Senator Kerry ( Read more... )

One of the most frustrating things about watching politics is the complete lack of decent rebuttals. Watching Hardball right now, a guest from the right is repeatedly claiming that drilling in ANWR will make us energy independent, while the guest from the left doesn't point out that the oil in ANWR could, at best, provide a few percent of our ( Read more... )

To the Honorable John W. Olver ( Read more... )

I received a response from David Stout to my earlier message regarding his unskeptical reporting of claims that Iran is funding Hamas and the Taliban. In this first message, Mr. Stout appears to be referring to an op-ed piece by Roger Cohen from November 2007: Afghanistan at the Brink.

I appreciate your thoughtful note, and I concede that I should ( Read more... )

I am disturbed by your reporting, on April 26, in the article "Joint Chiefs Chairman Assails Iran’s Role in Iraq". In particular, you repeat, without comment, Admiral Mullen's claims that Iran is funding Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Taliban. While Iran funding Hezbollah is reasonable, both of them being Shi'a groups, the other two groups are Sunni - ( Read more... )

"In 2006, the Information Policy Action Committee (IPac) launched a campaign to educate lawmakers -- the people who make rules about the Internet and think it's made from a "series of tubes" -- about technology and copyright. To get their attention, we asked our supporters to help us buy video iPods for key Senators, which we then loaded with ( Read more... )

Oh my! What a surprise! Saddam Hussein's sentence was handed down yesterday! How coincidentally close to the US elections! I sure am surprised! Are you surprised?! I know I am!

Congressman Markey ( Read more... )

It wasn't enough for us to torture them ( Read more... )

The CIA apparently uses Eminem music as a torture technique. And yes, I am serious.

They also make them stand in cold cells (around 50 degrees F), overnight, naked, pouring cold water over them periodically. This is not torture? We have, of course, been hearing about this for years. Maybe this time people will listen.