Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 12
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To submit comments on Real ID
[Read the article: Our benevolent surveillance state]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]To submit comments on the Real ID regulation, go to
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Submitting comments on the Real ID rules
[Read the article: Our benevolent surveillance state]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Of course, my link didn't work.
To submit comments, you go to http://www.regulations.gov, and search for docket number DHS-2006-0030
You then click on the link in the search results, and can submit comments using a rather complex form system.
Or you can send snail mail marked with docket number DHS-2006-0030 to:
Homeland Security
Attn: NAC 1-12037
Washington, DC 20528
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Not in the print version
[Read the article: The right's explicit and candid rejection of "the rule of law"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It is worth noting that the Wall Street Journal didn't see fit to put this open call for dictatorship in their print edition or the standard opinion pages of their news web site -- it seems to only be in their "OPINIONJOURNAL FEDERATION" which appears to be somewhat distinct from the main sections of the Wall Street Journal.
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Incorporation papers
[Read the article: Who funds and runs the Politico?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It might be an interesting muckraking exercise to dig up the Politico's incorporation papers.
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Impeachment letter
[Read the article: Gonzales' yearlong effort to block Comey's testimony]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Looks like its time to write my congresswoman and ask for impeachment on this topic again.
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Getting routine journalism done
[Read the article: Blogs and the establishment media]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The real problem with blogs right now is that they're not able to cover the void that exists in local and regional political coverage. My local newspaper (the San Jose Mercury) essentially doesn't cover city hall, county officials, or state government. With their ongoing layoffs, they're not going to either.
Actually covering this stuff means having a few people doing it full-time -- something that isn't likely to come from blogs with their current funding model.
Somehow, we're going to need to create world where there is somehow funding available to see what local and regional officials are doing, and to then communicate that information the public.
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Statesman didn't publish
[Read the article: Larry Craig's bathroom behavior and the right wing -- then and now]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The really funny thing about all this is that unlike other Idaho publications, the Idaho Statesman didn't publish anything until after the guilty plea. See http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/a_statesmans_decisions.php for an explanation of the thinking which went into their decision to NOT publish.
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Throwing things into the water
[Read the article: The U.S. military inflicts more damage on its own credibility]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I don't know when crab season is in Iranian waters, but here in northern California, fishermen are tossing crab traps into the water at this time of year.
Even if Iranians were seen tossing objects into the water, it is entirely possible that this was ordinary fishing activity.
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RSS feed broken
[Read the article: McCain: Threatening to bomb sovereign countries is "naive"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm no longer able to read your articles in my RSS reader -- I get a message about javascript being required.
Is there any way you can fix this?
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State Secrets Doctrine
[Read the article: George Bush told the truth yesterday]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Glenn Greenwald wrote:
government officials are free to break the law in secret by claiming that national security concerns prevent courts from ruling on what they did
Isn't that exactly what the state secrets doctrine is, and isn't it something which has been upheld by the Supreme Court -- which, when the original case in which it was upheld turned out to be a situation where the government lied to cover up wrongdoing, and didn't have any actual need for secrecy, the Supreme Court refused to hear the appeal?
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Somerby -- Daily Howler
[Read the article: Book news and media campaign coverage]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Interesting how you're now on the same page as Bob Somerby, who was one of the earliest left-wing political bloggers (and who still doesn't have an RSS feed on his dailyhowler.com site)
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NBC is part of GE
[Read the article: The government, the media and Afghanistan]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If you think that NBC, part of GE, a major military contractor, is going to turn into some sort of left-wing cable channel, you're out of your mind.
If we want something like that, we need to put our pressure on a channel whose parent company doesn't have a large financial interest in the Forever War.