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The Dangerous Imperial Powers of the Vice President: A Followup

This diary is meant as a followup to a dKos diary by MaskedMarauder on 11/8's press gaggle, as well as a followup to a blog I posted earlier in the week on Vice Presidents.  Let me start by asking the question:  Is VP Cheney an Officer of the President, or an Officer of Congress?

CEO COM LINK

You don't hear much about this, but the Department of Homeland Security, in conjunction with the Business Roundtable Security Task Force, has established a secure telecom network for CEOs to communicate together and directly with the federal government in the event of a threat or crisis situation. Its called CEO COM LINK (*.pdf)

Sound the Call

"The only sin greater than waging war,
is waging it ineffectively."

Or so my Grandfather, a veteran of two world wars, used to say. Pragmatism. For his generation, the one in between the Gilded and the Greatest, for them pragmatism was all the rage. This in between generation, the ones fighting in WWI and leading in WWII, they weren't idealistic, anything but.

Top 10 Responses to Social Security Reform

Courtesy of Amendment Nine...

Ah, mid-winter... The big inaugural prelude. The goal now is to make it look like Bush's second term was a mandate for social security reform. When someone asks you what you think about the president's plan, here are few ways to re-center the debate:

A Quiz on War on Terror and Torture

The following is a thought-exercise meant to provoke discussion about torture.  Interested in your thoughts...

Terrorist A is caught, there is no doubt as to his terrorist ties, and he has evidence on him inidicating an attack is coming. Terrorist Z, apprehended in London, is detained by British authorities. On him is a rather detailed plan describing a particular nuclear suitcase bomb known to have been stolen from Russia, that it will be handled by Terrorist A and others, and that it is set to go off in the next 24 hours. British authorities give this information over immediately to American authorities. All information is confirmed and authenticated by other intel agencies. Those US agents detaining Terrorist A read the information, and quickly realize what they are up against.

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