The Red White and Blue Pill
NSA Says It Can’t Search Its Own Emails
“It’s just baffling,” says Mark Caramanica of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. “This is an agency that’s charged with monitoring millions of communications globally and they can’t even track their own internal communications in response to a FOIA request.”
They wouldn’t be lying would they?
Racists Love Ron and Rand Paul for Some Reason
But his son and progeny Rand Paul also has a close aide who is a huge racist, reports Alana Goodman. Jack Hunter, author, with Rand Paul, of The Tea Party Goes to Washington, is not just kinda bigoted in an uncomfortable, old-guy sort of way. He’s a serious neo-Confederate.
Why does this keep happening?
Here’s Exactly Who to Blame in Congress for Authorizing Government Spying
Nice itemized list of who voted for the patriot act and its extensions and expansions.
Intro to the Structure of Lies in Conservative Jurisprudence
Scalia wasn’t just being hypocritical. He was, quite blatantly, lying. If he actually believed what he claimed to believe in Windsor, then he never would have joined the decision to strike down the Voting Rights Act in Holder. To the contrary, he would have denounced John Roberts’ opinion with venomous glee. To absolutely no one’s surprise, he did not. Because everybody knows he was lying in his Windsor dissent. Everybody knows he’s been lying for decades.
The whole five part series is worth a read. The conservative movement is basically founded on this kind of BS.
members of the Muslim Brotherhood are defined by certain beliefs. They reject pluralism, secular democracy and, to some degree, modernity. When you elect fanatics, they continue, you have not advanced democracy. You have empowered people who are going to wind up subverting democracy. The important thing is to get people like that out of power, even if it takes a coup.
Replace Muslim Brotherhood with Conservative Movement and it is oddly accurate.
Edward Snowden and asylum: He is a terrible candidate.
On the merits, Snowden’s claim for asylum would not count for much in any country. Applicants for asylum typically must prove they are the victims of persecution on account of their race, ethnicity, religion, or membership in a social or political group. Frequently, these are political dissidents who are fleeing government oppression, or members of the wrong group in a civil war or ethnic conflict. They have been tortured, their families have been massacred. Snowden could be regarded as a political dissenter, but the United States is attempting to arrest him not because he holds dissenting views, but because he violated the law by disclosing information that he had sworn to keep secret. All countries have such laws; they could hardly grant asylum to an American for committing acts that they themselves would regard as crimes if committed by their own nationals.
Well written and fair article.
James Clapper is still lying to America
Clapper says, “My response was clearly erroneous — for which I apologize,” and added that “mistakes will happen, and when I make one, I correct it.”
And by that I’ll assume he means “When I get caught lying, I will feign misunderstanding”
Snowden thought leakers should be ‘shot’
Snowden’s online history shows him to be a bit of a typical uninformed yet condescending right winger.
War on coal: A pretty good idea.
the only way to consider new coal-fired plants a remotely plausible undertaking is to completely ignore the social costs of burning the coal. By the same token, simply throwing all my garbage into my neighbor’s back yard could look like a cheap and appealing alternative to proper trash disposal if I were allowed to completely ignore the costs to my neighbor.
Getting rid of direct subsidies and then attacking indirect subsides is all that is need to make wind and solar competitive.