“Bill Bennett is a hypocrite, a loathsome fungus on the tree of American politics, a man who has worked unceasingly to make America a worse place–when he’s not publishing the work of others under his own name, or rolling the dice at Las Vegas while claiming that America’s poor would be rich if only they … Continue reading YGLESIAS AWARD NOMINEE
That was quick. Remember that appalling revelation that U.S. soldiers were posting pictures of mutilated corpses of dead Iraqis on a website in order to get free access to amateur porn? It was clearly a violation of the Geneva Conventions, and a horrifying insight into the culture that has been allowed to percolate in the … Continue reading INQUIRY OVER
“There was an infamous experiment over 50 years ago where an authority figure in a lab coat instructed volunteers to apply voltage to a test subject seated in another room when that subject answered their questions erroneously. Unbeknownst to the volunteers, the test subject was part of the experiment, and would scream out in mock … Continue reading EMAIL OF THE DAY I
The Washington Post, which has been exemplary in its coverage and editorial policy on this, reprints Fishback’s letter today. Read it. It’s posted in full below. Read the Human Rights Watch report. Stop looking the other way. Fight back. Demand new legislation to stop this. Demand an independent investigation that can find the real culprits, … Continue reading THE HERO’S LETTER
The latest horrifying torture revelations give his proposed anti-torture legislation a push. This is a real war within Republicanism right now: the decency and honor of John McCain and Lindsey Graham versus the incompetence and brutality of Cheney and Rumsfeld. And in army captain Ian Fishback, we have a real American hero. In his words: … Continue reading McCAIN MOVES
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