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By now it is pretty obvious that the House GOP leadership is essentially devoid of ideas outside of Social Darwinism and Objectivism. But I noticed the other day that its cultural pose is also one of pure puffery. Consider “Young Guns,” the “book” theoretically authored by Eric Cantor, Paul Ryan, and Kevin McCarthy. “Young Guns” [...]
Archive for the ‘Torture’ Category
May 23rd, 2011
Category: National Security, Republican Party, Terrorism and its control, Torture, Watching Conservatives
May 17th, 2011
Category: Torture, Watching Conservatives
Rick Santorum thinks that human beings are things that you’re allowed to break. He cannot therefore properly be called either a Christian or a conservative.
May 3rd, 2011
Commenting yesterday on how the United States discovered Bin Laden’s whereabouts: “I would assume that the enhanced interrogation program that we put in place produced some of the results that led to bin Laden’s ultimate capture,” said former Vice President Dick Cheney on Fox News. That’s right! He would assume it. He wouldn’t try to [...]
April 24th, 2011
Category: Torture
At least he’s out of Quantico, and out of solitary. Good news, though more than a little late.
March 13th, 2011
Category: Torture
The State Department spokesman who spoke out on the maltreatment of Bradley Manning is forced out.
February 5th, 2011
This New York Times story details some of the routine, casual, mindless brutality of the Egyptian secret police, the Mukhabarat. Until last week, the head of the Mukhabarat was Omar Suleiman, now the Vice President. Think about that when you read that the U.S. is pressing the Egyptian opposition to come to terms with Suleiman. [...]
October 22nd, 2010
Category: Torture
Was there some event that happened just before 2009 that might explain why we went from “shrugging” at torture to caring about it?
September 10th, 2010
Category: Torture
The Ninth Circuit rules that the Obama Administration can continue to cover up the war crimes of its predecessor. The NYT calls that “a victory for Obama.”
September 3rd, 2010
The news service of the United Nations Office of Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has a report out on psychological trauma among Iraqis. What Iraqis have gone through over the past 40 years rivals the suffering of any other people in the world, but overall, things actually look less bleak in terms of Iraq’s mental health [...]
