The CIA has admitted that it has documents explicitly signed by the President “specifying interrogation methods that the C.I.A. may use against top Al Qaeda members.†The content of the documents haven’t been disclosed, but I think everyone knows what to expect.
The Central Intelligence Agency has acknowledged for the first time the existence of [...]
Abel Tomlinson, the person who made the speech on Morality and Liberalism at the Fayetteville March for Change before the election, was arrested on election day, apparently for repeating the same speech. There is a video of his arrest on youtube, but first here is Abel’s recount of what happened (from his website, buddhachristlove.blogspot.com):
UAPD [...]
According to Bent Corner, Wal-Mart still hasn’t removed the Nazi shirts from their stores.
Yesterday afternoon I stopped at a Wal-Mart on my way home for work and found a stack of the same shirts still for sale in the men’s department. My wife also stopped at a different Wal-Mart on her way home from [...]
ABC news is reporting that Donald Rumsfeld may be facing war crimes charges in Germany:
Though he has resigned as Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld is expected to be accused of war crimes in a lawsuit to be filed next week in Germany.
The Center for Constitutional Rights will file the suit on behalf of a group [...]
I got an email from a Wal-Mart public relations firm regarding the Nazi T-Shirts:
James,
Good morning. My name is Marshall Manson. I work for Edelman doing online public affairs for Wal-Mart. I noticed your post about the t-shirts that Wal-Mart is selling. I wanted to make sure you saw the company’s statement about this [...]
Bent Corner found something interesting on a trip to Wal-Mart. They are selling T-Shirts with Nazi symbols on them.
Wal-Mart Shirt
Nazi Death Head
I stopped in at Wal-Mart today after I got off work. I had to pick up a few things. As I was walking past the men’s clothing area, something caught [...]
I don’t really know what to say about this that Feministing, Feministe, and Pandagon haven’t already said, but everyone needs to be aware of this. An appellate court in Maryland has ruled that after sex has begun a woman has no right to withdraw her consent.
Feministe had this to say:
let’s pretend that “average person†[...]
“no-brainer” I agree with him for once. I doubt very much that they were using their brians at all.
WASHINGTON - Vice President Dick Cheney has confirmed that U.S. interrogators subjected captured senior al-Qaeda suspects to a controversial interrogation technique called “water-boarding,” which creates a sensation of drowning.
Cheney indicated that the Bush administration doesn’t [...]
The US state of New Jersey’s Supreme Court has ruled that gay couples are entitled to the same rights as heterosexual couples.
But the court says it is for the legislature to decide whether the state will honour gay marriage or some other form of civil union.
Lawmakers have been given six months to decide whether to [...]
From yesterday’s Boston Globe:
UNITED NATIONS –Several governments around the world have tried to rebut criticism of how they handle detainees by claiming they are only following the U.S. example in the war on terror, the U.N. anti-torture chief said Monday.
Manfred Nowak, the U.N. special investigator on torture, said that when he criticizes governments for their [...]
