On NSA surveillance, there is much less hypocrisy than you might expect.
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The Verizon Data Order and Why It Matters
Creating “national security” exemptions to the Fourth Amendment in the context of an open-ended conflict where the whole world is the battlefield and the conflict has no clear end point is very dangerous.
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The Right’s Cult of Obama
From Peggy Noonan to Mitch McConnell to the Tea Party caucus, conservatives have a habit of making it all about Barack, all the time.Â
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Once Upon a Time, There Was a President …
The president’s job requirements aren’t laid out very well in the Constitution. The position is mostly an empty shell filled up with 44 presidencies worth of precedents.
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Republicans Mad that President They Despise, Obstruct, and Lie About Doesn’t Call More Often
There’s just no pleasing some people.
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Let’s Talk about Tax Reform
Yes, the IRS scandal has nothing to do with the kind of reforms Republicans say they want. But why not start the process?
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Why Republicans Can’t Destroy Obama
All they have is their anger, when what they need is a competent effort to undo the presidency.
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Not Too Shabby So Far: Obama’s Judicial Legacy
Liberals may not be happy about the rate at which Obama has filled vacancies, but they ought to give him credit for significantly increasing diversity on the federal bench. And he still has three years to go.
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Obama’s Sports Bloopers
His loss to Chris Christie at a carnival football-toss game Tuesday was one of several occassions where the president fell short in his athletic endeavors.
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Shorting the D.C. Circuit
Even if his three simultaneous judicial nominees are blocked, it’s a win-win situation for the president that just might mean the beginning of the end for the filibuster. Â
