From ABC News: Asked by Tapper how Obama could be so sure that certain controversial domestic anti-terrorism policies instituted by the Bush administration were not instrumental to the protection of U.S. citizens, Obama said that he did not necessarily oppose all the efforts, but “it is my firm belief that we can track terrorists, we [...]

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It’s got to say something about the hypersensitivity of the contemporary American right that Iron Man—Iron Man fer chrissakes—can be cast as a piece of anti-American leftie propaganda. For those unfamiliar with the plot—which nobody should be, because the movie is awesome and ought to be viewed immediately—let me sum up without, I hope, spoiling [...]

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Hey, Matt? I’m looking back over what Noah Pollak has written about Samantha Power, and I’m just not seeing anything that can reasonably be interpreted as a claim that Power is an anti-Semite or “tainted by Jew hatred” or anything else like that. All I’m seeing is an argument that Power has some terrible ideas [...]

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