May 2013
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President Obama on IRS Report
“I have now had the opportunity to review the Treasury Department watchdog’s report on its investigation of IRS personnel who improperly targeted conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status. And the report’s findings are intolerable and inexcusable. The federal government must conduct itself in a way that’s worthy of the public’s trust, and that’s especially true for the IRS. The...
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Why Democrats Don't Trust Andrew Cuomo
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
April 2013
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Bill Clinton: Jason Collins Took Important Step...
Statement by President Bill Clinton on Jason Collins
“I have known Jason Collins since he was Chelsea’s classmate and friend at Stanford. Jason’s announcement today is an important moment for professional sports and in the history of the LGBT community. It is also the straightforward statement of a good man who wants no more than what so many of us seek: to be able to be who we...
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“President Bush set the bar so low, many influential political analysts have...”
– My new Reuters article explains the legal reasons why the Boston suspect probably cannot be charged as an enemy combatant, and the legal dilemmas ahead.
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54/100 + 90% - NRA = 0
— Ari Melber (@AriMelber) April 17, 2013
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“When faced with a hard question, we often answer an easier one instead, usually...”
– Dan Kahneman (from “Thinking, Fast and Slow”)
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March 2013
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“It’s hard to predict the future, but 81% of Americans under 30 now back...”
– Today, the Supreme Court completes its second day of arguments on gay marriage — an issue that has been settled for younger Americans, and for the future…
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“The White House wanted it both ways – pretend drones are a “secret”...”
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From my new Reuters column on the growing alliance against government secrecy — teeing off the unusual rejection of the CIA’s defense of drone secrecy on Friday, from the second highest court in the nation.
http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2013/03/17/prying-open-drone-secrets/
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“It is the ultimate ‘Identity Politics’ if you can *only* see...”
– On Sen. Portman changing his gay marriage position, from Ari Melber
via The Last Word
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Appeals Court Rejects CIA Argument on Drone...
A big and unexpected partial victory for the ACLU’s case against the CIA on drone secrecy. The Court ruled:
In this case, the CIA asked the courts to stretch [a secrecy] doctrine too far — to give their imprimatur to a fiction of deniability that no reasonable person would regard as plausible. “There comes a point where … Court[s] should not be ignorant as judges of what [they]...
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Digg Blog: We're Building A Reader →
Good!
rethinkdigg:
Like many of you, we were dismayed to learn that Google will be shutting down its much-loved, if under-appreciated, Google Reader on July 1st. Through its many incarnations, Google Reader has remained a solid and reliable tool for those who want to ensure they are getting the best from their…
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“Now over 12,000 news articles about the sequester cite the cancellation of White...”
– And reporters were all over the ‘tour’ story in today’s White House press briefing.
[Ari Melber via Google News.]
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“Some protest that “privileged minorities” are benefiting from affirmative action...”
– From my new article on affirmative action, which the Supreme Court may invalidate this term.
http://thegrio.com/2013/03/12/what-the-new-york-times-gets-wrong-about-affirmative-action/
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“The Washington Post:
“Woodward first spouted off in The Post, then...”
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Can’t make it up. From The Post story about their reporter. http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/woodward-vs-white-house-washington-at-its-weirdest/2013/02/28/d3f707fc-81ed-11e2-8074-b26a871b165a_story.html
February 2013
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“The Voting Rights Act exists because states were innovating voter discrimination...”
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Jay-Z: Keeping It Real is About The Details
“I know the phrase keeping it real has been killed to the point where it doesn’t even mean anything anymore in rap but to me it’s essential. The realness comes from how an MC shapes whatever their experience is into a rhyme. It’s the logic in the lyrics that follow, the emotional truth that supports it, the human motivations that the MC fills in, and the commitment to...
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$50 Million in Diamonds Stolen by Thieves Dressed... →
This is adapted from “The Town,” right?
In a meticulously planned raid that took barely five minutes to execute, armed men disguised as police officers drove onto the tarmac at the international airport in Brussels and stole diamonds worth around $50 million as they were being loaded onto a plane bound for Switzerland.
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Ronald Dworkin, Legal Philosopher, Dies at 81 →
Dworkin was a tremendous and inspirational thinker. I saw him give a talk a while back in New York, with characteristic humor and erudition. As an aside, he correctly predicted the impending health care ruling, which many other legal commentators got wrong.
From the NY Times: Professor Dworkin, a public intellectual with liberal views who taught at New York University and University College,...
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“Sometimes the Internet is like a book club where no one read the book.”
– Ari Melber 2/11/13
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“I could not be attracted to someone if they made work that I found absurd.”
– Lena Dunham on the link between attraction and respectable art.
