What Is Wrong With You?!?  —  The difference between the far right wing and the far left wing: the far right will do anything — anything — so long as the ends justifies the means.  The far left folks have ethical boundaries that they try very hard not to cross: things like attacking …

Uh, About that "Leak" That Burned Our al Qaeda Intel  —  I know what the NY Sun and Washington Post are saying about a major source of intel being burned by a leak, but it just isn't so.  Rita Katz and the SITE Institute do a great job, but attributing the interception of this video to them is just false.

Supreme Court Rejects CIA Kidnapping Case  —  Khaled el-Masri, (also spelled al-Masri) the 42 year old German shoe salesman and father of five who was plucked off a street in Macedonia while on holiday, beaten and flown to a secret CIA prison in Afghanistan where he was held for 5 months until …

Bartlett Unleashed: On Flip-Flops, a "Dud" and the Guy With the Funny Name  —  Dan Bartlett, formerly one of the closest advisers to President Bush, has been offering a tough analysis of the GOP field.  (White House Photo Office).  —  One of President Bush's closest advisers …

Clinton Unveils Her Retirement Savings Plan  —  Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York unveiled the second biggest domestic policy idea of her Democratic presidential campaign today, proposing to spend $20 billion to $25 billion a year to create 401(k)-style retirement accounts for all Americans …

Diet and Fat: A Severe Case of Mistaken Consensus  —  In 1988, the surgeon general, C. Everett Koop, proclaimed ice cream to a be public-health menace right up there with cigarettes.  Alluding to his office's famous 1964 report on the perils of smoking, Dr. Koop announced that the American diet …

Matthews on Matthews  —  On today's "Morning Joe," Joe Scarborough asked Chris Matthews if Republican candidates would try to get a "cheap applause line" tonight by pointing to his recent controversial comments.  —  Said Matthews:  —  I've been thinking about that....It's not my stage tonight.

As Much News As They Can, While Still Making Money  —  Atrios writes: … But armored car heists are interesting, the sort of story on which a bored channel-flipper may let his remote rest.  And that, after all, is CNN's highest priority: Not informing its viewers, but capturing a maximum share of television's total viewers.

DoJ Vote Chief Argues Voter ID Laws Discriminate against Whites  —  When Justice Department lawyers and analysts found in 2005 that a Georgia law requiring voters to have photo ID would disproportionately discriminate against African-Americans, they were overruled by John Tanner …

Anti-War Movement Stuck in a Quagmire  —  Over the summer, a coalition of anti-war activists racked up plenty of statistics in their drive to end the occupation of Iraq.  They held 1,100 press events, by their count, planted more than 30,000 yard signs, posted 265 videos on YouTube …

Phony 'Satirical' Anti-Muslim Posters Circulated at GWU  —  At George Washington University, another outrageous action by the Saudi-funded radical Islamic front group calling itself the Muslim Student Association, as they circulate flyers purporting to be from a conservative campus group …

Obama, Edwards, Richardson, Biden out of state primary  —  Four of the leading Democratic presidential nominees have removed their names from the Jan. 15 Michigan presidential primary.  —  U.S. Sen. Barack Obama and former Sen. John Edwards both earlier today filed paperwork …

Greenwald takes a closer look at FISA revisions  —  What FISA capitulations are Democrats planning next?  —  An article in this morning's NYT reports what many have long been expecting — that Congressional Democrats are ready to capitulate to the White House again on warrantless eavesdropping …

My Own Private Mid-20th Cent.  Totalitarianism  —  Not long ago, New York Times columnist Roger Cohen unveiled a self-pitying lament about the hard-shake 'neocons' have gotten over the Iraq War and, more pointedly, how the collapse of Iraq has left little room for "liberal interventionists …