THEY TOLD ME IF I VOTED REPUBLICAN, PEOPLE WHO SPOKE OUT ON PRISONER TREATMENT WOULD BE PUNISHED: P.J. Crowley out at State. “P.J. Crowley is out as chief spokesman at the State Department after he publicly criticized the Defense Department’s handling of WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning, a senior administration official said Sunday.”

Plus, Mark Kleiman agonistes. Ah, remember the fierce moral urgency of change? Me neither.