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I hinted I had something fun on Wednesday, but the folks at Opinio Juris and UN Dispatch put it out before I had the chance. Sarah Palin is a strong supporter of U.S. accession to the Law of the Sea Convention.

Free Webcam Chat at Ustream Four years ago, Osama bin Laden chronicler and CNN and New America Foundation terrorism expert PETER BERGEN, The Torture Papers: The Road to Abu Ghraib author and NYU Center on Law and Security Director KAREN GREENBERG, and I organized a day long mega-meeting of the world’s best and brightest al…

Here would be an interesting line of defense in Senator Norm Coleman’s brewing scandal. Perhaps Coleman just BORROWED the suits — and wore temporarily — a few times — and then returned them to friend and campaign supporter Nasser Kazeminy. Note to the press: Ask the spokesman if Coleman just took a few loaners. ….

Thanks to Politico‘s Ben Smith for sending this our way. This is the most painful press engagement between a campaign spokesman and a “polite, but persistent” group of media I have ever seen. Let’s just hope that Al Franken buys all of his own suits.

This is important and is more evidence of the dismantling of George W. Bush’s imperial presidency. Federal District Court Judge Ricardo Urbina has ordered the release by the end of this week of 17 Guantanamo detainees who happen to be Uighers.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel My colleague Michael Lind — who is Senior Fellow and Director of the New America Foundation’s American Infrastructure Initiative — offered some thoughts on what the future might look like over at The New Republic‘s “The Plank“.

I never learned to play a musical instrument. I have huge, widespread hands and should have been a pianist.

Ronald Lauder, the driving force behind New Yorkers for Term Limits, says he opposes an amendment to the term limit laws to allow three terms. He says he only agreed to a one-time exception for this mayor at this moment.