Several commenters over the last few weeks have opined that Democratic leadership should flex its muscle and exercise party discipline by punishing recalcitrant moderates who break ranks and vote with the Republicans to filibuster (deny cloture) on healthcare bill on the floor of the Senate. You are not alone, more than 79,000 people have signed [...]

Last week, former Senator and GOP Presidential candidate Bob Dole went public endorsing President Obama’s attempt to reform healthcare. Dole did so over already existing objections by Mitch McConnell and other Republicans. It spite of those objections, Dole publicly issued a joint statement with Tom Daschle saying: The American people have waited decades, and if [...]

Lanny Breuer thinks he needs to rearrange the department to better hunt human rights abusers. Me, I think he should just go get Addignton and Cheney.

Howie Kurtz doesn’t think the environmental damage new coal plants do is very visual.

I’ve been working on adding some of the dates from this FOIA to my warrantless wiretap FOIA, and I wanted to elaborate on two coincidences of timing I pointed out in this post. Mind you, I think we have to assume they’re just coincidences at this point, not causally related. But they do show that [...]

Today at 5 pm EST and 2 pm PST/FDL time, I will be hosting Professor David Cole at FDL for a Book Salon discussion of his new compilation of the bush Administration torture memos. Here is the quick blurb on the book

I wonder whether the FBI will respond to the white supremacists making TATP the same way they responded to alleged Islamic extremists doing so?

In my last post, I described how the Obama Administration had gotten Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III to introduce an amendment to the PATRIOT Act essentially gutting minimization in the case of pen registers and trap and trace devices. This means they can bulk collect your communication information, find out who you communicate with and for [...]

Obama, hiding behind Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III’s skirts, has just attempted to gut privacy protections associated with pen registers, which are probably a key part of the government’s massive data mining program on Americans.

Well another week has come and gone and people are still talking about the Most Interesting Man In The World and what he has been doing up in the land of the Norske. Well enough about that, let’s talk football.National Favre League: This is a horrid week for NFL matchups; none of them are great and most are downright lame.