Month: August 2006

American-Style Torture

Continuing with the theme of right-wing fantasies of violence, Mike at Pundit Guy has an opinion on the alleged killer of Jon-Benet Ramsey. Authorities sat John Mark Karr in Business Class on a flight from Thailand to Los...

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Diverse Evil Councillors

Richard Nixon’s lawyers tried to claim that the President was “as powerful a monarch as Louis XIV, only four years at a time”. In the current debates about Presidential power in respect of the unauthorised NSA...

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Pakistani Immigrants and Terrorism

Neil MacFarquhar examines the Pakistani community in Chicago in today’s New York Times. Why is the Pakistani population in America so much better intergrated and less prone to radicalism than the Pakistani population in...

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