Mitch McConnell and Richard Burr’s Authoritarian Power Grab Fails
Last night, Mitch McConnell dealt himself a humiliating defeat. As I correctly predicted a month before events played out, McConnell tried to create a panic that would permit him and Richard Burr to...
View ArticleThe Play on the Scalia Replacement: Remember the Lame Duck
Within minutes after the public announcement of Antonin Scalia’s death, Senator Mike Lee’s flack Conn Carroll started predicting Obama would have zero chance of successfully naming a successor. After...
View ArticlePredictions of Israeli Attack on Iran Hit Traditional Media–How We Got There
In late November of 2007, the world–and especially the progressive blogosphere–was shocked when the George W. Bush administration released a National Intelligence Estimate that came to the firm...
View ArticleUdall Amendment Fails 37-61
In the battle of two wrong sides, the Democrats lost, with the Udall Amendment failing 37-61. The vote is interesting, first of all, as a read of Obama’s ability to sustain a veto. Right now, the...
View ArticleOMIGOD James Clapper Has Our Gun Purchase Records
It’s a testament to Ron Wyden’s good faith that this letter — asking James Clapper for more information about the government’s secret use of the Section 215 provision of the PATRIOT Act — didn’t try to...
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Dragnet at Bernie’s: On Spying on Congress
It turns out that Mark Kirk — not Bernie Sanders — was the first member of Congress to raise concerns about the NSA spying on Senators after Edward Snowden’s leaks started being published. Kirk did so...
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