Julian Assange says he’s devised a “poison-pill” document dump of ultra-damaging material to be released in the event of his arrest or killing.
Virginia Thomas: It was “probably a mistake” for me to call Anita Hill.
Cut off by PayPal, Wikileaks reroutes contributions through other intermediaries.
The time has come for national media to begin asking Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R) if he condones what Tom Emmer — the Republican nominee to replace Pawlenty — is doing in dragging out the election recount even though he has no chance of winning.
If Pawlenty doesn’t condone it, then what is he as the state’s top Republican doing to put an end to this ploy, the effect of which will be to keep Pawlenty in office beyond the end of his term?
Those questions virtually answer themselves. But this guy wants to be President. Let’s get him on the record.
Tea Party Nation to send letter to Sarah Palin imploring her to run for RNC chairman.
A thoughtful essay on Julian Assange and Wikileaks.
Let’s say that the Wikileaks cables hadn’t been State Department cables but rather the final tracks of Lady Gaga’s next album or perhaps each episode of next season’s Mad Men? How long do you think they would have stayed online?
With the Democrats’ Senate Majority now dramatically reduced and the seats up for grabs in 2012 looking good for the Republicans, now is a propitious time to revisit the question of reforming the filibuster since it’s much less clear whose minority oxe would be gored. In a sense perhaps it makes no sense for the Dems to entertain reform, given how the Republicans dealt with things in 2006-2010 and given the fact that it’s now much more likely for them to get gored. But for the sake of civics if nothing else, let’s entertain the question. Because I think it’s much less of an all or nothing exercise than most imagine.
Here’s the thing that people tend not to realize about the modern filibuster: it places all the onus on the majority and almost literally none on the minority, thus creating a massive incentive for endless filibusters. Let me explain.
How many Senators do you need to get on the floor to break a filibuster? 60.
How many do you need on the floor to sustain one? 1.
This is what people tend not to realize when they ask why the Majority Leader isn’t ordering them to get out the cots and make people stay up all night. It’s just too easy to sustain a filibuster for that to make any sense. Read More
One of the new and boffo-est of the Tea Party governors is Paul LePage of Maine. Needless to say a dire hard guy for the constitution. But not one who seems to have much of a clue about what it says.
LePage apparently just found out on his recent trip to Washington that 35 states can veto any federal law.
From the Kennebec Journal …
“I am going to be sitting with our attorney general and ask him to join the (health care reform) lawsuit against the federal government,” he said, adding he just learned that if 35 states join the suit, the law “dies, automatically.” Twenty states so far have joined the suit, filed in federal court in Florida, to repeal the provision in health care reform law that requires individuals to purchase health insurance.