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The Obama administration has declassified and released opinions of the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) given in 2005 and earlier that analyze the legality of interrogation techniques authorized for use by the CIA. Those techniques were applied only when expressly permitted by the director, and are described in these opinions in detail, along […]

Some months ago, I noted on these pages the expected and coming “demise”–pronounced, of course, by the fashionistas on high–of that time-honored fashion article known as “the dress.” Almost a year later–in no small part because of Michelle Obama, I’d add–I am happy to report that this looming danger seems to have escaped us.

He was the voice, whose love both of his sport and his work was open and infectious. John Madden didn’t just make us understand football, he made us understand ourselves. The NFL and its television broadcasts will go on because institutions inevitably outlast the people who bring them to popularity and prominence.

Michele Bachmann represents the most Republican-friendly congressional district in Minnesota. John McCain carried the area by eight percentage points in 2008 — the largest spread in the state. Two years earlier Gov. Tim Pawlenty swamped DFLer Mike Hatch by nearly 20 points in the 6th Congressional District. The Cook Partisan Voting Index gives the GOP […]