I think it's awfully nice of them to promise not to arrest sick people who are trying not to puke their guts out:

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration will not seek to arrest medical marijuana users and suppliers as long as they conform to state laws, under new policy guidelines to be sent to federal prosecutors Monday.

Two Justice Department officials described the new policy to The Associated Press, saying prosecutors will be told it is not a good use of their time to arrest people who use or provide medical marijuana in strict compliance with state laws.

The new policy is a significant departure from the Bush administration, which insisted it would continue to enforce federal anti-pot laws regardless of state codes.

Attorney General Eric Holder said in March that he wanted federal law enforcement officials to pursue those who violate both federal and state law, but it has not been clear how that goal would be put into practice.

The Seminal: McCain attacks ally once floated as his possible VP

GOPnot4me: John McCain's economic guru?

Wonk Room: This overpaid jackass failed to notice consumer purchasing trends, the rising price of oil, or the facts about climate change, but has the guts to demand that taxpayers bail him out.

The Washington Monthly: Obama's ideas are good enough to steal

MoJo Blog: The person who "knows more about energy than probably anyone else in the USA," drops down with some wisdom.

Hill's Country: Still made in the USA

The Agonist:

As we've noted before, internet radio is about to be destroyed by the decision of the Copyright Royalty Board to radically increase royalty fees for playing music over the internet.

The argument is simple - if FM stations don't have to pay, why should streaming ones?

If Democrats (insert your specific politician here) are smart, they will see this as an opportunity to radicalize young voters to their side. Remember - how a person votes in their twenties is usually how they vote for life. Millenials are trending Dem, but locking them in is smart, and showing that Democrats understand the new world, and are on the side of the future, not the past, is how you do it.

But, fundamentally, IP law is screwed up, bigtime.

There's an online petition here. Signing it is a start, but only a start and won't save internet radio.
What the issue needs is a sponsor - a congressperson with guts and vision, who's willing to sponsor a bill to stop this.

Shorter William F. Buckley:

I'd stand up for America's honor, morals, and liberties - but I'm too scared.

As justification for his lack of moral fiber, Buckley quotes a military historian who makes statements like these:

"The most widely respected Islamic authorities ... all assume that Muslims have a duty to spread the dominion of Islam, through military offensives, until it rules the world."

Leading Islamic scholars might find this statement, from someone who doesn't know their field, absurd. Savvy anti-terror strategists might observe that it plays into Al Qaeda's hands by defining all Muslims as terrorists.

But if it justifies Buckley's timidity, and his lack of reverence and respect for America's values, I guess it bears repeating.

Shorter Stephen F. Hadley (Bush National Security Advisor):

It takes guts to be this stupid.

What he actually says is that Bush "didn't take the easy way." That would be the way that looked at the facts, told the truth, and acted accordingly. No, says Hadley, we're too smart for that ...

Mike's Blog Round Up

Vox Verax: A John Bircher's take on G-Dub

The Existentialist Cowboy: Edward R. Murrow's prophetic speech to a meeting of the Radio and Television News Director's Association Convention in Chicago is as true today as it was on October 15, 1958.

Booman Tribune: Put this in the "Outrage of the Day" category...and the crooks and liars have the guts to whine about "Civility"

The Plank: The Manual of Torture and Forgetting. And this doesn't seem like such a good way to spread American-style democracy and rule of law principles, either.

Discourse.net: No Habla Ingles...Ever

Seeing the Forest: Walking people up the "crazy idea" ladder

Atrios has been on top of this story all day. I like it when the WaPo doesn't have the guts to answer a very basic question like this one:

Tapped:

Question 2: Does WashingtonPost.com have any liberal bloggers who can act as a counterpart to Mr. Domenech?

Straus: "Washingtonpost.com hires writers for their ability to add something substantive to the national conversation. As best as possible, we look for that ability regardless of political labels." ...read on

The answer is no. Cowards.

AmericaBlog picks up on this question too.

David Brock writes a letter: "I noted with interest the Post's decision to add Republican operative Ben Domenech to its roster of bloggers. Presumably, this decision grew out of reported complaints both inside and outside of the Post that online columnist Dan Froomkin is too liberal."

I've got a leak to sell you

Bob Woodward joined Larry King in his first interview after revealing that he knew the name of Valerie Plame and was called to testify in front of Fitzmas himself.

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I was talking to Jane and I agree that Bob knew he was going to be called as a witness sometime down the road so he finally came clean and told what he knew. First, listening to Bob for over thirty minutes almost put me in a self induced coma, but beside that is he really serious in his beliefs? If I want to leak something to a reporter, does Bob believe that I would hold out a bright-red-flashing-neon light that said "leak" while I talk to him? He can't be that naive, but the way he tells it, his source told him in such a casual manner that it didn't register to him. Isn't that the way a person would leak the information while trying to hide that fact, Bob? (By the way, you can forget some small potato being the leak. Bob wouldn't give those guys more than fifteen minutes of his time.)

Was Cheney, Libby and Rove sitting around playing "Texas Hold Em," wondering why Bob hadn't spilled his guts on the pages of the Washington Post all this time? Woodward only confirms that the White House was trying to tell every sympathetic reporter in earshot that Valerie Plame was CIA and Joseph Wilson's wife. It doesn't help Scooter's case either even though Bob can't seem to remember much from two years ago. I had the feeling that Bob thought he would be some sort of Gonzo reporter when he released this information, but instead looks like the village idiot.

FireDogLake says: "Bob Woodward managed to jam his giant ego into Larry King's tiny studio tonight to answer a few simple questions. To say that he did not dazzle before the cameras would be too kind. He really gave Sulzberger a run for the title of Bang Bang the Idiot Boy...read on"

AmericaBlog live blogged the whole telecast...

RNC's False Email

Not only are Ken Mehlman's talking points bullshit, but his emails are just as bad.

"We asked the RNC for their list of groups Mehlman was talking about, but they could not point to a single organization that had said it would oppose Harriet Miers."

When Ken makes the rounds, will any of the talking heads have the guts to call him on this?

You know it's bad when Bob comes out throwing daggers at the President.

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Armando says: "What does the President know and when did he know it?" As does AmericaBlog:" If the president wanted to know the answer, he could have just asked his staff 2 years ago."

Digby says: "The DC establishment has opened one droopy eye and they see that the Republicans might actually be vulnerable. So they pulled their guts from the storage box under the bed and tried them on for size. I wonder if they still fit after all this time?"

via The Huffington Post:

In a letter addressed to the Post's national editor, the newspaper's ombudsman and Milbank, the veteran House member was blunt.

"Dear Sirs," Conyers began, "I write to express my profound disappointment with Dana Milbank's June 17 report, 'Democrats Play House to Rally Against the War,' which purports to describe a Democratic hearing I chaired in the Capitol yesterday. In sum, the piece cherry-picks some facts, manufactures others out of whole cloth, and does a disservice to some 30 members of Congress who persevered under difficult circumstances, not of our own making, to examine a very serious subject: whether the American people were deliberately misled in the lead up to war. The fact that this was the Post's only coverage of this event makes the journalistic shortcomings in this piece even more egregious....read on

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It's great to see Conyers coming out swinging. He called Milbank on every one of his distortions on the facts of the hearing. Let's see if Milbank will have the guts to respond to Conyers. I doubt it. Probably the editor will give some "Scotty" type response.