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Earlier today I discussed the uproar over a poll on Facebook asking “should Obama be killed.” Someone reported it to the Secret Service, the poll was pulled (it’s not clear to me by whom), and Facebook even disabled the poll application for now. There was much argument, here or elsewhere, about whether the poll was a criminal threat. My position is that it is clearly not, because it does not meet the legal definition of a “true threat” — that is, that is to say: a statement, writt
Sep
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Iran sanctions: gutter ball (Alex Nabaum/NYT) More pragmatism on Iran on the op-ed pages of the N.Y. Times. Today’s common sense comes from Flynt and Hillary Leverett , who pose a persuasive argument that anything short of a comprehensive diplomatic initiative simply cannot work regarding Iran: TEHRAN’S disclosure that it is building a second uranium enrichment plant near the holy city of Qum has derailed the Obama administration’s already faltering efforts to engage with Iran. The Unite
Sep
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Fake but accurate Just accurate. Details : Bad news for Dan Rather: His $70 million lawsuit against CBS is no more. In a 19-page decision made public Tuesday, a state appeals court dismissed the legendary newsman’s suit against CBS. Rather, 77, sued the Tiffany network in 2007 after his career at CBS collapsed in the wake of a “60 Minutes II” report about former President George W.Bush’s Vietnam-era military service. The folksy newsman accused CBS executives of caving to Republican i
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Yahoo! News (AP), “ Dan Rather’s $70M lawsuit against CBS thrown out ” by Karen Matthews The court said there was no breach of contract, because CBS still paid Rather his $6 million annual salary after the disputed 2004 broadcast under the “pay or play” provision of his contract. NEW YORK – A New York court on Tuesday dismissed Dan Rather’s $70 million breach of contract lawsuit against CBS Corp., noting that the network continued to pay the anchor $6 million a year even after he
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“While the economic crisis continues to overshadow other topics, world politics is undergoing rapid and dramatic changes. In areas from national security policy to trade, the Obama administration has repudiated Bush-era precedents significantly, if not rapidly enough for some critics on the left. The pressures on the administration to continue in the path followed by U.S. administrations since the fall of the Berlin Wall are intense, particularly in light of the victory of the hard-liners in Ira
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