Late afternoon on the West Coast. For those wondering, we'll be back in the college hoops coverage business starting tomorrow night as we prepare for the start of March Madness next week. This is an Open Thread....

“It will be a top priority of the Justice Department to hold accountable executives who have engaged in fraudulent activities.” -Justice Department spokesman Matthew A. Miller As opposed to the attitude towards investigating the abuses of the Bush Administration, it seems that the Obama Ad...

This seems a very good initiative: President Obama today signed an Executive Order creating the White House Council on Women and Girls. The mission of the Council will be to provide a coordinated federal response to the challenges confronted by women and girls and to ensure that all Cabinet and Cabi...

In his skewering of Howard Fineman, who has been getting blasted all over, the part I really liked was Jamison Foser's "Cramering" of Fineman, pulling out Fineman's past political pronouncements like this one in 2005: [I]n a roomful of well-connected Democrats the other night, I was struck by how gl...

In describing a view that is often excoriated as "anti-semitic," Glenn Greenwald writes: [T]here are powerful domestic political forces in the U.S. which enforce Israel-centric orthodoxies and make it politically impossible to question America's blind loyalty to Israel. . . . In the U.S., you can ad...

An interesting defense actually: The notion that President Obama has lurched to the left since his inauguration and is governing as an unreconstructed liberal is bunk. . . . [T]he Obama Justice Department backstopped the Bush Justice Department's assertion of the state secrets privilege to block law...

Not surprising: The U.S. Treasury Department has promised opponents of changes to U.S.-Cuba policy that are tucked into a giant spending bill that some of the most controversial provisions will result in little change. The Senate was expected to vote later Tuesday on a $410 billion spending bill tha...

Glenn Greenwald notes the irony of Fred Hiatt's WaPo lecturing anyone on the damage done to US diplomatic and human rights credibility. Hiatt writes: According to State's latest report on Egypt, issued Feb. 25, "the government's respect for human rights remained poor" during 2008 "and serious abuses...

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The obvious answer to my question is, of course he will, in 2012 (Dems will probably own it in 2010.) Ezra Klein seems to believe ownership of the economy is escapable for Obama: The nationalization conversation has, probably rightly, proceeded from the premise of what policy is most likely to work....