David Cole has a very interesting defense & critique of the Obama administration's record on national security, civil liberties, and counterterrorism. It's well worth reading the whole thing. He praises the administration for breaking with Dubya's worst flaunting of legal constraints on executive power while criticizing them on various issues of ( Read more... )

Yesterday I saw Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End with holyoutlaw and my anonymous housemate, and I have a couple of questions.

Was it just my imagination, or did the opening sequence equate pirates with terrorists and the British government of the Caribbean with the Bush administration? ("There will be no habeas corpus," etc ( Read more... )