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  • Blog Noir: "Who You Gonna Believe?"

    Adam Serwer has come out of his DC igloo just long enough to post this quick gem You have two choices. National Journal Desk Jockey Stuart Taylor Jr.: The Holder-Obama policy of promptly reading terrorist suspects their Miranda rights comes close to guaranteeing that no timely intelligence will ever be extracted from any of them.…

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  • No Serious Injuries in DC Metro Car Derailment

    A Red Line DC Metro train derailed earlier today. Thankfully, no one was seriously injured The first two cars of a Metro Red Line train derailed on Friday at 10:13 a.m. as it was leaving the Farragut North station. Three minor injuries were reported among 345 passengers. The station itself and roads around it were…

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  • Valentine's Day By the Numbers

    So here’s what drives me nuts about Hollywood, what sticks in my craw, frustrates me to no end, makes me want to swear off the multiplex after decades of devoted movie junkie-dom, throwing down my hard-earned, recessionally downsized cash at the box office: Movies like Valentine’s Day. Valentine’s Day is the worst kind of cynically…

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  • The Ladies Clap Back at Dodge Charger Super Bowl Ad

    Here’s the Dodge Charger Super Bowl ad And here’s a spoof pwn’ing it

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  • Muslim Group Issues Fatwa on Full-Body Scanners

    Peeped this over on Slate. The Fiqh Council of North America has issued a fatwa on TSA’s full body scanners. The scanners, which have been promoted as a way of catching would-be bombers like Umar Abdulmutallab, have also been criticized as too invasive. The Transportation Security Administration claims the images they produce are more “chalk…

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  • CA Shop Owners Say Border Patrol Scaring Away Customers

    Customer frisking is not helping small business owners near the border between California and Mexico and they want it to stop. Store owners at Alipaz Plaza at Del Obispo and Alipaz streets told Mayor Lon Uso during his Mayor’s Walk this week that they want the city to ask the Border Patrol to stop going…

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  • Read/React: President Still Suffering from "Let's Hug It Out" Syndrome

    The White House scored a victory after a threat to make recess appointments caused Senate Republicans to confirm 29 people. According to Ezra Klein, the administration celebrated the victory by bungling it At this point in his presidency, George W. Bush had made 10 recess appointments. Over the course of his presidency, he would make…

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  • Check It Out: Should the Bush Administration Take the Blame For 9/11?

    Over on The Plum Line, Greg Sargent offers an interesting question If, by your own lights, the Bush/Cheney administration’s record on national security should be judged by the fact that there were no massive terror attacks after 9/11, why shouldn’t it also be judged by the fact that 3,000 Americans were killed on your watch…

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  • Help! We Need Shovels!

    Scooped this from FedBlog over on Government Executive Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, who also sits on the House Oversight and Government Reform Federal Workforce subcommittee, is asking for it. I think she’s right to do so. The federal government’s operations are directly impinged by the storm, and DC’s ability to manage it, whether that means…

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  • Do Over! Obama to Help Pick Site for Terrorism Trial

    The idea of trying 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in New York City has gone over like a lead balloon and now the White House is stepping in to help pick an alternate trial site Obama initially had asked Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. to choose the site of the trial in an effort to…

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