Archive for April, 2009
Torture Memo Authors Will Walk Free
With the Obama administration’s release of the memos from OLC proving that the Bush administration tortured terror suspects, many in the political punditry class have begun screaming for blood. Jay Bybee and John Yoo took this country’s good name as a shining city on a hill and drug it through the same mud that only [...]
On The Value Of Making Policy According To Television Reality
“Nobody in intelligence believes in the ticking bomb. It’s just a way of framing the debate for public consumption. That is not an intelligence reality.” -Unnamed C.I.A. Source quoted in Vanity Fair article Tortured Reasoning
On The Power Of Shaking Hands
The relative views of relationships between groups of people and people are fundamentally different when it comes to conservatives and the politically progressive rest of society. During the 2008 Presidential election an incidental relationship between Bill Ayers and then Senator Obama was turned into a fast friendship by the McCain campaign. Now, after simply shaking [...]
On The Realities Of British Oppression
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Preserving The System
What happened in Europe was the Holocaust … and people came to see that popularly elected representatives could not always be trusted to preserve the system’s most basic values -Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg
Hurray For Teabagging
Well today marks tax day and we’ll have plenty of teabagging going on downtown with hundreds of people suddenly upset with mid-nineties tax rates and deficit spending. This assortment of Neil Boortz enthusiasts will be dumping gallons of cheap store bought Arizona Iced Tea and chai into the St. Johns River to protest their country [...]

