McClatchy Newspapers: Vice President Dick Cheney has confirmed that U.S. interrogators subjected captured senior al Qaida suspects to a controversial interrogation technique called “water-boarding,” which creates a...
Read MoreToo funny. Via Atrios, here is Joe Klein wanking on the Joe Scarborough show last night. KLEIN: You know, I just can‘t get over Rush Limbaugh. Boy—you know, people who live in glass pillboxes shouldn‘t throw spitballs, right? I...
Read MoreIn the entire history of the country only fifteen black representatives and one senator have ever chaired congressional committees. Senator Blanche Bruce (R-MS, 1875-1881), Representatives Yvonne B. Burke (D-CA, 1973-1979),...
Read MoreNew Jersey has legalized gay marriage, although it still isn’t clear what it will be called. Here’s the decision (.pdf). This might have some political consequences for the midterms, but who cares? They did the right...
Read MoreMy grandmother and mother come from Dothan, Alabama. I used to go to see my grandmother when I was a little boy. She had a farm and would show me what the pigs and cows and chickens did. (I was known for eating a lot of chicken,...
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