I have this theory that the establishment press -- the same press that cheerlead the Whitewater/Lewinsky investigation -- is so adamantly against a torture investigation because it's becoming clear...
Media and Torture and Iraq
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Author - Bob Cesca
Speaking of Right Wing Extremists
Wow: Daniel Knight Hayden, 52, was arrested by FBI agents who identified him as the Twitter user CitizenQuasar. In a series of tweets beginning April 11, CitizenQuasar vowed to start a "war" against...
Rick Santorum: Still An Asshat
On FOX News talking about the DHS right wing extremist report: Well, it's not a good thing for this administration to have a Secretary of Homeland Security, who has over 40,000 veterans working in...
Kristol's Got A Fever…
...And the only cure is more Cheney. Bill Kristol wants Liz Cheney to run for president. Why? Because of her... ...boffo performance yesterday in the lefties’ den, MSNBC, defending sensible...
Morning Awesome
Death Cab for Cutie - "Cath..." Acoustic TelegraphTV Session
Saturday Night Thread
Saturday night open thread.
Wingnut Wisdom
Torture -- specifically waterboarding -- is just like. . . . . .high school swim team practice. So by this logic, why aren't interrogators putting together an evildoer swim team? And a note to...
Quote of the Day
"There are people who still believe that the moon landing was staged on a movie lot in Arizona.” —Al Gore on climate crisis deniers
The President and The Torture Investigation
The more I think about it, the more I believe that President Obama can't -- in a political sense -- demand an investigation into torture. He needs to appear as if he's above what is clearly going to...
Morning Awesome
MST3K Saturday! "Why Study Industrial Arts?"
Far Left America Haters
Of course the lefty liblab moonbats are the only ones who think torture is a bad idea: The unintended consequence of a U.S. policy that provides for the torture of prisoners is that it could be used...
Prime Time Thread
Open thread for your Friday night blogotubing.
Quote of the Day
"The United States participated actively and effectively in the negotiation of the Convention . It marks a significant step in the development during this century of international measures against...
And it Gets Worse
No permanent physical damage? What about this from the August, 2002 OLC memo? ...a detainee could suffer spasms of the larynx that would prevent him from breathing even when the application of water...
The Right Thing To Do
Malkin is ballyhooing the latest Rasmussen poll indicating that 58 percent of likely voters think that releasing the OLC torture memos damages national security. Malkin of course mistakenly takes...
The Ticking Nuke
One of the arguments I'm hearing more often than most is the 24 ticking nuke scenario. The danger from the pro-torture right's argument is that there are no logical limits to what ought to be done in...
Morning Joe
Watching Morning Joe this morning, it's staggering how the predominant tone is that torture is President Obama's problem. The discourse on the show isn't about how and why the Bush administration...
Morning Awesome
Garbage - "Vow" (Source: Chez)
The YouTubes
I spend a lot of time on YouTube, mainly because I inexplicably committed to posting an awesome or interesting video every morning. And so here are a few things about YouTube that are kicking my ass...
Quote of the Day
"We are staring into an abyss and it's staring back at us, and we don't do it. We are America." —Shepard Smith on FOX News Channel today tagging a story about Speaker Pelosi's remarks regarding...