Of course he would! He’d pull out fingernails, then chop off fingers, one knuckle at a time. And whatever else it takes to get suspects to talk. At least, that’s what Virginia state senator Steve Martin says he would do for God and Country. And he has plenty of fans who “like”[...]
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December 22nd, 2014 - 9:17 am § in Politics
NY Times editorial demands prosecution of torturers
In a blistering editorial today, the New York Times editorial board said the U.S. government must come to terms, “legally and morally,” with the torture of terrorism suspects under the Bush administration, and demanded the Obama administration appoint a special prosecutor to conduct a &#[...]
December 20th, 2014 - 9:08 pm § in Politics
Go figure …
“The jobless rate, at 10 percent at its peak after Mr. Obama took office, is down to 5.8 percent with nearly 11 million new jobs. The annual deficit, which reached 10.1 percent of the gross domestic product, the measure of the economy, has fallen below 3 percent of G.D.P., the level most econo[...]
Rightwing backflips
The GOP attorneys general of Nebraska and Oklahoma like to argue (their) states have a right to “nullify” (i.e., ignore) federal laws, except when they want to argue that federal laws nullify (some other state’s) state laws. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/12/18/1352822/-Nullifi[...]
GOP retaliates against IRS by cutting $350 million from its budget and forcing 13,000 layoffs
Hidden away in the $1.1 trillion spending bill passed by the GOP-controlled House this week, and now being considered by the Senate, is a $350 million cut in the IRS budget that a GOP congressman admitted was payback for what many Republicans claim was partisan targeting of conservative groups but m[...]
President Obama on Immigration
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Obama Puts Putin in Check.
PUTIN, 2005: “Negotiating with Obama is like playing chess with a pigeon. The pigeon knocks over all the pieces, shits on the board and then struts around like it won the game.” RUSSIAN JOKE, 2015: Heard the one about Vladimir Putin? The oil price and the ruble’s value against the do[...]
Time for real progress