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Worst President Ever, Revisited

Sat, 09 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Firedoglake - By Eli - Jul. 09 (Opinion) - No, I’m not ready to crown Barack Obama the Worst President Ever just yet, but consider this.

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The WaPo Declares Itself Unable to Find the Truth

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Firedoglake - By Marcy Wheeler - Aug. 31 (Opinion) - The WaPo wants you to know that it--one of the most storied newspapers in American history--is absolutely incapable of sorting through the facts about whether Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's torture turned him into a helpful college professor of terror.

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Lil Debbie Says Washington Post Should Criticize Obama More to Please Conservatives

Sat, 01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Firedoglake - Nov. 01 (Opinion) - The Washington Post's Deborah Howell has a long history of sending readers to the dictionary to determine whether the term "ombudsman" entails systematically perverting journalistic standards. But her column today (h/t Julia) proves again the problem is not the term but the fact Ms. Howells has no idea what it means.

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A Line Was Crossed At Postville

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Firedoglake - By David Neiwert - Jul. 15 (Opinion) - an essay by Erik Camayd-Freixas, a Spanish-language court interpreter...called in to help process detainees in the raid...[supports the the observation that] the Department of Homeland Security, in collusion with the Justice Department, is..."basically gaming the Federal judiciary using existing law, rules and regulations to force the judiciary to act as a coerced agent of the executive to imprison undocumented workers, after which they are deported with a prison record."

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That's Some Catch, That Catch-22.' 'It's The Best There Is'

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Firedoglake - By David Neiwert - Jul. 06 (Opinion) - That pretty much describes the nativist approach to immigration in general. And in the process of fixing something by making it worse, they're conveniently disenfranchising thousands, perhaps millions, of American citizens, stripping them of their rights as citizens.

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Clinton Supporter Ejected From Rules Meeting, 'McCain Will Be Our Next President'

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 00:11:07 -0700

Firedoglake - By Jane Hamsher - Jun. 01 (Opinion) - Things grew increasingly contentious toward the end of the Rules Committee meeting, and a Clinton supporter -- who identified herself as Harriet Christian -- was ejected from the room.

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Our Lady of the Law

Fri, 23 Nov 2007 15:20:26 -0800

Firedoglake - By Looseheadprop - Nov. 23 (News Analysis) - Mario Cuomo gave a speech on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving to 2,000 of the most influential lawyers in NYC. The program didn't give a title for the speech, but Gov. Cuomo repeatedly invoked, as if she were some kind of Catholic saint, "Our Lady of the Law."

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Burying the truth about Bush

Mon, 24 Sep 2007 18:26:13 -0700

Firedoglake - By David Neiwert - Sep. 24 (Opinion) - The credibility of the Washington Post's editorial page took another hit today with Charles Lane's nasty hit piece attacking Dan Rather -- suggesting he's not in his right mind -- for suing CBS in the aftermath of ... "Rathergate"

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More Than Ever, Impeachment Is the Cure

Fri, 14 Sep 2007 09:00:10 -0700

Firedoglake - By Scarecrow - Sep. 14 (News Report) - Last night we heard the President of the United States declare that he would refuse to allow US troops to come home from Iraq until they achieved "success" as he and only he defined success. "Return on success," he told the troops, adding that ...

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The Consequences Of Inaction

Wed, 29 Aug 2007 08:08:16 -0700

Firedoglake - By Christy Hardin Smith - Aug. 29 (Opinion) - Many in the Gulf Coast live, day in and day out, in the shadows of George Bush's many failures. In the aftermath of all those enabling decisions for no oversight and no accountability from the rubber stamp Republicans (and, can't forget, no oversight Joe). The folks in the Gulf Coast live the consequences of the Bush Administration's inaction:

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Late Nite FDL: Why the Republicans are Running From YouTube

Wed, 01 Aug 2007 04:40:07 -0700

Firedoglake - By TRex - Aug. 01 (Opinion) - Let's get something straight here. The reason the Republicans are running from a YouTube debate has nothing to do with embarrassing themselves and everything to do with the horror that is the Republican base (see video).

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No Pardon. No Commutation. No Way.

