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Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball report for Newsweek that the Obama administration plans to release confidential memos from the Bush Office of Legal Counsel laying out the rationale for using torture on terror suspects over the objections of former Bush administration officials. Because of an executive order signed by President Obama on Jan. 22 banning […]

It looks like Jimmy Fallon‘s late night show won’t be going the way of Chevy Chase. According to Variety, Fallon is already beating Conan O’Brien‘s ratings: Jimmy Fallon finished his first week as host of NBC’s “Late Night” franchise on top, beating all cable and broadcast competition while also besting incumbent Conan O’Brien’s season average. […]

Responding to this piece I wrote for The Root that ended up in the Washington Post this weekend, Spencer Ackerman writes: Comic book companies clearly need more diversity in the superhero enterprise. These sorts of disputes need to be settled, or at least loaded with enough documentation to make an ongoing dispute about who could […]

Andrew Malcolm, responding to a photo that shows a man at a homeless shelter snapping a cellphone picture of Michelle Obama during a volunteer visit, writes: If this unidentified meal recipient is too poor to buy his own food, how does he afford a cellphone? And if he is homeless, where do they send the […]

Senator Jim DeMint, who is really concerned about switchblade wielding Negro children in DC public schools, argues that we need vouchers because “If you send a kid to [public] school in D.C., chances are that they will end up in a gang rather than graduating.” Matt Finkelstein points out that DeMint should probably pay more […]

Although the Obama administration released nine previously undisclosed memos from the Bush era Office of Legal Counsel, a number of memos remain secret, and the existence of others was revealed by the memos that were disclosed. The ACLU has a complete list of the memos that have and have not been release. There are many […]

The Hill has a story today on how fear of the National Rifle Association still animates politics in Congress, and how the House version of a bill that would give D.C. representation in Congress is being held up because, unlike the Senate version, it doesn’t completely gut gun control laws in the District. The NRA […]

Kathleen Parker on the Limbaugh dust-up: El Rushbo can’t have minded much, despite his protestations that he was being maligned by the White House to distract Americans from the “plunging economy.” What could be better for a talking head than to be chosen by a president as his worthy adversary?  At least both sides certainly […]

There’s a part of me that hears Rush Limbaugh‘s comments about wanting President Obama to fail and reads Bill Kristol‘s cynical advice to Republicans about opposing the Democratic agenda no matter how it affects the public good that wants to turn the tables on conservatives for the past eight years of McCarthyism. The insipid questioning […]

Yesterday, Glenn Thrush reported that the kindly New Orleans Sheriff Harry Lee referred to in Bobby Jindal‘s response speech advocated racial profiling of black residents in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and once said, “We know the crime is in the black community. Why should I waste time in the white community?” Well it turns […]