Andrew Sullivan is doing Sullivanesque worrying about his impending marriage. Don’t worry! Aaron’s terrific. All Kleins wish you both all the best.
Yesterday, a federal court of appeals in California heard oral argument in a case, Hepting v. AT&T, involving the Bush administration’s unauthorized domestic spying program. Here’s how two of the judges reacted to the arguments made by administration lawyers that no court can review the legality of the program because doing so would require the [...]
I almost posted this clip from the Daily Show in the Jumble, but decided to go with the funnier one. This clip — and interview with Cheney biographer Stephen Hayes — has its moments, but it takes a decidedly serious and person turn towards the end, when Stewart starts demanding that Hayes explain why the [...]
The Family Research Council, founded by James Dobson, has announced its plans for a “three-day ‘Values Voter Summit’ this fall, complete with a presidential straw poll.” People For the American Way staff dropped in on last year’s “Values Voters Summit” where they learned, among other things, that the anti-Christ is gay. Although there’s “no word [...]
Here’s a piece on Rove’s departure that I wrote for the print issue that comes out tomorrow.
• This is not the Iraq report you’re looking for. [WP] •Liveblogging the illegal wiretapping case: “Plaintiffs acknowledge that the room is central to their case and that they don’t know what is going on in that room. Something else could be going on in that room. Just to pick one, it could be FISA [...]
Iraqslogger is reporting a new government coalition of Shi’ites and Kurds. But no Sadrists or Sunnis. Presumably the new government will be meeting in Baghdad, a city largely controlled by Sadrists. Sounds like a recipe for more civil war to me.
Josh Marshall on today’s Washington Post report about the utter futility of trying to limit the testimony of Petraeus and Crocker: Perhaps I’m missing something. But doesn’t this sound like the anxiety is a little more pronounced on the White House side since they’re the ones trying to bag on the report that has been [...]
Fairly hilarious “interview” of Karl Rove by Rush Limbaugh yesterday. In it, Rove described his essential strategy in presidential campaigns: The fallback position in politics is if you don’t know what you want to be about, and if you don’t know what your vision is, go at somebody else. Oh, wait. He wasn’t talking about [...]
