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Jayne Lyn Stahl: On the Fight for Marriage Equality in CaliforniaI'm as upset about the outcome of Proposition 8 as anyone else is, but I don't think that it is the signature issue of our times. The President-elect's plans for what to do with detainees, once he closes Guantanamo Bay, how to handle military tribunals, whether to incarcerate indefinitely withou... |
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"Counterintelligence"A disquieting article in yesterday's Wall Street Journal claims that "President-elect Barack Obama is unlikely to radically overhaul controversial Bush administration intelligence policies" and specifically references torture and surveillance as the policies Obama is not going to rock t... |
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Democrats unsure what to do about LiebermanI hear waterboarding isn' torture.Seriously, I can't even believe we're having this discussion. What kind of spineless party are we, that we're even discussing whether Lieberman should be punished. Let's review Lieberman's crimes:1. He endorsed the Republican presidential candidate, with the cl... |
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Al Qaeda Schooled in Making Detonators Out of Sega Cartridges [16-Bit Boom]Apparently, escaping from Guantánamo Bay is not quite as easy as Harold and Kumar made it seem. As the NYT points out, the prison still harbors terrorists that the government claims are highly trained and resourceful—including at least one detainee that was taught how make detonators out of old S ... |
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Zoe Williams on the journalists volunteering to experience waterboardingChristopher Hitchens got waterboarded (if that is the verb) for Vanity Fair last year, to see first-hand whether or not it was torture. He concluded that if waterboarding did not constitute torture, there is no such thing as torture. The world didn't erupt with one voice of adulation at his piece... |
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GOP reprogramming: Eagleburger now says he loves PalinSeems the GOP Ministry of Truth got ahold of Lawrence Eagleburger today and promptly cured him of his temporary insanity yesterday in dismissing Sarah Palin's qualifications: Eagleburger: You are witnessing something quite unique -- a man who's about to talk to you while he has his foot in his... |
