The Paul Bunyan of National Security

The trouble with Dick Cheney is that he believes his own tall tales — and he wants everyone else to believe them, too: Reporting from Washington — In the bitter debate over the nation’s counter-terrorism policies, former Vice President Dick Cheney has introduced an assertion that...

Cheney: Still Cherry-Picking After All These Years

Jonathan Landay of McClatchy goes through the long list of lies, distortions, and convenient omissions in Cheney’s “national security” speech yesterday: In his address to the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative policy organization in Washington, Cheney said that the techniques...

Is Waterboarding Torture? Ask Mancow Muller.

Via Joe Gandelman at TMV: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUkj9pjx3H0&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] Kudos to Mancow Muller for his courage and his...

Republicans on Slavery and Patrimony

Today, the Republican National Committee attacked Barack Obama for a speech he gave in 2001 in which he said that the Constitution’s acceptance of slavery was a fundamental flaw in that document. The RNC attack came in a tweet that was timed to coincide with Obama’s national security speech at...

Marching Toward the Dustbin of History

Republicans in Congress have come to their senses about officially labeling the Democratic Party as the “Democratic Socialist Party.” Members of the Republican National Committee appear to have reached a compromise that would let GOP leaders avoid a possible dispute over a controversial...