The John Yoo interview was probably not Jon Stewart's greatest moment.

Can't win them all, but he still did better than the MSM. Jon's not a lawyer, which would have really helped during the interview and research for it..

Q: What kind of person would steal disaster relief money from hurricane victims?

A: "Cephalon ... is trying to shift patients from Provigil, also known as modafinil, to the very similar but slightly longer-acting Nuvigil, or armodafinil. Nuvigil has patent protection until 2024, although generic drug companies are already moving to challenge those patents.

"To get patients to shift, Cephalon has raised the wholesale price of Provigil to $13.60, from about $5.50 a pill five years ago, including a 29 percent increase in November." NY Times Published: January 6, 2010

Here's one.

I already commented in another thread, but since I have an invitation for this one, I'll repeat myself:

I can't believe that there has been no comments on political blogs (not on the ones that I frequent, anyway) about the judge's decision to allow [correction--the judge is *considering* allowing it] the murderer of abortion provider Dr. Tiller plead "voluntary manslaughter". Kansas law defines voluntary manslaughter as "an unreasonable but honest belief that circumstances existed that justified deadly force", and it is much less serious than first-degree murder (typically those convicted serve 5 years or less).

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100112/ap_on_re_us/us_abortion_shooting_trial

Anyone remember Red State Strike Farce's "Operation Leper" that was started a couple days after President Obama won in November of 2008?

Yeah, I didn't either.

Anyway, it was supposed to be a list of RINOs who had bad-mouthed or otherwise harmed Sarah Palin. After only 11 entries on Nov. 6, 2008, the list was ignored and forgotten.

But it's still active. And you can still add names to the list. And if the flood of entries added today is any indication, it isn't being moderated anymore.

Go take a look and add a few names of your own.

(Hat tip to Jon of Eschaton)

I always thought Jon Stewart whiffed when he had John Ashcroft on a couple of years ago. Ashcroft was pretty charming as well. Stewart more or less walked through that one too. Entertainment's one thing, but when you bring a controversial figure on, it's assumed you're going to at least give him something to chew on. Has Rachel Maddow had John Yoo on her show? I doubt she'd let him get away with much.

The John Yoo interview was probably not Jon Stewart's greatest moment.

When the court jester is seen as the only source of truth the nation is doomed.

Re Jon Stewart: he didn't hit him as hard as he has others, but c'mon, Jon is a comedian, not a journalist. And as Martin said above, he did better than the MSM.

I doubt Yoo would dare show up on Rachel's show.

OK, previous comment apparently got swallowed up in the ether, so let's try again:

Erik Erikson's "Operation Leper" (http://www.operationleper.com/), started in November of 2008 shortly after President Obama's election, is still up and running and, more importantly, apparently no longer being moderated (if today's flood of new entries is any indication, that is).

Go nominate a RINO of your own.

Happy to see an increase in the number of female ambassadors posted in the US. A very complex read. I'm not sure I would have drawn the conclusion that it was about the "Hilary effect". While it is major progress that females all over the world are occupying positions previously seen as "traditionally male" roles, I am hesitant to declare that Hilary's high profile is the dominating factor. My question is whether or not there is an increase in female ambassadors worldwide or simply in countries that have a political system that is accepting of women in leadership roles. Clinton's accomplishments and stature are considerable on the world stage and she no doubt deserves the accolades. This however smacks of lazy analysis...

Oh, sure, employers will opt for cheaper plans. That's why the 'cheaper' plan we just got costs $10K a year and pays 70% less per non PPO and there aren't any hospitals that take it in my community (instead of two in the prior plan).

The cadillac tax is not written well, get rid of it.

PS, Modafinil should be OTC. This stuff would save lives if applied instead of caffeine.

"What kind of person would steal disaster relief money from hurricane victims?"

Bush Republican.

* Iranian nuclear scientist killed: "An Iranian scientist was killed Tuesday by a remote-controlled bomb planted on a motorcycle parked outside his home, state news outlets reported." Wash Po, via Benen

Cui bono? I doubt it was in Ahmadinejad's interest to order the killing. OTOH... The fewer nuclear scientists they have, the less we and/or Israel have to worry abut them getting weapons grade any time soon.

exlibra, normally I like your contributions, but I found that offensive. A civilized country doesn't go around assassinating Iranian scientists because they don't like Iranian policy, they use diplomacy. Not to mention the scientist wasn't a nuclear physicist, he was working in high energy theory, i.e. particle physics. Specifically high energy physics dealing with dark matter, as can be seen from this SPIRES search; esoteric stuff far removed from designing nuclear weapons. This pisses me off.

* New (depressing) career advice for law students.

My wife went to law school from 2001-2003, changing careers in her early 40s. Guess what they don't tell you when you're deciding whether to go to law school? If you answered, "That no law firm will hire a neophyte lawyer in their early 40s" go to the head of the class.

But don't take out a loan to do it.

