Author - Bob Cesca

Torture

The Door is Wide Open

Will Holder do it? The president today: With respect to those who formulated those legal decisions, I would say that is going to be more of a decision for the Attorney General within the parameters...

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White House

Yummy Juice

Here we see President Eisenhower cheerfully drinking with Soviet Presidium member Frol Kozlov in 1959. It's a good thing we weren't mortal enemies with the Soviets at that time. If we were, I'm sure...

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White House

America Hater

How could anyone have liked Ike? Tsk tsk. Here we see Soviet officials, Mikhail Menshikov and Anastas Mikoyan, at the height of the red scare -- behind the president's Oval Office desk! In America...

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Rudy Giuliani

Breathtaking Hypocrisy

Both Gingrich and Giuliani, of all people, are hitting the circuit to attack same-sex marriage. Rudy, who has been married three times: “Marriage, I believe, both traditionally and legally, has...

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Open Thread

Prime Time Thread

Open thread for your Monday night blogotubing. Adding... My wife's vintage clothing boutique is having an Earth Day Sale, along with her Etsy team. 20-50% off. Also, if you're into vintage clothing...

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Torture

Tortured Logic

Limbaugh today: "[I]f somebody can be water-tortured six times a day, then it isn't torture." Just remarkable. Even after the Bush OLC memos admit that all of these techniques were, in fact, torture...

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Torture

The McCain Conundrum

Senator McCain today on KSM being waterboarded 183 times in a month: One is too much. Waterboarding is torture, period. I can ensure you that once enough physical pain is inflicted on someone, they...

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Quote

Doof Quote of the Day

"The idea that carbon dioxide is a carcinogen that is harmful to our environment is almost comical. Every time we exhale, we exhale carbon dioxide. Every cow in the world, you know when they do what...

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Food

Idiocracy

I'm not sure how Comedy Central positions its advertising, but there's something really upsetting about watching Mike Judge's Idiocracy interspersed with promos for Ron White's new standup special...

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