John Yoo: If the Torture Report Is True, CIA Officers Are at Legal Risk By Conor Friedersdorf A surprising admission by an attorney who was instrumental in enabling the Bush Administration’s brutal interrogation practices[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Hypocrisy’
December 17th, 2014 - 2:50 pm § in Misc.
Republican HYPOCRISY
High-Ranking McCain Staffer Lobbied For Repeal Of Cuba Sanctions Talking Points Memo | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics Read More: John McCain Cuba, Mccain Staffer Cuba Lobby, John Green Mcccain Staffer, Mccain Staffer Cuba, John Mccain Cuba Sanctions, Mccain Cuba Sanctions, Politics News A high-ranking[...]
CHINA: #1
China has just overtaken the United States as the world’s largest economy. Meanwhile China is evicting the last of the demonstrators in Hong Kong. Who is still on Hong Kong’s streets? Nobel Laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz explains what this means in Vanity Fair. Excerpts: “2014 was [...]
December 11th, 2014 - 2:20 am § in Uncategorized
White Guys and White Cops Debate “Is it a gun?”
Imagine if the guys with the “not a firearm” were black![...]
December 9th, 2014 - 11:11 am § in Hypocrisy
Sharpton, Inc.
NY Police Murder Victim’s Family Bans Al Sharpton From Funeral — “Who Made You Our Family… Were they right? Family Of Unarmed Police Shooting Victim Tell Al Sharpton To Stay Away From His Services The family of a Brooklyn man — shot by a rookie…[...]
Speaking the truth!
Mark Udall threatens to disclose the truth about torture The Senate Intelligence Committee, led by Dianne Feinstein of California, is soon expected to release its summary of the so-called CIA Torture Report, the committee’s four-year-long investigation into the CIA’s Bush-era torture practices[...]
December 3rd, 2014 - 2:04 pm § in Hypocrisy
FACEBOOK: on those damn illegal immigrants
Joseph Larson I know a farmer in WI. that pays cash for Mexican help. One night some guys came out to the barn and took all the money these guys had thinking they would get the weeks wages. Actually they got way more than that, they got the money saved up for a once a […][...]
November 28th, 2014 - 12:37 pm § in Environment, Misc.
What Climate Change?
GLACIER NAT’L PARK’S FUTURE: NO GLACIERS DEA / W. BUSS via Getty Images[...]
How NOT to make peace in Palestine
Last night at Drinking Liberally a new friend, Mary, and I had the usual liberal discussion about the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. Mary, insisted that the US and Israel are guilty of rejecting multiple offers of peace. I told her that no such offer has been made and that, worse, Hamas insists[...]