It’s a new year, and we’ve been trying to find new topics for our columns.
In reviewing the columns over the past few years, we wrote against racism and animal cruelty. But, there’s still racism and animal cruelty, so we’ll still have to speak out on these critical social issues.
We wrote about tolerance and the acceptance [...]
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First the conservative, at times, and bitter Christopher Hitchens: [PS: These last for about 5 minutes each as they set up and then do the actual torture. It is hard to watch. Very hard.]
Second, Mancow: The setup is much less professional than the one that tortured Hitchens. It was enough.
Now that’s horrible isn’t it? And [...]
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There is much to talk about.
Here’s one: The RW radio host ‘Mancow‘ was waterboarded this morning and lasted 12 seconds. He called it ‘drowning’ and, as much as he didn’t want to, vehemently called it ‘torture‘. I’ll be looking for the YouTube and post tomorrow or late tonight.
It’s vivid, horrid, quick and nowhere near the [...]
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Filed under: Bush Admin, Civil Liberties/Civil Rights, Conservatives, Homeland Security, In The News, Stuart O'Neill
Frank Rich on why the Obama administration must persue a “truth commission” on torture and the Bush administration:
TO paraphrase Al Pacino in “Godfather III,” just when we thought we were out, the Bush mob keeps pulling us back in. And will keep doing so. No matter how hard President Obama tries to turn the page [...]
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Filed under: Bush, Bush Admin, Democrats, George W. Bush, In The News, OP/ED's, Obama Administration, Opinions, Pamela Leavey, Political News, Politics, President Barack Obama, Republicans, Torture
Dick Cheney has apparently been on a magical mystery media tour.
He has sought out and been interviewed by more TV journalists and talk show hosts during the past month than during the eight years he was vice president.
The topic is always the same. Torture was done during the Bush-Cheney Administration, and it was effective. Persons [...]
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[by Rosemary and Walter Brasch]
There have now been more than 4,000 deaths and 30,000 casualties of American military in the war in Iraq. More than 100,000 Iraqis and others, most of them civilian, have also been killed in what is now known to be an unnecessary war. But, we as a nation are not outraged.
We [...]
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Legislatures in Pennsylvania and Illinois are considering bills that would reduce or eliminate what animal welfare advocates call mutilations, and what breeders and American Kennel Club (AKC) call “breed standards.” Because dogs are considered by state laws to be property, individual owners may currently cut and shape dogs’ ears (cropping) or amputate part or all [...]
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A new USA TODAY/Gallup Poll finds a majority “in favor of investigating some of the thorniest unfinished business from the Bush administration: Whether its tactics in the “war on terror” broke the law.”
Close to two-thirds of those surveyed said there should be investigations into allegations that the Bush team used torture to interrogate terrorism suspects and its [...]
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I continue to applaud enthusiastically through the early days of the Obama presidency.
So far, Obama is what many of us expected him to be, and more. He’s closing Gitmo and banning torture, for example, and yesterday he reversed another of Bush’s more egregious policies, one especially harmful to women:
President Obama struck down a rule Friday [...]
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Filed under: Foreign Policy, Michael Stickings, Women's Issues
Sens. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) flexed their muscles, shook their rattles, and told President-elect Barack Obama not to tread upon them.
“I don’t believe in the executive power trumping everything,” Reid, the Senate’s majority leader, told the political newspaper, The Hill. He said he believed “in our Constitution, three separate but equal branches [...]
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Filed under: Bush Admin, Congress, In The News, Walter Brasch
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