Barack Obama may have once again banned torture as U.S. policy, but Bush torture apologist John Yoo is once again defending the egregious practice. From the WSJ:
In issuing these executive orders, Mr. Obama is returning America to the failed law enforcement approach to fighting terrorism that prevailed before Sept. 11, 2001. He’s also drying up […]
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This is all I need to say:
Happy Saturday, folks. Eat it before it becomes illegal.
Hat Tip: Radley Balko
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Dave Cameron, the head of the non-conservative Tory Party, has addressed the great and 'good' at Davos, and as usual he says things that actually mean the opposite of the words looked at in isolation: He will say: "We must stand up for business because it's businesses, not governments or politicians, that create jobs, wealth and opportunity, it's businesses that drive innovation, and choice, and help families achieve a higher standard of living for a…
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To the right is a photoshop found at Gawker which illustrates a relevant question. Over at reason, Matt Welch makes reference to a posting at DailyKos which “compares Republican non-assimilationists to The Borg.”
Dear Americans THIS is the Republican party you are left with… a crew of people (?) unwilling to defend the needs of their […]
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Interestingly, this new development that was supposed to bring in so much revenue and jobs to the City of New London remains an empty lot. The city has lost a tax base and the only new jobs which were created were for demolition. Here’s hoping that New London does not recover from this immoral stealing […]
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Judicial Watch, which was a thorn in the side of the Clinton Administration back in the 1990’s, has filed a lawsuit alleging that Hillary Clinton is ineligible to serve as Secretary of State:
WASHINGTON — A conservative watchdog group filed a lawsuit Thursday arguing that Hillary Rodham Clinton cannot legally serve as secretary of state, even […]
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So let me ask you, what do you think would stimulate the economy more:
$819 billion of taxpayer money and bad debt on our national credit cards; distributed via political favoritism, cronyism, and cherry picking of favored causes
$2,676 in the pocket of every single man, woman, and child in America
$7,122 for each and every household in […]
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Eric Arthur Blair famously said “The word FASCISM has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies
“something not desirable.“.
In this he was referring (among other things) to the tendency of those on the left to call anything which restricted their tendencies or desires in any way fascists; which in such usage has been […]
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I’m shocked, shocked I tell you!
More than one million French workers downed tools yesterday in the first general strike to hit a major industrialised nation since the start of the global financial crisis.
Unions said more than two million public and private sector workers took to the streets across France to protest against President Nicolas Sarkozy’s […]
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Fox News Reports:
Illinois senators stripped Gov. Rod Blagojevich of power Thursday in the final act of a political drama that handed the reins of state government to his estranged lieutenant governor, Pat Quinn, and likely will end Blagojevich’s career in politics.
Senators voted unanimously to convict Blagojevich and bar him from holding political office in the […]
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