Unqualified Offerings

By Thoreau
I have aimed enough fire at torture apologists.  Let me now offer some support for defense attorneys:
If a defense attorney should have the task of defending somebody accused of participating in torture (be it the guy who poured the water down the throat or the person who ordered it at whatever level) I will [...]

By Thoreau
First, I completely echo IOZ’s take on this David Broder article.
But I would go further and react to this fascinating little tidbit in the article:
Looming beyond the publicized cases of these relatively low-level operatives is the fundamental accountability question: What about those who approved of their actions? If accountability is the standard, then it [...]

UPDATE: The confusion here is mine. The Rand study does indeed say that as of 2060, the US decline in lifespan would be 0.7 years. I carelessly confused two 0.7s.
ORIGINAL: Megan McArdle writes about the difficulty of keeping healthcare statistics straight and illustrates by example. In the first post, she quotes a Rand study estimating [...]