Month: May 2009

Hey, GOP, We’re Not a Nation of Cowards

The Republicans really think that America is a nation of cowards. They really think people are so scared of the terrorists that we are holding in Cuba that they’ll revolt if they are moved to America. GOP pollster Glen...

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Dear al Queda: More Recruiting Tools 4U!

— Barack Obama [I]mages of prisoner maltreatment at Abu Ghraib still serve as recruiting tools for al-Qaeda. [E]ach civilian casualty for which we are even remotely responsible sets back our efforts to gain the confidence...

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Pelosi, Democrats & Torture

Last night on the Rachel Maddow Show the issue of the briefings Nancy Pelosi and other senior Democrats received on the Bush administration’s “enhanced interrogation techniques was a major topic of the program....

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Fooling the Fundies

I don’t want to get in the middle of the fight between Jamison Foser and Marc Ambinder. There just might be a little nitpicking going on. But I do want to comment on something Ambinder said in defense of Republicans that...

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