (Al Odah’s case was a companion to Rasul v. Bush , the first-fil
Aug
31
AFGHAN WOMEN SHOW THEIR JOY AT SEEING AMERICAN TROOPS President Hussein Hopenchange has already said he isn’t “in it to win it” in Afghanistan. No surprise there! Maybe he’s even drawing up articles of surrender for his Muslim guests he’ll host at tomorrow night’s Ramadan dinner at the White House. Oh, what a night it will be! They’ll dine on goat asses and celebrate Muslim accomplishments in the United States. I’ve thought hard but the only thing I can remember Muslims doing in the US i
Aug
31
Our glorious and charismatic Leader and Teacher will now come directly in to the classroom in order that the rising generation will be well grounded in theoretical and practical Obamunism! All Hail our Leader! No, I’m not kidding . Imagine if President Bush had decided to do something like this?
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