Wa Po Online Catfight Moves to Print
Krauthammer's skin seems a little thin these days. He's now called Froomkin out by name on the op-ed page. Must be fun around the water cooler.
I don't think this is the end of this issue, somehow...
Week of May 10, 2009 - May 16, 2009
The Next Hand Out
The insurance industry. Don't these groups have fiduciary obligations to be prudent? And what strings are attached?
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Cut Liz Some Slack
Sure, Liz Cheney is deserving of some ridicule. But she's no fool. If she and her other republican cohorts don't keep up the faux outrage, her father is looking at a war crimes indictment. He's a long way from out of the woods, and it's her family. If it was my father, I'd be fighting like hell. If the SERE argument is the best she has, so what? I can be critical of her for many things, but sticking up for her old man is not one of them--however odious I personally find him.
That said, the mother ship gets to the point in the last line--namely, she has no business being on television, for the simple reason that most daughters are not going to admit that their parents are war criminals, sadists, or in general horrible human beings. She cannot be considered an objective source of information of this issue by any stretch, nor was she in a position to know what actually occurred by virtue of her government employment. In short, there's nothing newsworthy about her point of view whatsoever.
A Case I Hope This Supreme Court Never Sees
A Wisconsin appellate court has ruled that, under the Fourth Amendment, the police do not need a warrant to attach a GPS receiver to a person's car, and may track anyone--whether they are a suspect or not. If Wisconsin's Fourth Amendment is read coextensively with the one in the US Constitution, then the defense may well take it all the way to the supreme court. The way this court's constituted, that's probably not a good thing.
(Nobody could possibly predict that this kind of authority could be abused...).
