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War on Terror? Torture? Prosecute Us?

There is an ongoing debate over the closing of America’s most notorious detainment/torture center at Guantanamo and the legality and efficacy of using torture to extract “information” from detainees in that and other facilities.
In a piece in this morning’s Washington Post titled Torture? Prosecute Us, Too Richard Cohen leads with this:
“The past is a foreign [...]

Must Read of the Day: An Open letter to Hillary Clinton Supporters

Jeralyn posted an “An Open letter to Hillary Clinton Supporters” on TalkLeft today that is a must read for all those Clinton supporters still threatening to vote for McCain or a third party candidate.
Here’s some excerpts:

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John Kerry or Ed O’Reilly — John Kerry Has My Vote

Dave Johnson of Seeing the Forest is cross-posting madly all over the web, ostensibly soliciting bloggers’ opinions of John Kerry.
Why? Who is behind this? The phrasing of the question strikes me as disingenuous in the extreme. Kerry’s declared primary opponent Ed O’Reilly’s website shows him to be thin on resume, thin on [...]