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• A Few Key Passages From Bush's "Military Commissions Act of 2006"

  September 7, 2:15 PM ET

  | By Tim Dickinson

  With the important caveat that I'm not a lawyer, here's how I read the law Bush proposed yesterday: Geneva rights are not enforceable under U.S. law. RIGHT... | More »

• Torture, Immunity, and the Midterms

  September 7, 12:44 PM ET

  | By Tim Dickinson

  Everyone knew the President would drum up an uncomfortable you're-either-with-us or-you're-with-the-terrorists vote for Congressional Democrats before the No... | More »

• All The News That Fits ... Bye-Bye Blair, Bush Backs Black Sites

  September 7, 11:38 AM ET

  | By Tim Dickinson

  After seven members of his own party quit in protest, an increasingly unpopular Tony Blair announces he will retire within the year. Standing down? U.S. Generals ... | More »

• General Discontent

  September 7, 12:00 AM ET

  | By Tim Dickinson

  President Bush's proposal for kangaroo military tribunals is taking heavy fire from Pentagon brass: "I'm not aware of any situation in the world where there... | More »

• Get Out of Geneva Free Card

  September 7, 12:00 AM ET

  | By Tim Dickinson

  Reading through Bush's detention bill it seems to do two things with regards to the Geneva Conventions. A) Commit the U.S. to following Article 3 — except for t... | More »

• News Flash From the Future

  September 7, 12:00 AM ET

  | By Tim Dickinson

  One of the bloggers at the must read Balkinization imagines the tables turned and Al Qaeda using president Bush's "enhanced" questioning techniques. (via Andrew S... | More »

• John Mark Karr Is to Joe Wilson as the NRO Is to Mindless Dross

  September 6, 11:22 PM ET

  | By Tim Dickinson

  First it was the sting ray that robbed the world of Steve Irwin as a metaphor for Islamofacism. Now it's media slut and avowed pederast John Mark Karr as a stand ... | More »

• Not'Quaint' After All: Geneva Conventions Back

  September 6, 3:56 PM ET

  | By Tim Dickinson

  The Army's Field Manual has be revised to eliminate the use of dogs and stress techniques and water boarding. From now on the basic protections of the Geneva Conv... | More »

• The Course is the Course, Of Course Of Course

  September 6, 12:08 PM ET

  | By Tim Dickinson

  What a difference three weeks makes... Tony Snow yesterday: "The idea that somehow we're staying the course is just wrong. It is absolutely wrong." Tony Snow, ... | More »

• Pakistan: The Department of Clarifications

  September 6, 12:04 PM ET

  | By Tim Dickinson

  "Pakistan is committed to the war on terror, and of course we will go after any terrorist found to be operating here." — Making nice by the same Pakistani general wh... | More »

• Biden's Iraq Response: Too Little, Too Late

  September 5, 6:31 PM ET

  Now that support for the Iraq war and its chief architect Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld are at an all-time low, Sen. Joe Biden and the Democrats are finally tak... | More »

• Live Review: The Big Easy Lives at Merkin Concert Hall

  September 5, 2:40 PM ET

  | By David Fricke

  Pianist Henry Butler and clarinetist Dr. Michael White — two New Orleans musicians who lost so much a year ago to Hurricane Katrina, including their homes, instrumen... | More »

• All the News That Fits. . .

  September 5, 12:06 PM ET

  | By Tim Dickinson

  The GOP is quietly abandoning immigration reform as an election issue. They write letters: Senior Democrats outline a new plan for Iraq. The Iraqi Parliament has ... | More »

• Bush's Jewish Problem?

  September 5, 11:40 AM ET

  | By Tim Dickinson

  "You know what I'm gonna tell those Jews when I get to Israel, don't you Herman? I'm telling'em they're all going to hell." — Then Texas Gov... | More »