The Grey Lady tells us of yet another report from the Justice Dept. Inspector General, concerning extensive “disagreements” between the FBI and the CIA concerning the latter’s blatantly illegal, unAmerican, morally reprehensible, so-bad-they-helped-al-Qaeda-recruit terrorists, counterproductive and absolutely evil troublesome practices with respect to “harsh” interrogation of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay and elsewhere. Among the revelations include assisting Chinese interrogators in tormenting Uighur prisoners (prisoners later found to constitute absolutely no threat to this country, and indeed, some of which prisoners we found new homes for in Albania) and a female detainee bending back a detainee’s thumb and grabbing his testicles....

Being a member of the Kennedy family has always seemed to simultaneously wed political triumph with personal tragedy; today, the tragedy part seems to be back, with the announcement that Sen. Edward M. “Teddy” Kennedy (D-MA), the last survivor of his brothers, was diagnosed with a likely terminal form of brain cancer following his recent seizure. We wish the best to Sen. Kennedy and his family, and regardless of how one regards the political merits of his career or the mistakes he may have made in the course of his life, he has served the nation honorably for decades, and...

No, not by me. While this blog prides itself on its original interviews, there is still one blog that proves it can do it better, no matter what it might be. It truly is… the best blog(TM). To the great Fafblog (now proudly restored to our sidebar), we simply say, “we are not worthy.” From Fafnir’s interview with Hillary Clinton: FB: Now, back when your husband was president he cut nine million poor women and children off welfare. But now you’re the candidate of women and poor people and poor workin women. So did you approve of what your husband...

Could it be… Hillary Clinton, succumbing to the inevitable after her big win in West Virginia is almost immediately overshadowed by John Edwards’s long overdue endorsement of Barack Obama? No… the world’s no. 1 ranked tennis player Justine Henin of Belgium announced her retirement from the sport, the first woman to do so while holding the top rank. As to Senator Clinton’s ongoing efforts…

It seems fitting that Hillary Clinton will win West Virginia’s Democratic primary. West Virginia is a state whose major industry is extractive and destructive, to wit, coal mining and these days, often by strip mining. So, in its tradition, Hillary proceeded by simply discarding the Black and educated “overburden” of the Democratic party and going right for those valuable ores and nuggets: older, less educated, hard-working White Americans. Every time I think of that statement, I immediately think of the telegram sent to the Governor in Blazing Saddles: We, the White, God-fearing citizens of Rock Ridge wish to express our...

It seems that Missouri wants to live up to its state nickname, by proposing to pass a requirement that prospective voters not merely show identification, but actual proof of citizenship not only to vote, but to register to vote. Obviously, much publicity has surrounded the Supreme Court’s recent upholding of Indiana’s stringent photo identification law for voters, a rule which excluded a dozen nuns from voting there, but the war-to-make-sure-that-the-majority-will-never-prevails continues. The beauty of the current initiative in Missouri is that, unlike the usual photo-i.d. initiatives that seem almost designed to favor “hard working WHITE Americans” (thanks for the expression...

No, not from John Edwards, or from Al Gore. Lieutenant Worf now endorses Barack Obama. Q’a pla!

The one metric on which Senator Clinton did not have to resort to Enron accounting in order to count herself ahead, superdelegates, has finally fallen, as Sen. Obama has picked up enough superdelegates to be ahead in that category as well. The Grey Lady piece cited notes that Sen. Clinton “regrets” making her remarks about she being stronger among less-educated White voters. The cynical among us would say she regrets it because it didn’t work, and only accelerated a pre-existing trend among super-delegates to bolt for Obama. I will give her the benefit of the doubt, and say that in...

And so, Navy Capt. Allred, currently chief kangaroo judge of the GTMO-based proceeding to dispense kangaroo justice at the military commission “trial” of former OBL motor pool member (and occasional chauffeur) Salim Hamdan, has decided to exclude Air Force Brig. Gen. Thomas Hartmann from any further role in the prosecution, on the basis for Col. Morris “Moe” Davis’s earlier testimony about the unseemly political pressure placed upon Davis as prosecutor by Hartmann. We’re not at all sure what this means either, as it is not clear what Hartmann’s role as advisor to “convening authority” Susan Crawford (a/k/a “Dick Cheney’s handmaiden”)...

First, happy birthday to TD Dad. And now… on with the opera. It seems that after the Koran desecration incidents and the forcefeeding of hunger striking detainees, the operation of GTMO was not exactly the most popular thing we were doing, in the eyes of the Pakistani public and media. Hence, the decision to post former GTMO commander Gen. Jay Hood to the embassy in Islamabad met with a great deal of derision and resistance, and, amidst that, has now been withdrawn by the U.S. government. You will recall that after allegations of a Koran being flushed down a toilet...