Author: BooMan

New Yorker Exposes Torture

Thanks to rba for pointing me to Jane Mayer’s excellent and devastating article in the New Yorker. Ms. Mayer does a profile in courage on Alberto J. Mora, the outgoing general counsel of the United States Navy, who waged a...

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Listen to Carter

Jimmy Carter says it all in his editorial on the best way forward in dealing with the new Hamas-dominated parliament in Palestine. Nowhere is the schizophrenia of the Bush administration’s attitude toward democracy more...

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Newsweek: Cheney is a Liar

We all know, many of us thanks to Michael Moore, that George W. Bush read a book about a pet goat with young schoolchildran even after he found out about the second plane flying into the World Trade Center. And I’ve never...

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Talking Impeachment in Rhode Island

It is possible for a state or territory of the United States to initiate impeachment proceedings against judges or against the President of the United States. You can read about how it works and the precedents here. In Rhode...

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Editorial in the London Times

The Times of London has an amazing editorial today. Everyone should read it and send it all their relatives. Here’s a teaser: For George Bush and Blair to demand a “long war” against Bin Laden and, by implication, a long...

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