Michele Bachmann: A Byproduct of Oxygen Deprivation

Correct me if I’m wrong, but don’t you have to have at least an eighth-grade education to be a member of the House of Representatives? [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAaDVOd2sRQ[/youtube]

Torture Did Not Make Us Safer

Apologists for what is euphemistically called “enhanced interrogation techniques” who claim that the use of harsh, coercive physical and mental tactics — i.e., torture — induced high-value detainees to give up valuable information, prevented terrorist attacks, and made us safer, are...

Now playing at Cognitive Dissonance theater!

Wingnuts are gloating over a story reported by a venerable institution of journalism, the, uh, Hollywood Reporter, which details CHAOS! and PATHOS! at a GE shareholder meeting.  What’s the big, uber-important, non-wanktastic/rightwing bukkake-esque issue du jour?!  The political bias of GE subsidiary...

Ann Coulter’s Mother Died. What a Perfect Opportunity To Attack Liberals!

Trust Ann Coulter to use a column about her own mother who just died as a vehicle to attack liberals.

Continuing Developments in Torture-gate

When the Obama administration released the OLC torture memos last Thursday, both AG Eric Holder and Pres. Obama said that the CIA agents who carried out these abusive interrogations would not be prosecuted, as long as they acted within a good-faith reliance on the guidelines set forth in the memos. On...