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Truth Is "Controversial Comment"

March 14, 2011

In December of last year I wrote about the torturing of U.S. Army private Bradley Manning. Held at that point for 7 months without a trial for allegedly stealing and leaking classified information, Manning had fallen victim to the "everything has changed since 9-11" American paradigm. Today, Manning is still being tortured just as he [...]

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Stubbornly Push, Push, Pushing

March 5, 2011

"We're going to push and push and push until some larger force makes us stop," Addington said….. That's what David Addington, Dick Cheney's former chief of staff told Jack Goldsmith, head of the DOJ's Office of Legal Counsel, when the two men clashed over the power of the "unitary executive". The power of then president, [...]

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Weighing "The Necessity Of Detention"

December 22, 2010

Of all of the policy differences I had with the still-unindicted Bush-Cheney regime, it was the "war on terror" extremities which were the most unAmerican and criminal. Extraordinary rendition…..kidnapping someone in one country and transporting that person to another country to be tortured. Torture……sleep deprivation, heat and cold deprivation, hanging from arms by chains, being [...]

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Torturing Bradley Manning

December 16, 2010

One of the most regrettable practices our nation has embraced and defended over the last 10 years is the practice of torturing those we have incarcerated. Nothing is more cowardly than punishing a person who can not defend himself…..either physically or psychologically. The moment the news leaked to the world that America had adopted torture [...]

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Obama Scolds His Base….Again

December 8, 2010

Obama scolding the very people who put him in office….. So this notion that somehow we are willing to compromise too much reminds me of the debate that we had during health care. This is the public option debate all over again. So I pass a signature piece of legislation where we finally get health [...]

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Travesty Of Justice In Nebraska?

November 5, 2010

There is a significant injustice going on out in Nebraska. One that needs everyone's attention. That's how egregious the injustice is. If injustices like the one currently being carried out in Lincoln, Nebraska are allowed to continue, then no American male will ever be safe….ever again. A 22 year old man from Lincoln was suspicious [...]

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Gibbs Goes Winger

August 11, 2010

Robert Gibbs throws a Sarah Palin-like temper tantrum…. “I hear these people saying he’s like George Bush. Those people ought to be drug tested,” Gibbs said. “I mean, it’s crazy.” March 12, 2010, Blog of Mass Destruction: Different President, Same Lawlessness:"President Obama, despite his many campaign attacks on the "lawless" Bush-Cheney regime, has continued those [...]

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Israel…..Foolishly Out Of Control

June 1, 2010

Sometimes a sentence is more than words…. "Where knowledge is limited, and the desire to learn the complex reality doesn’t exist, public opinion can be shaped by whoever generates the most powerful symbols." That sentence was written to describe the foolish and brutal action by Israel Sunday as Israeli commandos illegally boarded a Turkish humanitarian [...]

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Obama Broadens "War on Terror"

May 27, 2010

From the NY Times….. The top American commander in the Middle East has ordered a broad expansion of clandestine military activity in an effort to disrupt militant groups or counter threats in Iran, Saudi Arabia, Somalia and other countries in the region, according to defense officials and military documents. The secret directive, signed in September [...]

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Obama Disappoints Again

May 10, 2010

Barack Obama's campaign theme as he ran for president was "change we can believe in." He delivered that message in a compelling fashion and tens of millions of Americans responded. After Obama was elected by a clear mandate from the American people, an incoherent, angry astroturf far right movement developed. The Tea Party was born. [...]

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