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If you don’t want American officials to be prosecuted for torture, then don’t tell them to torture people. Mr. Mukasey, 66, a retired federal judge from New York, referred to the criminal liability issue several times in nearly 180 pages of written answers delivered to the Senate on Tuesday. He said that while he personally [...]
...read moreA Party of Bed-Wetters
Republicans are running entire campaigns based on their fears of monsters in the closet. Consider, for a moment, the implications of the fact that Rudy Giuliani is taking foreign policy advice from Norman Podhoretz, who wants us to start bombing Iran “as soon as it is logistically possible.” Mr. Podhoretz, the editor of Commentary and [...]
...read moreOsama bin Who?
Hey, remember the guy who planned the attack on the World Trade Center, and orchestrated a great many other acts of terrorism around the world? Well, not only is he still out there, but we’ve just made it harder to catch him because we needed to feed our propaganda machine: A small private intelligence company [...]
...read moreHappy Islamo-Fascist Awareness Week!
My message to the organizers: Please do not use my movement to prop up your racist bullshit. “Islamo-fascist Awareness Week” (yeah, really) is rapidly approaching, and conservative bed-wetters everywhere have decided to target universities for being hotbeds of Islamo-fascist-loving liberals. They’ve also decided to make the plight of Muslim women their theme this year. Reading [...]
...read moreWhy I Fight And Why We All Must
A must-read over at AMERICAblog by an Iraq war veteran. Go, go, go.
...read moreIf only it were as simple as killing poppies
Afghanistan’s drug problem is out of control — since we invaded and then got distracted in Iraq and subsequently failed our mission in practically every way, there has been a significant rise in poppy cultivation and opium production. Afghanistan produces almost all of the world’s opiates, and the Taliban makes a significant profit off of [...]
...read morePerhaps it *is* time to secede
Because, FSM knows, I don’t know how much longer I can stand to be subject to the whims of bedwetting goobers in Congress who hate and fear cities.
...read moreThe war against women
Susan Faludi has a new book coming out about how 9/11 and the fear of terrorism, has been used to push women back into the kitchen and out of public participation. Rebecca Traister has a wonderful review at Salon: Before she can pursue the big picture, Faludi must start where everyone else in America did: [...]
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