Thu, 07 Jun 2007 10:06:16 -0700

Firedoglake - By Christy Hardin Smith - Jun. 07 (Opinion) - It took FFFH all of one day to gin up a "Free Scooter The Felon" op-ed. At least this morning's offering isn't from the usual sources, but honestly, it is unseemly for a former federal prosecutor to be arguing commutation of sentence by a jury of Libby's peers for undercutting the heart of a criminal investigation into a betrayal of national security secrets. But then again, perhaps that is just my commitment to the Rule of Law and not to the Bush administration's rule of loyalty talking.

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Antiwar Groups Pushing Democrats

Mon, 07 May 2007 10:35:45 -0700

Firedoglake - By Jane Hamsher - May. 07 (Opinion) - It is to the credit of everyone involved that they are working together, evidently with some success, to enourage Democrats to hang together and oppose Bush and bring the war to an end in a fundamental way. Count us in as part of the firestorm.

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Fitzgerald Post-Trial Press Conference

Tue, 06 Mar 2007 11:15:04 -0800

Firedoglake - By Christy Hardin Smith - Mar. 06 (Opinion) - What is now clear, we knew that Mr. Libby had told a story. What is now public is that the FBI had learned that Russert did not and could not have told Libby the information regarding Mrs. Wilson. As prosecutors, we could not walk away from the fact that Libby was lying to federal investigators and the grand jury. Seems to me that no responsible prosecutor could walk away from that -- the facts justify themselves.

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Meanwhile, Back at the Courthouse...

Mon, 26 Feb 2007 08:15:01 -0800

Firedoglake - By Jane Hamsher - Feb. 26 (Opinion) - I'm at the courthouse, and as Christy said in her update, one of the jurors was exposed to media coverage of the trial. Nobody really expected anything early this morning, so everyone is scrambling into the media room to try and figure out what's going on. Both teams are in the courtroom, and Fitzgerald, Wells, Jeffress and the judge are back with the jurors. Lots of finger drumming, toe tapping and leg swinging on the part of those left waiting. I'm sure the message from the judge to come back to court this morning was like a tazer jolt to everyone's already jangled nerves this morning.

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Dick Cheney And The Dog That Didn't Bark

Thu, 08 Feb 2007 08:21:47 -0800

Firedoglake - By Scarecrow - Feb. 08 (Opinion) - The media are now keenly aware that it is not just Scooter Libby on trial; he is also the proxy for a Vice President whose credibility and reputation, already damaged, are being destroyed by one revelation after another. Last night, the major networks/cable channels covered this as a lead story, and PBS' News Hour devoted a large segment to it.

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Libby Trial Jury Selection: Day One Recap of Libby's Dilemma

Wed, 17 Jan 2007 00:05:00 -0800

Firedoglake - By Pachacutec - Jan. 17 (Opinion) - Therein lies the challenge for Team Libby: of the nine jurors reviewed in depth today, three were excused. Two I've described to you, and one was excused due to the demands on her time of her work commitments as a free lance contractor paying the rent month to month. What's telling is this: no jurors were excused for cause based on any predispositions that might prejudice them against the prosecution. Just the defense. Libby has a war problem, and though this case is narrowly about felony charges of obstruction of justice and perjury, wherein the case for war in Iraq provides only the setting, the unavoidable drama and context of this case is the case made for war in Iraq and the credibility of this administration, and in particular, the Office of the Vice President.

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Good Portents for 2007

Mon, 01 Jan 2007 19:10:03 -0800

Firedoglake - By Jane Hamsher - Jan. 01 (Opinion) - I just wanted to point out something that gave me a lot of hope today. Sue mentioned it in the comments -- over at the WaPo, in response to Joe Lieberman's Op-Ed calling for a "troop surge," there are 37 pages of negative comments.

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Lamont Closing Q-Poll Gap

Thu, 17 Aug 2006 18:38:32 -0700

Firedoglake - By Christy Hardin Smith - Aug. 17 (Poll) - The latest Q-Poll numbers have hit the wires. Lieberman still has a lead in the overall polling numbers — but the trend in each successive poll has been that Ned Lamont is closing the gap.

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America's Public Employees: Live Like Slaves, Die Like Dogs

Tue, 27 Jun 2006 23:33:50 -0700

Firedoglake - By Jordan Barab - Jun. 27 (Opinion) - The New York state legislature passed a bill last week by a vote of 194-1 to modify the state’s notorious "Taylor Law" that makes it illegal for public employees to strike. The Taylor law currently penalizes workers two days wages for every day on strike, high fines for the union and jail time for union leaders.

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