Have a beer! It’s time for more Police State Follies!

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Von at Obsidian Wings on the arrest of Henry Louis Gates controversy: It would be nice — real nice — if our discussion of this incident embraced more than just race and included police tactics generally. Crowley had the power to toss Gates in jail because he didn’t like what Gates said. That just isn’t [...]

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Rachel Maddow interviewed Constitutional scholar Jonathan Turley last Friday on the still-breaking news that the Obama Administration has abandoned the “enemy combatant” designation. Sharp as ever, Maddow noticed that the right to place people in indefinite detention without charges that the Bush Administration claimed through the magical invocation of that designation was nonetheless being reserved [...]

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Maybe I’m impatient. Eight years of BushAdmin bullshit wore my patience to a nub, so that when the new regime takes over with a clear mandate for change, I am in the back seat, asking, “Are we there yet? Are we there yet? How about now? … Now? … Or now. Now? … Now now? [...]

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Click the image to go to the site where the cartoon is. For the reading.

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