11 days ago by x_eleven

Finally, a Democrat tells the truth. This, however, was purely accidental. Barney Frank got flustered, and simply forgot to lie. That happens when you can't keep your story straight. Barney Committing the Truth Here, we see him admit that the Dems want to increase government interferance, and, by ex ...

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14 days ago by Flap

Day By Day by Chris Muir Yes, Chris Halloween is coming up next Saturday, Obama is President and isn’t it scarey? Speaking about tolerances, did you know today President Obama finished his 24th round of golf since being in the White House. This was accomplished in less than a year. Does anyone reali ...

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85 days ago by x_eleven

This time, it's from Dick Cheney. He already has a deal with Simon and Schuster for a "memoir", due in 2011. Here, Mr. Cheney reams his former boss: George W. Bush. Like every other asshole politician, he blames others for failings that were strictly his own. "In the second term, he felt Bush was mo ...

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190 days ago by jbc

I can’t find any particular part of this essay by Gary Kamiya to excerpt — the whole thing is too awesome to lend itself to summarizing: America’s necessary dark night of the soul. I think Kamiya’s argument is a compelling response to Obama’s “we need to look forward” position. Yes, we have many oth ...

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194 days ago by jbc

Lately I’ve been noticing a couple of people (shcb in the comments here, and my boss’s boss at work, who is the nicest guy in the world, but who suffers from an incurable delusion that Fox News really is fair and balanced) going around saying that the Bush administration’s use of torture produced lo ...

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197 days ago by jbc

There are a number of important questions about the Bush administration’s use of torture: Was it, in fact, torture? (Clearly yes. Anyone who maintains otherwise gets flagged by me as someone whose views can be safely ignored in the future.) Was it moral? Was it legal? Was it effective? Note that the ...

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199 days ago by jbc

McClatchy’s Jonathan S. Landay reminds us of what it was like when we had real journalists. From Report: Abusive tactics used to seek Iraq-al Qaida link: “There were two reasons why these interrogations were so persistent, and why extreme methods were used,” the former senior intelligence official s ...

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