"There are people who still believe that the moon landing was staged on a movie lot in Arizona.” —Al Gore on climate crisis deniers
Author - Bob Cesca
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...
Best Person
Norah O'Donnell shows everyone how the establishment media ought to be covering the torture situation.
Prime Time Thread
Open thread for your Thursday night blogotubing.
Super Stupid
Following up on Congressman Barton's proud ignorance from earlier, here's Bill O'Reilly being a dick towards Alan Colmes -- and getting his little "high school" history lesson totally wrong. Yep...
Shhhhh…
Photo: Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images Someone grab a Sharpie and write TAHSSA on his forehead. Hurry! Good lord. And in a meeting with credit card executives no less.
Correction
On the Wednesday radio show with Lee Stranahan, I mentioned that Abu Ghraib, in the late Winter of 2004, was perhaps the first example of American torture revealed to the public. I was off by a...
Unnecessary Torture for An Unnecessary War
An FBI interrogator speaks out. Sullivan summarizes the meat of the interrogator's op/ed: Soufan notes that torture was applied to Zubaydah even though he had provided a great deal of actionable and...
Proud Ignorance
Plate tectonics is something we learn in junior high school. And yet Congressman Joe Barton (R-Super Stupid) thinks the idea is hilarious and silly. Benen notes: Shortly thereafter, Barton tweeted...