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Back in 2002, Binyam Mohamed was captured in Karachi, Pakistan for collaborating in an alleged terrorist plot with actual terrorist Jose Padilla. After spending time in prisons in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Morocco, Mohamed was finally transferred to Gitmo in 2004 as part of extraordinary rendition, and all the while he was tortured repeatedly ( Read more... )

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Obama further frustrates me:

The Obama administration said Friday that it would retain a wildlife rule issued in the last days of the Bush administration that says the government cannot invoke the Endangered Species Act to restrict emissions of greenhouse gases threatening the polar bear and its habitat ( Read more... )

NO NO DON'T TOUCH ME I DON'T KNOW WHERE YOU'VE BEEN

• Treasury Secratary Geithner has finally worked-out his economic plan and it's made Wall Street feel the Change(tm). However, the news that Geithner and many of his aides had been communicating with AIG execs for months when Geithner was president of the New York Fed prior to his nomination has ( Read more... )

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I don't normally go to WorldNetWingNutDaily, the bizarre conservative site that hosts of the ramblings of Chuck Norris among others, for the obvious reason that everyone there is completely insane. But, thanks to Ed Brayton, I'm forming a the same attitude about it that I have against conspiracy theorists and pseudoscientists: strange creatures in ( Read more... )