Clearly Jon Meacham and his deputy editors at Newsweek could use a refresher course in compelling journalism from their sister ship test proctors at the Stanley Kaplan Corporation. Newsweek, you see, has just seen fit to publish a lengthy interpretation of Ayn Rand by none other that Appalachian Trail aficionado Mark Sanford. The Fountainhead is [...]

One of the obvious questions from the announcement of the musicians Rage Against Musical Torture, and one that several people have been asking, is what avenues of legal recourse do the musicians have? It turns out remarkably few, if any. Here is why.

Someone let Dick “PapaDick” Cheney out of his undisclosed location last night–they even gave him an award for being a “keeper of the flame.” In spite of the fact that the press is covering it as another serious attack from Cheney, I find it pretty laughable. How else to treat a speech, for example, in [...]

Close Gitmo Now goes after the government’s use of music in torture.

Yet another story suggesting Rahm is making Greg Craig the scapegoat for the Administration’s stumbles on torture.

Steve Rattner’s narrative of the auto bailout provides a heroic story of how the banksters pulled off the Chrysler and GM bankruptcies. But it also betrays the continued ignorance of the banksters about their own industry.

Apparently, there are non-exempt CIA IG documents that are part of John Durham’s investigation into the destruction of the torture tapes.

Ezra has another “workers don’t understand” post arguing for the benefit of the excise tax to fund health care. There’s good reason to think that if health-care costs can be tamed, wages will rise. But one of the big problems in health-care reform is that workers don’t understand this connection. They think of health-care coverage [...]

John Conyers has submitted three more bills designed to increase versigh tof the executive branch.

John Conyers, Jerry Nadler, and Bobby Scott just introduced bills that will provide needed reforms to PATRIOT and FISA while reauthorizing most of the sunsetting authorities this year. From the Committee press release, the PATRIOT bill does the following. Title I:  Patriot Act Related Amendments Roving Wiretaps • Clarifies roving wiretap laws in order to [...]