Unqualified Offerings

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Q (Pat Lang):
What are we saying?  Is it our position that international law applies to eveyone but us and that it does not apply to us because we are "special?"
Are we that [...]

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Node 1: Strip-searching children
Node 2: Learned helplessness
I see patterns stabilizing!

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Henry Clay at The New Majority has a plan for helping the GOP “appeal to homosexual citizens.” (Via Balloon Juice.) The plan itself is amusingly naive. Clay argues that Republicans should support some changes to [...]

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FAIL.
Via the Agitator.

By Thoreau
I’m going to be in Vancouver for a conference next week, arriving Sunday afternoon and leaving Thursday morning.  The conference is in the downtown area, and I won’t have a rental car, so my options are somewhat limited.  However, I’ll have Sunday afternoon and perhaps an evening or two to do some looking around.  [...]

By Thoreau
Walnuts prevent breast cancer in mice, according to a new study.  See, I kept telling everyone that baklava is a health food, but they wouldn’t believe me.  Well, here’s the evidence!
This is the most important piece of science since the discovery of antioxidants in chocolate.  So get your mother some chocolate-covered walnuts for Mother’s [...]

By Thoreau
The details of this article are hazier than the lead-in suggests, but it looks like the people who “just gave orders” (as opposed to the people who “just followed orders”) might not be out of the woods yet, as far as prosecution goes.
If Obama prosecutes the officials who authorized torture, I will personally knock [...]

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Via Radley, the dots now officially connect:
“While we were there a large part of the time we were focused on trying to establish a link between al Qaida and Iraq and we were not being successful in establishing [...]

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Gene Healy takes it nice and slow for people.

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Kevin Drum, among others, says, “I wonder who leaked [the Jane Harman story].” I’d guess the intelligence community hasn’t gotten over Chas Freeman yet. The question is how far this will go. If we get into [...]