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Waterboarding is torture

I am so sick of candidates and nominees for high office being okay with waterboarding. Is anyone who’s ever been waterboarded going to say it’s okay? I doubt it. Is anyone who’s almost drowned going to...

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More fear, more terror, and ever more stupidity

There has got to be a better way to fight the war on terror: “In the UK: “A man who had gone into a diabetic coma on a bus in Leeds was shot twice with a Taser gun by police who feared he may have been...

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Pope Rat can do the right thing

Or not. “In Iraq itself, we have succeeded in destroying a formerly prosperous and secular country, and creating the largest refugee problem in the modern Middle East: 4m Iraqis have now been forced...

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This just in! Humanity does not exist!

“In the early 1980s, Gray, who teaches European thought at the London School of Economics, was the most capable defender of Friedrich von Hayek as a social philosopher rather than just a propagandist...

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So much to fear, so little time

“It was Keynes, too, who anticipated and helped prepare for the ‘craving for security’ that Europeans would feel after the three decades of war and economic collapse that followed the end of the Gilded...

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Damn, this still hurts

Remembering Molly Ivins. And it might never stop hurting.

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We have to inaugurate a Dem Prez in 2009

Even if it’s Hillary, even though Bill recently said the US should leave some troops in Iraq to protect the Kurds from the Turks (also here), which is one the worst ideas I’ve heard in a long time....

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I hope she rests in peace because Pakistan isn’t going to for a long time, if...

I haven’t said anything about Benazir Bhutto’s death because I have and had very mixed feelings about what her return to Pakistan might actually mean. I am sorry she died and the unspeakable way she...

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Happy New Year, everyone!

I got to wake up with a sore throat, but that just means I’m getting it out of the way for the rest of 2008. And since it IS 2008, I can post this again! Journal of Bloglandia, because Blogtopia...

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Terrorist bag men of the GOP

“The 42-count grand jury indictment alleges Mr Siljander lied about lobbying senators on behalf of the Missouri-based Islamic American Relief Agency (IARA). “The indictment alleges the charity sent...

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Portable media for the troops

“We work directly with members of the United States Military, corporations, and the general public to provide portable media to active troops in order to boost morale and keep our men and women in...

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Mayerson GOTV: Yeah, irony, just vote for Dems in November, please?

I loathe American irony, but I found this apt: Voter Registration in all 50 States. Ginger doesn’t want to hear you didn’t know how to register to vote. She knows baby is muuuuuch smarter than that.

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Soldiers in Iraq would like some books, if you have any to spare

This email was forwarded to me from a reliable source. The original sender’s son, who was stationed there, confirmed that they have almost nothing in their library: “I am now on active duty again and...

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Georgia on my mind

Honestly! If you really want to know what’s going on in the world, you have to read the Asia Times. “GORI, Georgia (Reuters) – Georgia called for a ceasefire on Saturday after Russian bombers widened...

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Jesus God what kind of a country do I live in?

Where has Dr. Aafia Siddiqui been for the past five years? And what’s been happening to her? “On August 5, US newspapers carried the story of the capture of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani woman who...

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Mullah Omar Lives!

“LONDON (Reuters) – Taliban leader Mullah Omar on Monday urged U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan to withdraw or face a similar defeat to occupying Soviet troops a generation ago. “In a rare message,...

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President Obama has his work cut out for him

“Pakistani intelligence sources report that Siddiqui was in Pakistani detention until the end of 2003 and that her son Suleman fell ill and died during that time. It is known that terrorism suspects...

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There are 8 Jews left in Baghdad

“Once one of the largest Jewish communities in the Middle East, Baghdad Jews have now nearly vanished while the country has been consumed by sectarian war.” ~snip~ “Iraq’s Jewish community dates from...

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Did you know Get Your War On was ending?

I didn’t. Talk about the end of an era. “In 2004, Rees announced that the strip (Get Your War On) would end with the Bush administration, and with Barack Obama assuming the U.S. Presidency on January...

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On to the Hague!

“In an interview on Tuesday evening with the German television program ‘Frontal 21,’ on channel ZDF Professor Manfred Nowak, the United Nations Rapporteur responsible for torture, stated that with...

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