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Posts on Thursday, December 4, 2008

Why do Feinstein and Wyden sound much different on the torture issue now?
The two Senators spent the year emphatically insisting that the CIA's interrogators comply with the Army Field Manual. With Democrats in control, they're not so emphatic any longer
Both parties cheerlead still more loudly for Israel's war
As the body count in Gaza piles up, the U.S. Congress acts overwhelmingly to insinuate itself into the war with blind support for Israel.
America then and now
It's now commonplace for our political and media elites to explicitly renounce the principles of justice which the U.S. long led the world in advocating.
The DOJ pursues the "real criminal" in the NSA spying scandal
While the high-level lawbreakers are protected from consequences by our political class, only the courageous whistle-blower is subject to criminal prosecution.
Discussing Israel/Gaza on right-wing talk radio
I had an unexpectedly substantive discussion of the Middle East and the "Islamic threat" on "The Hugh Hewitt Show" last night.

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