From the Washington Post today:We learned four years ago that a confession extracted under torture by Egyptian authorities from Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, a captured terror suspect who had been rendered to Egypt by the CIA, was the sole source for arguments Bush made in a key pre-Iraq war speech in October 2002. "We've learned that Iraq has trained al ( Read more... )

So an article published early this week about how the Russian company that owns the company that runs livejournal.com had cut a bunch of positions and might possibly be shutting the site down spurred some insanity by a number of people, myself included, who overran the ljbook.com site in an attempt to archive all entries in everyone's journals. I ( Read more... )

I thought Kristof's recent article about Greg Mortenson, a man who has been building schools in Afghanistan and Pakistan whose primary aim is to educate women, was particularly insightful and revealing. The United States has basically stopped investing in education. Yes, we continue to spend a lot of money on it each year. But those dollar ( Read more... )

Senator Dodd is pissed.

I'm so mad about this memo I can barely stand it ( Read more... )

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January 10, 2008
2005 Use of Gas by Blackwater Leaves Questions
By JAMES RISEN

[SourceWASHINGTON - The helicopter was hovering over a Baghdad checkpoint into the Green Zone, one typically crowded with cars, Iraqi civilians and United States military personnel ( Read more... )

Why I Believe Bush Must Go
Nixon Was Bad. These Guys Are Worse.

[SourceBy George McGovern ( Read more... )

These fuckers can't even stomach sticking around in their own failed messianic administration.

Homeland Security Advisor Steps Down

...probably to "spend more time with her family" although we all know that means "to cash in as a consultant for Republican Welfare Corporation Blackwater."

All of them are cowards. Fuck 'em.

"Why do we wear pins? Because our country is under attack!"
- Sean Hannity [source]

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Oh Sean, you do go on. Why not "join the army" or "conserve energy" or "buy Undeclared War BondsTM" because our country is under attack? No? Too much "sacrifice" and not enough "recognition?" Good for you, Shawney. You ( Read more... )