This is outrageous…and dangerous as well. The Maliki government allows two high-ranking, murdering crooks to go free after they–obviously–intimidate all the potential witnesses. This was a very high profile case, a real test of whether the Maliki government would insist on justice that punishes Shi’ites…in this case, Sadr-related Shi’ites who were alleged to have been [...]

Remember how the neoconservatives indulged in free-range bleating after the National Intelligence Estimate was released on Iran’s nuclear bomb program last December? It was said that the report, which held that Iran had stopped work on its bomb-building program, would undercut the crucial economic sanctions imposed by the United Nations on Iran’s uranium enrichment scheme [...]

Jeff Toobin, just now, on the HRC conf call, used the phrase “fouling the Democratic nest.” I think I’m in love.

Personally, I would be happy to never listen to another one of these again, but I think The Page has the right idea in posting them for the world to hear (if they want to): Raw data has value in a world where it’s way too easy to ingest nothing but processed idea-food. So, with [...]

Superlative? Suspicious? Surreal? Do we need to keep it in the “s” neighborhood? In any case, I will be live-blogging the returns tonight, from about 6PM on. UPDATE: An early leader from KathyR! I love “Telltale Tuesday”! Top that, QH…