Month: September 2006

The US just violated International Law by passing the Torture Law. I’m starting this open thread specifically for discussion of International Law and Torture. I need someone that understands International Law to fill us in...

(Click for larger image)”Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon,” economist Milton Friedman once said. Whether the symptom was rising wages, rising prices, booming assets, inflating housing prices,...

x-posted at orange I see trend passing, like a dark storm cloud over western civilization.  I cloud of immaturity, ignorance, superstition, regressive hatred, and self-loathing in the mind of western man (including women in...

Two snippets struck me from the September 26, 2006 R. Jeffrey Smith-written Washington Post article about the Big Three (McCain, Graham and Wartner) and their ‘stand’ against the Bush-aholics on torture:   ...

It’s over. The bill’s ultimate passage was assured on Wednesday when Democrats agreed to forgo a filibuster in return for consideration of the (Specter) amendment. Any changes in the Senate bill, however, would have made...