I don’t want to be blase about potential threats. But I’m really not looking forward to the new “no ride” list for Amtrak, like the “no fly” list for airplanes.
The Supreme Court Justice recount is taking a lot longer than expected in Waukesha County, Wisconsin. The recount deadline has now been pushed back from May 9th to May 26th.
‘Bipartisan’ is the most tortured and ridiculously-used word in American politics. But a genuinely bipartisan group of eight members of the House of Representatives has sent a letter to President Obama calling on him to use the death of Osama bin Laden as a pivot to ramp down the US presence in Afghanistan.
Republicans — and particularly a series of former Bush administration officials — have been hunting around for an angle of attack on the commando raid on bin Laden headquarters in Abbottabad, Pakistan. The latest is that President Obama was wrong to have bin Laden killed. Instead, he should have captured him and then sent him to Gitmo or tortured him or done whatever to get more intelligence from him. That’s the argument notorious Bush administration lawyer John Yoo made last week.
But a new NBC news poll says 80% of Americans say killing bin Laden was the right decision. Only 11% disagree.
The precise instructions and rules of engagement of the OBL raid have not been made completely clear. It’s worth noting that the rules of engagement apparently made a nominal allowance for a bin Laden surrender, though those same rules of engagement made such an outcome all but impossible. In any case, the same leaks say that the President made clear the outcome he wanted and apparently got.
I’m not sure where it fits into the on-going campaign for war against Iran. But in the recent days a slew of President Ahmadinejad’s allies have been arrested on charges of sorcery.
The charges apparently stem from a deepening feud between Ahmadinejad and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Earlier we noted Sen. Schumer’s call for a train “no ride” list, like the flying “no fly” lists.
TPM Reader BT notes that this issue was actually anticipated several years ago by Ali G.
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For years Pastor Jim Moats had been telling his Newville, Pennsylvania congregation that he was a former Navy SEAL. So after the bin Laden raid the local paper, The Patriot-News, asked Moats for his perspective on the attack. But when he regaled them with his own history as a SEAL, replete with scenes lifted from Steven Seagal’s “Under Seige” and “GI Jane” his story started to unravel.
Texas teacher suspended for telling Muslim student that “I bet that you’re grieving” over Osama bin Laden’s death is no longer employed by that school.