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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Obama contemplates Executive Order for detention without charges — (updated below) — When Obama first unveiled his “preventive detention” policy, many defenders praised him (and claimed he was different than Bush) because of his vow that — as he put it — “my Administration will work …
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Washington Post:
White House Drafts Executive Order to Allow Indefinite Detention of Terror Suspects — The Obama administration, fearing a battle with Congress that could stall plans to close Guantanamo, has drafted an executive order that would reassert presidential authority to incarcerate terrorism suspects indefinitely …
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Big Tent Democrat / TalkLeft:
Obama Considering Unconstitutional Imposition Of Preventive Detention Policy — (See also Prof. Darren Hutchinson.) Glenn Greenwald: … (Emphasis supplied.) Outside of a theater of war, the President has no such Constitutional authority as the Supreme Court has ruled repeatedly in the last decade.
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Stan Collender / Capital Gains and Games blogs: Climate Vote Shows White House Still Really Knows How To Work The Hill
Darren Hutchinson / DISSENTING JUSTICE:
Indefinite Detention By Executive Order: Another Looming Disapp …
Indefinite Detention By Executive Order: Another Looming Disapp …
Jonathan Adler / The Volokh Conspiracy:
The End of Transparency (Before It Ever Began): Earlier this week …
The End of Transparency (Before It Ever Began): Earlier this week …
Silla Brush / The Hill:
Executive order might keep Gitmo inmates indefinitely
Executive order might keep Gitmo inmates indefinitely
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Vinod Sreeharsha / New York Times:
Argentine Man Is Said to Be Source of Sanford E-Mail — BUENOS AIRES — The mystery of who revealed Gov. Mark Sanford's e-mail messages may finally be solved. A business associate of Mr. Sanford's Argentine mistress said Friday that private messages between the two lovers had been sent anonymously …
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Orange County Register:
Mark Steyn: Jackson, Sanford and weirdness — Big government more or less guarantees rule by creeps and misfits. — Recommend — In a lousy week, Mark Sanford had one stroke of luck: Michael Jackson chose the day after the governor's news conference to moonwalk into eternity …
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Michelle Malkin:
The 8 cap-and-tax Republicans...and the 44 Democrats who voted no — Introducing the GOP's Cap-And-Tax 8... I listed them earlier tonight, but am breaking out a separate post to spotlight them again. — The 8 cap-and-tax Republican turncoats again are: — Bono Mack (CA) (202) 225-5330
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
ELITE EIGHT.... House Republicans wanted to put up a united front against the American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES), but eight GOP lawmakers — Reps. Mary Bono Mack (Calif.), Mike Castle (Del.), Mark Kirk (Ill.), Leonard Lance (N.J.), Frank LoBiondo (N.J.), John McHugh (N.Y.), Dave Reichert …
David Freddoso / Washington Examiner:
On the House floor — By all appearances, the House is about to vote on a very long bill of which it has no completed official copy. — Texas Republican Reps. Joe Barton and Louie Gohmert have just asked the chair whether there exists a complete, updated copy of the Waxman-Markey carbon-cap bill.
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
THIS WEEK IN GOD.... First up from the God Machine this week is the resolution of a recent controversy involving the late Jerry Falwell's college in Virginia, which no longer wanted to allow its students to organize an official Democratic student group on campus.
Alexis Stevens / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Naked ex-mayor arrested at campsite — Gainesville's Musselwhite denies causing earlier trouble — A former mayor found sitting naked and holding a beer at a Rabun County campsite told police he wasn't the same naked man seen walking around earlier. — Mark Musselwhite, 43 …
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John M. Broder / New York Times:
House Passes Bill to Address Threat of Climate Change — WASHINGTON — Overcoming deep divisions within its Democratic majority, the House passed legislation on Friday intended to address the threat of global warming and transform the way the United States produces and uses energy.
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Chris Frates / The Politico:
Baucus ups pressure on health groups — The Senate Finance Committee is pressuring hospitals and insurers to follow the lead of the pharmaceutical industry and pony up to help pay for health reform, industry insiders say. — With the Democrats' high-stakes gambit to overhaul …
Michael Yon:
The Road to Hell: Part II — 27 June 2009 — With so many contractors, journalists, and even tourists floating around Afghanistan, some are bound to be kidnapped. The recent escape by David Rohde provides a happy conclusion, though these things often end up with a bullet in the head, or a head sawed off for all to see.
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Lawrence M. Krauss / Wall Street Journal:
God and Science Don't Mix — A scientist can be a believer. But professionally, at least, he can't act like one. — Printer — Friendly — My practice as a scientist is atheistic. That is to say, when I set up an experiment I assume that no god, angel or devil is going to interfere …