remember, please, who the President was when the United States . . .

. . . decided that we needed to make the world safe . . . for cluster bombs.

and descending further into the abyss, the obama administration declares itself to be immune to court decisions

Just great.  He can be tried, and if found guilty can then be executed.  But if the military tribunal finds him not guilty, he can still be held for the rest of his life.

Thank you, Barack Obama.

From Reuters:

MIAMI, Nov 2 (Reuters) - The U.S. war crimes tribunal that will try the alleged planner of a deadly attack on a U.S. warship has no power to free him if he is acquitted, military prosecutors said in court documents made public on Wednesday.

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Nashiri, a 46-year-old Saudi Arabian of Yemeni descent, could be executed if he is convicted of charges that include conspiracy, murder and perfidy.

But the U.S. government has said that regardless of the trial's outcome, it has authority to hold the alleged al Qaeda conspirator until the end of hostilities in the U.S. war against terrorism -- essentially for the rest of his life.

Pictures worth not just thousands of words, but trillions of dollars

This from Kids Prefer Cheese (written by real, actual economists and such):

It has become almost fashionable to claim that the Fed is not doing nearly enough to revive the economy. This conclusion follows from the same logic that the "stimulus was too small" meme employs: Has the economy recovered? No? Then policymakers have not done nearly enough.

Check out what's happened to the monetary base since the crisis began:

The base has gone from a path of roughly doubling each decade to more than tripling in three years. 

Then this is the new proposed gerrymandered Congressional district in Maryland,