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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
CIA Not So Smooth
Those CIA officers convicted in absentia by an Italian court yesterday for the kidnapping and rendition of Abu Omar? ABC reports an unforgivable lack of inattention to basic operational security was the reason they got caught. The poor decisions behind … Continue reading
The Week In Torture
Former Vice President Dick Cheney had been so very quiet lately. Then last week, the two reports he claimed would vindicate him were released, and Cheney resurfaced with a slightly different story: Mind you, this “appearance” of effective torture has … Continue reading
Fear, Lies, and Torture
The head of Bush’s WMD terrorism unit is on HuffPo tonight warning us it’s too dangerous to prosecute torturers. Saying he is against torture and supported Obama, Charles Faddis says that “initiating this inquiry, directed as it is at serving … Continue reading
Iran Admits to Torture of Protesters
From the British Guardian: Iran’s police chief admitted yesterday that protesters who were arrested after June’s disputed presidential election had been tortured while in custody in a prison in south-west Tehran. But he denied that any of the detainees had … Continue reading
Habeas Corpus: A Theory
At HuffPo, Andy Worthington wonders why Obama is allowing the Pentagon to continue legal proceedings against a Gitmo inmate despite a federal judge’s ruling that the government has “no case:” I still have no firm idea why Obama and Holder … Continue reading
Not Another Bush
Obama made lots of progressives angry when he decided to keep the idea of military commissions. But his commissions will be a little different: WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has determined that detainees tried by military commissions in the U.S. … Continue reading
Amateur Torture
The US Army has no MOS (Military Occupational Specialty) code for ‘translator.’ Only after a soldier finishes the grueling Basic Arabic Course at the Defense Language Institute (and that’s a big ‘if,’ since the course has a 38% graduation rate) … Continue reading
Innocence is No Excuse
Lakhdar Boumediene was arrested in October 2001 for supposedly plotting to blow up a US embassy. A Bosnian court ordered him released for lack of evidence, but the Bosnian government handed him over to the United States instead. After more … Continue reading
Torture: Three Questions
The symbol of Christianity is a man being tortured to death. Given the apologies being made for torture — and the way they are being swallowed wholeheartedly by the most Christian-y Christians among us — I have two questions to … Continue reading
The Week In Torture (UPDATE)
Really, isn’t it time for a magazine yet? “Torture Weekly” could run competing op-eds on a different question every week: is torture justified? Should we investigate torture? And of course: is waterboarding torture? For one talk radio blowhard, the answer … Continue reading
