You Can Go Home Again, If You’re White
Friday, December 28th, 2007
David Hicks, a white Australian dude, was picked up fighting with the Taliban in 2001 and brought to Guantanamo. He spent 5 years there before he pled guilty last March to providing material support to al Qaeda as part of a deal to serve out the remainder of his sentence back home in Australia. He was released today. There are more than 300 inmates remaining at Guantanamo, 150 of whom we pretty much have no intention of never releasing. I’m guessing none of them are white. [Yahoo News]
David Hicks, a white Australian dude, was picked up fighting with the Taliban in 2001 and brought to Guantanamo. He spent 5 years there before he pled guilty last March to providing material support to al Qaeda as part of a deal to serve out the remainder of his sentence back home in Australia. He was released today. There are more than 300 inmates remaining at Guantanamo, 150 of whom we pretty much have no intention of never releasing. I’m guessing none of them are white. [Yahoo News]
I’m sure it seemed like a good — or at least sexy — idea at the time, but eight Florida prison officers 
The U.S. Court of Appeals in D.C. unanimously rejected Scooter Libby’s plea for bail instead of jail, and that means 
Remember that confusing thing we posted yesterday about some Senate ethics bill that maybe would’ve turned regular political bloggers into some sort of 
She’s so much fun, sometimes we forget she’s also a crooked politician who put GWB in the White House and ran with the same bribery crowd as Duke Cunningham. But we got this tip today to remind us all over again:
There is nothing Washington editors fear more than the daily e-mails from Liz Richardson, deputy press secretary to the honorable guy from Massachusetts who isn’t Teddy Kennedy. It’s not because of Liz herself — we don’t know her and can’t blame her for taking whatever job comes up in these tough times — but because her name is attached to these endless John Kerry responses to everything that happens. 
Wedding bells may soon be ringing — what are wedding bells, anyway? — for Chelsea Clinton, but there will be no creepy dance with her new father-in-law, because he’s locked up in prison.