- A previously secret
Justice Department memo justifying the drone assassination of
U.S. citizen Anwar Al-Awlaki
was released today by a federal appeals court. The document
argues that neither the law nor the Constitution prevented the
president from ordering the killing. Its author, David Barron,
recently won confirmation as a federal judge. Hmmm…Wonder whether
he would have released the memo… - Fresh from claiming she and Bill were “dead broke” when they
left the White House, Hillary Clinton
now boasts that she pays taxes “unlike a lot of people who are
truly well off.” If she likes it so much, she can pay mine,
too. - Despite trimming the Environmental Protection Agency’s claims
of authority just a tad, the Supreme Court largely
let stand the EPA’s efforts to regulate the emission of
“greenhouse gases.” So watch that spicy food. - Syria’s government claims it has
surrendered the last of its chemical weapons. Uh huh. - An island on Titan, a moon of Saturn,
mysteriously disappeared over the course of just a few days.
Astronomers say they hope J. J. Abrams has nothing to do with the
explanation. - The
odd fate of former IRS official Lois Lerner’s hard drive, which
reportedly crashed and ate two years worth of email, has taken on a
life of its own in the investigation of the tax agency’s treatment
of small-government groups.
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