From geoff B: “pieced together from 3 main footnoted sources listed and some others with one speculative comment by myself.” Geoff Local time. {Washington time} 7:30 pm {1:30 pm} Ambassador has final meeting of the day with Turkish diplomat. [1] 8:00 pm {2:00 pm} Ansar al-Shariah militants setting up checkpoints down away from compound.[2] [3] 8:30 pm {2:30 pm} Diplomat leaves Consulate compound. Everything quiet on street in front of

I’m not sure what it’s like in the rest of the country, but here in Colorado, every ad Obama and the Democrats are running, be it for the presidential race or for the House and Senate races, are some variation of the suggestion that the Republicans are going to take away your contraceptives and your right to choose.  These ads are, for the most part, almost completely devoid of fact,

The Blaze: Retired Army Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer said Saturday he has sources saying President Barack Obama was in the room at the White House watching the assault on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya unfold. Two unarmed U.S. drones were dispatched to the consulate and recorded the final hours of the attack, which killed U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens and three other Americans. “This was in the middle

— I’m more a puristy blog that caters to True Believers, concentrating on foundational assumptions and the nature and trajectory of both constitutional law and the civil society as a natural and predictable offshoot of whatever ideology happens to be informing our epistemology or controlling our use of language. And also haikus. It’s not terribly sexy — and it’s certainly not very popular, I realize — but then, it does