I don’t want to be the guy that sees terrorism everywhere, but the NY Post’s response to a faux anthrax-letter sent to Keith Olbermann is beyond shameful. This is their comment on the incident:
Keith Olbermann flipped out when he opened his home mail yesterday. The acerbic host of “Countdown with Keith Olbermann” was terrified [...]
New facts keep coming out about the torture bill. The newest is that it expands the definition of who the White House can consider an enemy combatant. They are now anyone who “has engaged in hostilities or who has purposefully and materially supported hostilities against the United States.” This language does not [...]
Well, I propped McCain for finally standing up to this administration last week. Looks like I was a little too quick. We are going to legalize torture. The president’s response:
I had a single test for the pending legislation, and that’s this: Would the CIA operators tell me whether they could go forward [...]
The Bush administration had to empty its secret prisons and transfer terror suspects to the military-run detention centre at Guantánamo this month in part because CIA interrogators had refused to carry out further interrogations and run the secret facilities, according to former CIA officials and people close to the programme.
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Updating from yesterday, Democracy Now has an interview with Maher Arar, the Canadian citizen that American officials shipped to Syria to be totured. Here is his description of what happened:
Really, I mean, when I arrived there, I just couldn’t believe it. I thought first it was a dream. I was crying all the time. I [...]
Our country’s leading statesman is acting like a petulant child.
QUESTION: Mr. President, former Secretary of State Colin Powell says, The world is beginning to doubt the moral basis of our fight against terrorism. If a former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and former secretary of state feels this way, don’t you think that Americans and the rest of [...]
Congress is trying to allow the White House’s warrantless wiretapping and their tribunal plans.
With prodding from Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) and House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.), the Senate Judiciary Committee voted 10 to 8 along party lines to approve a bill negotiated with the White House to allow — but not require [...]
Yeah, I know. Plenty of H.L. Mencken yesterday, but the guy just made too much sense and we never here about him these days.
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H. L. Mencken, 1922
Where is the grave-yard of dead gods? What lingering mourner waters their mounds? There was a day when Jupiter was the king of the gods, and any [...]
According to a new Gallup poll, 39% of Americans believe that the government should force Muslims to carry a special form of I.D.
Almost four in ten, 39%, advocate that Muslims here should carry special I.D. That same number admit that they do hold some “prejudice” against Muslims. Forty-four percent say their religious views are too [...]
