Category: Politics & World Affairs
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Just in case you'd forgotten that we're in a permanent "war" with unstated objectives against unidentified "enemies," Digby quotes Senator Dianne Feinstein: The laws of war very clearly say that you can keep a combatant in detention for the length of the conflict. Now this is a bit of an unusual war in that sense,…
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The Texas legislature has given preliminary approval for issuing state licence plates that read "Choose Life." The revenue raised from the sale of the specialty plates will be used to fund adoptions and pro-life counseling at state pregnancy centers. The Senate tentatively passed a bill to establish "Choose Life" license plates, with revenue going to promote adoption.…
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I was going to write two posts about matters musical, but it’ll wait. First, Krugman has an NYT column about global warming and China, where he says the Chinese need to cut back on emissions, and should face economic sanctions if they don’t voluntarily do so fast enough: As the United States and other advanced…
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With the recent news that David Souter is retiring from the Supreme Court, President Obama will have his first opportunity to appoint a Supreme Court Justice. Putting aside speculation on what Obama might in fact do, I want to comment briefly on the type of ideological appointment he ought to make (this ignores other characteristics,…
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This is probably the best-case scenario for Democrats that I have seen and believe to be plausible: Rather than announcing that he has agreed to change his views to align with the majority across the board, Specter understandably at least wants to make it seem that he is maintaining his independent-mindedness. The Democrats have surely…
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Andrew wants someone to throw a shoe at Republican minority leader John Boehner. Well, it looks like a flying footwear has been launched toward Boehner's head by one of his own party. Republican senator from Pennsylvania, Arlen Specter is about to switch parties. With Al Franken almost certain to win a Democratic seat from Minnesota, this will hand…
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While the lawmakers and the media are tiptoeing around the torture memos and debating whom they implicate, cartoonist Nick Anderson of the Houston Chronicle evokes images of Abu Ghraib to point to the real torturers.
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The story of the "enhanced interrogation techniques" used by the Bush-Cheney administration is now unfolding in strange and unexpected ways. Just until last Sunday, President Obama and his spokespersons, even while they made the torture memos public, insisted that no prosecution of the planners and the executors was on the horizon. Suddenly, just in the past two days, the position of…
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In case you haven't watched today's news, here are the "torture memos" issued by Bush-Cheney's Justice Department which enabled the top administration bosses and their underlings in the CIA to carry out illegal torture tactics on prisoners. War criminals like Dick Cheney still justify their actions with impunity. Why should he worry? The weak-kneed Obama administration, even while making the…
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Texas governor Rick "Good Hair" Perry's latest political stunt.
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