++The US delegation to the UN Human Rights Council surprisingly re-affirmed its commitment to the Torture Convention and to its interpretation that it holds true not only domestically but to its forces abroad. The New York Times had suggested that the Obama Administration was re-thinking its policy given the pressure put on it by both the CIA and the military. Sanity prevailed.
++Fox News reports that President Obama will announce his executive orders on immigration next week, which will be a ten point plan which will dramatically diminish the deportations of undocumented workers. It is said the orders will allow some 4 million people with children born in the United States to remain. This is another Big Deal.
++The President is also set to unveil a series of executive actions on climate change, which he has the authority to do under the Clean Air Act. The Supreme Court has upheld the President's authority to act unilaterally on such matters.
++The sky is falling. The Washington Post finally hailed President Obama's agreement with China over carbon reductions. Writers in various columns also hailed the other agreements he had reached with the Chinese.
++Senator Whitehouse said tomorrow he will vote against Mary Landrieu's bill to pass the Keystone Pipeline. She was to introduce it for unanimous consent. I guess she won't get it.
++The House weighs in on Keystone by sponsoring a Cassidy-Keystone Pipeline bill.
++The Obama Administration has ordered a review of its own ISIS strategy because they want to deal with both the Assad regime and ISIS.
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