Liddy and all his sexist predecessors are actually claiming, against millennia of evidence to the contrary, that women can’t be trusted in any position of responsibility because for a few days every month, the PMS makes them so mean and irrational that they forget all their knowledge, all their experience, and make decisions based solely on rage. And that it’s only a matter of time before this breakdown of mental discipline leads to unthinkable disaster.

First President Obama said he would agree to the release of 21 photos of abuse of prisoner abuse by U.S. military personnel (and 23 additional photos “identified as responsive”), as ordered by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in a suit by the ACLU for release of the photos. Then Obama changed his mind, and on Thursday, went to back to the Circuit Court and asked it, according to the Washington

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Via Atrios and Adam Serwer at the American Prospect, Stuart Taylor, Jr., of the oh-so-respected National Journal has decided to delve into Sonia Sotomayor’s undergraduate student days in hopes of derailing her Supreme Court nomination.

One part of the public private investment program, the legacy loan program, is on its last legs and for good reason: public outrage brought imposition of controls, and banks hate that.

If you want to gin up ever more ridiculous and contrived controversies over the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor, the folks at Politico can always count on people like Lanny Davis and Chris Lehane to say something completely stupid.

Economists missed an $8 trillion housing bubble. But now they can do the right thing by supporting a third stimulus.

Well, you know what they say about stopped clocks.

HR 848, cynically misnamed “Performance Rights” bill sponsored by John Conyers will not benefit most artists. It will legalize payola, suppress creativity, create more pressure among broadcasters to consolidate. And once the new toll booth is planted in broadcast radio it won’t be long before it is deployed elsewhere…

There’s a number of impressions I get from the DOD “report” on the number of Gitmo detainees who have joined terrorists groups, including al Qaeda, since being released. First, while it appears to be what ABC billed it as–the report showing 14% of the people freed from Gitmo purportedly returning to the fight, the one that was used to scare the Senate into refuse funding for Gitmo–it looks fairly laughable.