The Bush Legacy
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- The Winklevoss Twins of Getting Bin Laden
- In Response To Those Disturbed By Celebrating on the Death of Bin Laden
- How the Supreme Court Nomination Process Rewards the Type of People Who Defer to Presidential Authority
- A Sustainable Afghanistan Policy
- Must-Reads of the Week: The Obama 20-somethings, Graham's Cojones, Fannie/Freddie, Naive Conspiracy Theorists, Saban, Obama=Socialism, Political Imitations, Underdogs, Lost!, and Julián Castro
- Must-Reads of the Week: American Power, Inequality, 1 Billion Heartbeats, Hacking Life, Anthora Cups, Structural Deficit, Financial Doomsedays and Crises, China, the Tea Party's Views on Immigration, and Lady Gaga
- Miracles Can Happen!
- Must-Reads of the Week: Diabolical Republicans, Strategic Patience, Weiner, China, New York City, -20 Questions, & Glenn Beck's Obsession With Woodrow Wilson
- Dammit, Reddit! You know I sorta love you, but sometimes...
- Surveillance In the Bush Administration
- Must-Reads of the Week: Google/China, Liberal American Exceptionalism, The Failed War on Drugs, Defending the Individual Mandate, Counter Counter-Insurgency, Idiocrats, and Men Did It!
- Must-Reads of the Week: A history lesson, Reconciling Chart, Theism, Starbucks, the New Global Middle Class, the Beijing Consensus, and the Traitorous Supreme Court
- Must-Reads During This Week: Perfect Storm for Health Reform, Making Controversy, Cyberwar, Limiting Government, Liz Cheney's Al Qaeda Connection, George Will, and the Coffee Party
- "To give you that reference, to call you a soldier gives you far too much stature."
- Must-Reads of the Week: Ezra Klein, Sleeper Issue of 2010, Success, Virtual Insanity, Abdulmutallab, Obstruction, and Madden
- Not even the Bush administration argued that the Constitution applies only to American citizens
- Americans Want a Second Bush-Cheney Administration?
- John Yoo's Scandalous Affair With George W. Bush!
- The Obvious Truths Neglected in Responses to the Christmas Bomber
- The Best Proven Defense Against Terrorism
- Real Fiscal Responsibility & Deficit Politics: Democrats
- Real Fiscal Responsibility & Deficit Politics: Republicans
- Dueling Op-Eds
- The Emotional Logic of Trying KSM in Federal Court
- Deconstructing the Right Wing Appropriation of the Term "Appeasement"
- Chinese Racism, Andrew Ross Sorkin's Power, Andrew Sullivan's Catholicism, America's Decline (?), and Megan Fox's Savvy Self-Creation
- The perfect encapsulation of the liberal attacks on George W. Bush
- The Escalating War Over Judicial Appointments
- Former Bush Attorney General: American Justice System Led to September 11
- The Fallacies of Mukasey
- Must-Reads: Uighurs, Gay in Middle School, Vidal, Larison, the Public Option, and the End of Pax Americana
- Our "Small Freedoms"
- Glenn Greenwald's Civil Libertarian Propaganda
- Reevaluating George W. Bush's Legacy
- The Rift Torture Created Between the CIA and FBI Made America Less Safe
- Obama’s Dangerous Hypocrisy on Prisoners at Guantánamo and Bagram
- Dana Perino's Misleading Spin Regarding Matt Latimer
- A Reactionary Politics Leads To Torture
- What We Forgot All Too Quickly
- Must-Reads of the Week: Krugman v. Ferguson, Ted Kennedy again, Hank Paulson, Sedaris, and Phreaking
- Are You A Libertarian If...
- Andrew Sullivan: "American evangelicals are much more pro-torture in this respect than many Iranian Muslims"
- The CIA Hired Blackwater to Help with Covert Killings
- Gog et Magog, Hypomania in the White House, Reuters!, The Most Interesting Man in the World, and the NRLC
- The Libertarian-Democratic Alliance Will Survive
- Alberto Gonzales: Sharp Like An Old Crayon
- Is The Secret Plan Panetta Found Hersh's "Executive Assasination Ring"?
- McNamara, Cuomo, Bearing Witness, Iran's Bomb, Sri Lanken Victories, and Historical Dignity
- Henry Kissinger on Obama
- It Is a "War"
- John McCain's Hip-Shooting Onanism
- Experimenting With National Security Policy
- How Obama Uses Civility and Respect as Political Weapons
- NSA's Secret Pinwale Program Used to Spy on Bill Clinton
- A New Phase in the Culture War: National Security
- Obama's Grand Bargain (as a necessary response to the deficit problem)
- The Supreme Court Holds Up the Chrysler Sale
- "Nobody’s going to wage a tough political battle to give up power."
- Irony Watch: Cheney on Euphemisms
- A Truth Commission
- We Are All Guilty
- Must-Reads This Weekend
- Cheney Is Preemptively Politicizing The Next Attack
- The Lessons of Torture in World War II
- Ali Soufan Goes to Washington
- Must-Reads of the Week
- Andrew C. McCarthy's Self-Righteous Sophistry
- Why Should I Care If a Terrorist Was Tortured?
- Homo Blogicus, Pup, Pakistan, Torture, Marijuana, and the Revenge of Geography
- The Irony in the Jane Harman Mess
- Name, Rank and Serial Number
- When Obama Should Torture Osama
- Torture Works...For Some Things...
- Cheney Didn't Panic
- A man who thinks in grand words made up of few letters.
- The Iran-Iraq Balance
- Pakistan: The Nexus
- A Summary of the Civil Libertarian Case for a "War" Against Terrorism
- Congressman Pete King Wants Club Med Investigated For Human Rights Violations Just Like Guantanamo
- A Confession of Love To The Paradox That Is America
- Dubya's China Legacy
- Andrew Sullivan's Warning Shot
- The Games Obama Plays
- Post-Cold War Triumphalism
- The Abuse of the State Secrets Privilege
- Torture, Plain and Simple
- Galvanized By Sexual Panic
- Why It Should Be A 'War' Against Terrorism
- Not Taking the War on Terror Seriously