Archive for May, 2009
You Don’t Say
As a Professor, Obama Held Pragmatic Views on Court – New York Times (5/3/09): In interviews, former colleagues and students say they have a fairly strong sense of the kind of justice he will favor: not a larger-than-life liberal to counter the conservative pyrotechnics of Justice Antonin Scalia, but a careful pragmatist with a limited [...]
Mysterious Dulles Security Lockdown
There was a curious incident at Dulles airport in Washington, D.C. on Saturday. There was a security lockdown, apparently for two hours. The curious thing is that when you take a stethoscope to the internets, there is only one single mention of the incident, on the DCist blog: Dulles police confirmed reports from sources that [...]
Fiscal Responsibility In The War Against Terror
Here’s an interesting factoid. Until last month, we still maintained our network of empty CIA secret prisons. Shutting them down for good — as CIA chief Leon Panetta finally did last month — saved taxpayers $4 million (presumably, per year, though the NYT sloppily does not make it clear). When Mr. Obama was sworn in [...]
Josh Marshall Rides Again
In keeping with our policy of giving TPM typo king Josh Marshall a shout-out whenever he produces a particularly note-worthy typo performance, here he is on Sunday with two typos in one short sentence: And party’s aren’t political cells or even clubs; they/re coalitions. This joins previously noted notable performances like a typo in each [...]
Replacing Souter
Justice Souter has announced his imminent retirement: Justice David H. Souter has indicated that he plans to retire at the end of the term in June, giving President Obama his first appointment to the Supreme Court, three people informed about the decision said Thursday night. Justice Souter, who was appointed by a Republican president, George [...]