I've been trying to hammer this point here for months but basically as long as the Constitution gives the Senate the power to make its own rules, the filibuster is Constitutional. That means the blame for not reigning in the misuse of the filibuster lies with the Majority Leader. He could put a stop to the constant threats to filibuster by mustering his caucus and forcing the opposition to actually filibuster. If they knew they would have to look the American people in the eye while they read from the phone book for 24 hours, they might think twice about making good on their threats.

The capture of those terrorists in Iraq shows a real lack of resolve on the part of the Iraqi authorities. Instead of bringing those people in and charging them, they should have invaded Iraq.

"The John Yoo interview was probably not Jon Stewart's greatest moment"

Agree, and he has had Kissinger on with the same results. It is good to have an opponent or differing views on, but some people do not deserve any air time, and Kissinger is one, Yoo a close second, let Fox do those type of fascists. I have seen Stewart get technical, and very testy with other guests, I guess he can't slay them all. He may be the 'court jester' and just a comedian, but he is sharp as a tack, is into the political debunking for more then just the shtick...and I am certain he has a stable of sharp writers and researchers...Doomed? hell, Stewart was all the news back during the peak of the Bush 'era'...sad, but true. We are supposed to be beyond all that now...can't you tell?

The notion that Harry Reid could break GOP obstructionism by making them "really filibuster" is hogwash. The old style filibuster is harder on the majority than it is on the minority. All the minority has to do is suggest the lack of quorum, and if the majority cannot muster a quorum, end of business for the day.
And the idea that the GOP would be embarassed to filibuster and that they couldn't look the people in the eye -- where does anyone get the idea that they have that innate sense of shame that would be provoked. The filibuster, because it tends to portray a lone hero standing up against overwhelming odds, actually can build up the public image of the minority.

The notion is just one more instance of Dem wishful thinking and denial of the situation -- it is not true that a little more willpower is all that stops Dems from acheiving their legislative goals.

Re the point above about cold weather, climate change, and Fox, perhaps every person at Fox (or Fox viewers) should read this.

I am still waiting for one prominent scientist to come forward and explain how a few years of non increasingly warmer temperatures changes the underlying dynamic of our current geologically massive and, (from a geologic perspective), extraordinarily rapid climate forcing. (The forcing being an external impact upon the system, such as by volcanic aerosols, solar flareups, or changes to heat trapping gas [ ]'s, the latter of which will see both a lag of several decades or more between real cause and effect, along with an increasingly accelerating change to our baseline system stasis' such as glaciers, permafrosts, clathrates, underlying ocean currents, etc., which will in almost all instances further accelerate the changes forcing these in the first place, with ultimately wild effect upon both climate and ocean levels. At which point zealous ideologues (those not under water) will blame it all on "natural, cyclical, environmental trends.")

And still waiting for the Washington Post to finally answer the question as to what scientists it relied upon for its article suggesting precisely this.

There is a critical underlying presumption that is driving much of the ideologically based misinformation on climate change, along with much of the obduracy toward objective, non partisan, non political, and dispassionate assessments of the science of the issue: My open challenge to Freakonomics author Steven Levitt on the economics presumptions of this climate equation -- a debate this country needs to be having, and so far is also not having.

Per the NYT (yeah, yeah, yeah) the murdered Iranian physicist was associated with the Iranian opposition. If true, there's little doubt who did it.

The "Cadillac" tax may have theoretical advantages but here in the real world it will only piss the living shite out of voters. Bad, bad, bad idea. Tax us millionaires, we'll survive.

Fox Faux News isn't the only crowd that deliberately doesn't understand the difference between weather and climate. Such willful ignorance is just part of the greater obfuscation paid for by the fossil fuel interests to insert doubt wherever it can into the science of global climate change.

Fox News: Rallying The Stupid.

"Fox News: Rallying The Stupid."

Heaven knows, there's enough of them out there to rally.

I think part of the purpose of the Geoghegan article is to turn the standard arguments in favor of the filibuster on their head. Never having lived in a functioning unicameral system, most Americans are attached to the foolish notion of having an assembly of nobles guard them against the hoi polloi. As such, ending the filibuster would seem an attack on "minority rights."

In the Philly convention (at least, before they soured on the Senate and gave a bunch of its power to the President :) ), it was imagined that the Senate could perform its "checking" function on the unruly House simply by virtue of its construction, mode of election, and term of service. The second is gone of course, but 1 and 3 still stand, and would enable the Senate to do its job (yech) absent provisions that allow a small number of Senators to prevent a vote.

The Federal Reserve made so much money in 2009, it returned about $45 billion to the U.S. Treasury last year.

Really?!

Does that count the $185 billion the NY Fed crammed down taxpayers throats over AIG?
Does that count the real cost of any of its other inane off-balance-sheet recommendations approved by Congress at taxpayer expense?
Does that include a marked-to-market accounting of Mortgage Backed Securities on its balance sheet?
Does that include a marked-to-market accounting of anything other than specific items the Fed wanted marked-to-market?

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