The NY Post reports that some are suggesting Jamie Dimon to replace Tim Geithner.

Late last Wednesday, there was a blockbuster court ruling that got lost in the healthcare and oversight hearing onslaught. However, the decision by Eastern District of Louisiana Judge Stanwood R. Duval Jr. in the In Re: Katrina Canal Breaches Consolidated Litigation case is a game changer with immense and far reaching ramifications.

What a Saturday, all village elders have predicted Sarah Palin was the force to be reckoned with for the 2012 Republican nomination and that Barack Obama was in trouble.

Mary has already linked to this article on how and why Greg Craig got thrown out in comments. But I wanted to make sure everyone read it. The short version of the timeline it describes is: April 16: Obama releases the torture memos April 17: Greg Craig moves to release Uighurs in US April 20: [...]

Oh this is beautiful: It seems that the Brett Favre-Green Bay Packers saga is such a worldwide phenomenon that it’s being used by detainees in American military camps. According to a military official, detainees at a Wisconsin National Guard camp in Iraq are using Brett Favre as a manner of getting at the guard troops [...]

Note: EFF has added one more set of documents–from the Civil Division. So if you think you’re done, you might not be, yet. This will be another working thread on the EFF FOIA Documents–I’ll be focusing on the Office of Legal Counsel documents. Here was the first working thread (National Security Division documents) and the [...]

Jim Comey and Jack Goldsmith tell the scaredy cats they’re being silly.

Ho hum. Now I’m catching Crazy Pete in lies he told two years ago.

Studs Terkel’s FBI file probably looks like a lot of activists being profiled today look like.

I realize that Mitch McConnell really pushed Obama to do this. (h/t SE) Still, there seems an inherent–and glaring–problem with appointing Dana Perino to serve on the Broadcast Board of Governors. It’s this: Created in 1994, the BBG oversees all of the US government’s non-military international broadcasting outlets, including Voice of America, Alhurra television, Radio [...]