John writes: I have to admit to being surprised that the right seems to not only have instinctively rushed to defend torture (when, of course, they are not busy insisting that it isn’t torture), but now they are attempting to shift the debate into one in which we discuss the relative merits of torture (look …
It Is Kind of Amazing
Larison: One of the things that has kept me from saying much over the last week or so is my sheer amazement that there are people who seriously pose such questions and expect to be answered with something other than expressions of bafflement and moral horror. Something else that has kept me from writing much …
Unhinged
If, during the press conference last night, you heard President Obama address the stem cell question, and you are a sane person, you heard this: QUESTION: Thank you, Mr. President. In your remarks on stem-cell research earlier this month, you talked about a majority consensus in determining whether or not this is the right thing …
Collateral Damage
At the end of this WaPo piece, readers might learn what the Chas Freeman issue was really all about: Caroline Glick, a columnist in the Jerusalem Post specializing in national security issues, had a different take. She described what she called “disturbing things about the climate in Washington these days.” The foremost was that Blair’s …
How To Be A Hack and Secure a Lifetime Position at the NRO
Andy McCarthy in 2004 discussing the 9/11 commission: Analyzing the intelligence failures attendant to 9/11 is a twofold process. First, the counterterror system designed during the Clinton administration, which was at the helm for eight years while we were under attack by militant Islam, was a prescription for disaster: reducing counterterrorism to a strict law …
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Soon To Be Former Soldier Raises Birth Certificate Issue
Wingnut Daily brings the goods: A U.S. soldier on active duty in Iraq has called President Obama an “impostor” in a statement in which he affirmed plans to join as plaintiff in a challenge to Obama’s eligibility to be commander in chief. The statement was publicized by California attorney Orly Taitz who, along with her …
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These Guys Kill Me
Apparently Andy McCarthy has ended his birth certificate fetish and conceded that President Obama is, in fact, and American, and is now kvetching because Keith Olbermann was part of the Super Bowl coverage. Got that straight? After years of Republicans ridiculing Olbermann’s Countdown because he is nothing but a washed up sportscaster, McCarthy is pissy …