TPM Reader JO says he buys Ellsberg’s argument about the different country we’re living in today …
Ellsberg says “The country I stayed in was a different America, a long time ago” and you ask what that means.
Ellsberg points out that Snowden would get the full Manning treatment. I buy that. If Snowden had been sitting in any Holiday Inn in the USA instead of in Hong Kong, do you have any doubt that he would now be under the control of federal authorities, and unable to move or communicate?
Need a primer on just what’s happened over the last 10 days in Egypt. Broken down day by day. Here it is.
Longtime TPM Reader JL tries a hypothetical with himelf. What would Rand Paul have to do, have to propose to get him to abandon the Democratic candidate in 2016?
I’m just one person and this is about just one moment in time but …
Yesterday, reading the NYT article on FISA Court, I found myself thinking, if Rand Paul were to make GWOT reform the, or at least a, centerpiece of his campaign … and if he were to get the nomination … what would he have to include, and perhaps more importantly exclude or downplay, to get me to vote for him over Hillary, assuming Hillary runs and defends the GWOT status quo.
Three year old accidentally shoots himself in the head with an unattended hangun. The boy died.