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Apparently not everyone liked the trailer for the new Trek.
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The reason I don’t care “California’s broke” is I know that means that the government of California is broke, not its citizens. ….
When a fellow you know comes up to you at the racetrack and says he’s lost all his money because his can’t-miss horse threw a shoe, and wants to borrow a few hundred so he can buy groceries to feed his children, you’re wise to at least consider that his kids might go hungry no matter what you do.
Obama to retain indefinite detention?
I think any such revolt [against Obama by Move On et al, if he continues Guantanamo and indefinite detention] will be essentially toothless and perfunctory, and that Obama’s administration will suffer no ill-effects from staying with a policy of detention that has kept the US safe since 911.
And this is because many of the “civil liberties” absolutists who sprung up in the wake of the Bush Administration’s attempts to navigate new challenges presented to traditional prisoner detention (given the nature of the enemy, and the difficulty in giving a concrete, corporeal outline to the “enemy”) were nothing more than political opportunists whose first and primary concern was regaining power.
Attacking Bush’s so-called civil liberties violations was but a means to an end.
Inevitable Withdrawal
My new piece up at Pajamas Media.