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The Attorney-Client Two Step The Attorney-Client Two Step

Vice President Dick Cheney's Chief of Staff David Addington has been referred to as "Dick Cheney's Dick Cheney" for the enormous influence he wields in the Office of the Vice Pres...

Jun 26, 2008 / Chris Hayes

Truest Thing I’ve Read in A While Truest Thing I’ve Read in A While

Via Barry Ritholtz: Nothing has been a more reliable indicator for an upcoming recession as the price of Oil. Every major bear market, every major economic decline has been prece...

Jun 26, 2008 / Chris Hayes

Neocons Blast Rice Over North Korea, Iran Neocons Blast Rice Over North Korea, Iran

Condoleezza Rice is under heavy attack from the neoconservatives for talking turkey with the remaining two members of the Axis of Evil. First, on North Korea, the 'cons are apopl...

Jun 26, 2008 / Bob Dreyfuss

New Name New Name

So we've changed the name, as you can probably tell. Why? Well, though we got to the J Street name first, there's the other J Street, which has a big enough profile to create conf...

Jun 26, 2008 / Chris Hayes

Sign on for the Bill of Rights Sign on for the Bill of Rights

After the Patriot Act became law, the Bill of Rights Defense Committee (BORDC) began a national campaign to get cities, counties and states to stand up for the Constitution. Than...

Jun 26, 2008 / John Nichols

Feingold, Dodd Take Steps to Filibuster FISA Feingold, Dodd Take Steps to Filibuster FISA

U.S. Senators Russ Feingold, D-Wisconsin, and Chris Dodd, D-Connecticut, will take steps to filibuster a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) reform proposal that provides...

Jun 25, 2008 / John Nichols

A New Solidarity A New Solidarity

On June 22, international opposition to a US-proposed missile defense system based in the Czech Republic and Poland ratcheted up as thousands of people around the world participat...

Jun 24, 2008 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

The DSM-V and Kenneth Zucker The DSM-V and Kenneth Zucker

In May, the American Psychiatric Association announced the makeup of the team responsible for revising the fifth (and latest) edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of ...

Jun 24, 2008 / Peter Rothberg

Washington Post Watch Washington Post Watch

Two days in a row! After giving some kudos yesterday, (tip of hat!), today, more in sorrow than in anger, we give a slow, mournful wag of the finger to Richard Cohen for this ab...

Jun 24, 2008 / Chris Hayes

Larry Johnson and the New Smear Machine Larry Johnson and the New Smear Machine

During the whole Valerie Plame imbroglio, former CIA agent Larry Johnson emerged as a netroots hero for loudly sticking up for Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame, and articulating, in n...

Jun 24, 2008 / Chris Hayes

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