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A survey of the jurors in the case of alleged Tanzanian Embassy bomber Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani shows they aren’t as terrified as some politicians and pundits might like them to be: The questionnaires show that none of the 12 jurors said they thought the methods used by the United States to respond to terrorism, including […]

Greg Sargent has the lowdown on how Nevada Senate Candidate Sharron Angle came to believe two towns, one of which doesn’t exist, had been taken over by “sharia law.” Angle’s explanation for stating that sharia had taken over in Dearborn, Michigan, is that “I had read that in one place, that they have started using […]

As part of an attempt to push the already faltering peace talks off a cliff, right-wing Israeli politicians have been pushing a “loyalty oath” as a requirement for citizenship that proclaims “loyalty to the State of Israel as a state that is Jewish, Zionist, and democratic, to its symbols and values.” This strikes me as […]

The fact that Lou Dobbs, who is responsible for some of the absolute worst lies about illegal immigrants actually hired some should come as a shock to no one: But with his relentless diatribes against “illegals” and their employers, Dobbs is casting stones from a house—make that an estate—of glass. Based on a yearlong investigation, […]

The Washington Post has a piece up saying that in the four years since it was created to help bridge the gap between law enforcement and national security, the Justice Department’s National Security Division has drawn “mixed reviews.” Now, that’s understandable, particularly considering the NSD’s focus on prosecuting leaks to journalists during the tenure of […]

The New York Times‘ account of how the purchase of the Tribune company affected the workplace, turning it into something resembling “a frat house, complete with poker parties, juke boxes and pervasive sex talk,” adds an incredibly sad and well-reported chapter to the slow death of the newspaper industry. One of their first priorities was […]

So, one of the flaws with the inverted Tea Party metaphor as an explanation for Vincent Gray‘s mayoral victory doesn’t hold is that even within the confines of a mostly black city like Washington DC, where no politician who hopes to maintain office can afford to alienate black voters, Gray still has to make nice […]

I’m somewhat shocked to see Andrew Sullivan defending the administration’s targeted killing program against Glenn Greenwald and Daniel Larison–particularly his citation of the Ex Parte Quirin case that conservatives generally use to argue against giving suspected terrorists access to American courts. But of course we do give terror detainees such access, because unlike the German […]

Felix Salmon points to a new study supporting what we’ve known for a while, that black and Latino borrowers were disproportionately targeted with subprime loans regardless of income or credit history as part of an effort to meet demand for risky mortgage backed securities, a practice that exacerbated the economic crisis. Or, as employees for […]

Via i09, Gail Simone shows off her mastery of the double entendre: Cartoons often are often consciously created with subtextual material intended to amuse the adults who will likely have to sit through them, but in these days of geek ascendancy lots of adults actually watch this kind of stuff on their own, and the […]