10.23.11 | 7:47 am
Rick Perry Goes Birther

One dinner with Donald Trump and suddenly Rick Perry is all birther.

10.23.11 | 7:23 am
Rick Perry’s Record On Jobs

The Austin American-Statesman reports on a state program to fund agribusiness startups that Rick Perry oversaw back when we was Texas’ commissioner of agriculture in the ’90s: Read More

10.23.11 | 7:15 am
Major Earthquake In Turkey

The latest reports from Turkey are warning of as many as 1,000 deaths in today’s 7.2 earthquake, centered near Van in eastern Turkey.

10.23.11 | 7:05 am
Reduced To One

I hesitated to post this, but it’s the clearest video I’ve seen of the apparent capture of Qaddafi and, while disturbing to watch, it’s not as graphic as this kind of thing could be.

I remember having a similar reaction to images of Saddam Hussein after his capture: how banal the whole situation seems, how reductionist, how one man is ultimately too small and fragile to be the receptacle for all the retributive anger and violence he himself has unleashed.

Ultimately it challenges our sense of what it means to do justice. A summary execution isn’t very satisfying, but neither is execution after due process in a case like this. Like the hole he left in the ground in Lockerbie, there is just a chasm of injustice too deep to be filled. Read More

10.23.11 | 6:31 am
From Silk Purse To Sow’s Ear

Lindsey Graham went on Fox News this morning and attempted to make a sow’s ear out of the silk purse of Obama’s recent foreign policy successes.

Lindsey Graham: Obama ‘Failed’ In Iraq
10.23.11 | 6:17 am