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Re: Honey, I Found the Voter Registration Fraud
05/22/12 6:02 am
Question: Does the GOP at any level do anything like a basic background check? It'd make elections a lot less embarassing.Re: Morning Awful: Libertarians
05/18/12 12:42 pm
Quoth Cerberus at Sadly, No!: You know, I want a magic button that deprives people who say they are self-made and didn’t rely on no gover...Re: Morning Awful: Libertarians
05/18/12 5:11 am
:: facepalm :: Libertarians remind me of starry-eyed 19 year-old college students who have lots of lofty ideas that would never work in ...05/17/12 6:40 am
Conrad Black did it to get a fancy title and thought he wouldn't get caught.Re: Wingnut Wind Power Wankery is Not About Free Markets
05/14/12 4:48 pm
You can add this to the list of idiocies. –alopeciaRe: Morning Awful: Closet Romney
05/13/12 9:58 am
As Bill Maher said in his monologue on Friday (one of the more prescient comments), in most salons, the guy wielding the scissors is the ga...Re: The Democratic Party Marijuana Evolution
05/11/12 3:48 pm
Buy stocks in marijuana too. It goes to a good cause and you make some money on the side. If marijuana is so bad, why is it that there are ...05/09/12 2:47 pm
I swear, I wrote this last night, and I had no idea what was coming today.Re: Morning Awful: North Carolina
05/09/12 10:37 am
My thoughts on this are going up in a comic later tonight. Good news is, it appears the President listened to them before they even got ...Re: Morning Awful: North Carolina
05/09/12 6:03 am
I was so disappointed when I heard the news about North Carolina this morning. There's still a lot of work to do.Re: Morning Awful: North Carolina
05/09/12 2:26 am
Thank you. I could not have said this better. The more they bemoan and bully the President for a response, the more divided the Democrats l...05/08/12 12:39 pm
This makes perfect sense. My problem is that I have come to dislike organized religion so much, feel so cynical about it, I don't know...Re: #StopRush, ALEC, and the Howard Stern Category
05/08/12 11:59 am
Like “class warfare,” it is only wrong when we fight back. Sounds an awful lot like every bully, everywhere, doesn't it? –alopeciaRe: Morning Awful: Mitt Romney is Weak
05/08/12 6:46 am
Rachel Maddow is rooting for Ron Paul...and thinks the current president has too much power - like there ARE two other branches of governme...
Category Archives: torture
The Point of Torture is Torture
There is a progressive argument that since torture is wrong, we need not bother to argue that it does not work. In fact, both arguments are necessary and crucial, much as it’s crucial to argue that racism is both stupid … Continue reading
Rick Santorum Loves Torture Porn
The former Senator spouted off yesterday, leaving a frothy mix of verbal diarrhea and lubricating ignorance all over his chin: WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Sen. Rick Santorum said Tuesday that Sen. John McCain, who spent 5 1/2 years enduring brutal … Continue reading
Preexisting Failure
How Republicans reacted to the news that accused embassy bomber Ahmed Ghailani has been found not guilty on almost all charges: U.S. Rep. Pete Hoekstra, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, said Wednesday’s verdict confirms that the Obama … Continue reading
I Want The Truth
I can handle it: Jay Bybee, who as a senior Justice Department lawyer signed two memos in 2002 authorizing CIA interrogators to torture “war on terror” prisoners, told a congressional panel that more than a half dozen other brutal methods … Continue reading
The Morning Awful
Not only did the Bushies torture prisoners; they have been torturing logic ever since. Is there any doubt the Bush administration was sociopathic? Khalid Sheikh Mohammad was not waterboarded 183 times in search of information. It was punishment, pure and … Continue reading
Shahzad Is Talking
So the feds managed to arrest Shahzad before the plane could take off, and asked him questions, and then read him his Miranda rights before continuing to ask him questions — questions to which he is still giving answers. But…not … Continue reading
No Immunity For Rumsfeld
The worst SecDef in American history will not be protected from the consequences of his policy. Which is what happens when you treat US citizens just like Teh Brown: The suit filed in 2006 alleges that while working for the … Continue reading
Ripping Cheney’s Heart Out
While Dick Cheney was hospitalized for chest pains, the criminal justice system was busy disproving his entire doctrine. AP via HuffPo: NEW YORK — A former airport shuttle driver accused of buying beauty supplies to make bombs for an attack … Continue reading
Abdulmutallab Breaks Without Torture
The underpants bomber is once again giving information under questioning. This is according to Dennis Blair, the Director of National Intelligence. FBI agents didn’t even need the waterboard: according to the MSNBC report, Abdulmutallab is now cooperating as part of … Continue reading
Reading Abdulmutallab’s Rights
The nontroversy over the underpants bomber’s Miranda warning has hit a peak with this LA Times story today: FBI agents questioned him at the hospital for just under an hour. They did not give him the Miranda warning, which advises … Continue reading
Bob McDonnell’s Tortured Response and the Origins of Cheneyism
In his response to the president’s SOTU last night — before a curiously packed and well-coached statehouse — Virginia’s new governor took up the anti-Obama mantle. Not only did his remarks remarkably seem off-key, considering the president’s actual speech, but … Continue reading
