Getting Down to Basic Truths

Gawker, that rock-solid investigative reporting site (just check out the article teasers at the top if you doubt their reportorial chops), puts up an article saying that Erich “Mancow” Muller faked his waterboarding. It wasn’t a “hoax,” exactly, according to Gawker’s...

Matthew Alexander: Torture Has Cost Us American Lives

If a picture is worth a thousand words, this video is worth at least a hundred thousand: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfYov5o5_2s&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] Via The Huffington...

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...

Nancy Pelosi, Congress, and the American Public

Despite what Republicans in Congress, right-wing bloggers, and conservative media pundits would have us believe, Nancy Pelosi is not about to be thrown under the bus by her House colleagues — nor, it seems, has the sincere Republican effort to make Pelosi responsible for the CIA’s interrogation...

Frank Rich to Pres. Obama: Can’t Stand Athwart History, Yelling “Stop!”

Or, as Bonnie Raitt said, “Can’t stop a river, once it’s burst its banks. …”: To paraphrase Al Pacino in “Godfather III,” just when we thought we were out, the Bush mob keeps pulling us back in. And will keep doing so. No matter how hard President Obama tries to turn the...