Month: November 2005

Cross-posted at EuroTrib.com.Although we should be boycotting the WaPo, there’s Dana Priest’s story today — “CIA Holds Terror Suspects in Secret Prison,” via Memeorandum and Buzzflash — that...

Froggy Bottom Cafe Welcome newcomers! Please introduce yourself Come on in! Coffee & Tea under the window, platters of treats on every table Newspapers are in their regular spot next to the door Please recommend (and...

Housing is the engine of the current US economy.  A conservative reading of the last 4 years of job gains indicates it is responsible for roughly 40% of job creation.  Last year, housing was responsible for 44% of the...

Gadfly is Marty Aussenberg, a columnist for the weekly Memphis Flyer. Marty is a former SEC enforcement official, currently in private law practice in Memphis, Tennessee. (A full bio is below the fold.) Cross-posted at The...

Secret prisons holding unnamed prisoners in underground cells in unnamed places for undetermined time periods out of reach of any country’s law or of international law without any oversight by human rights groups or anyone...