Site Meter

Posts on Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Various items
The ACLU hosts an online torture symposium. The GOP parodies itself with a new ad campaign featuring dancing San Francisco gays. Joe Lieberman previews the attack he’ll launch at the RNC.
Michael O’Hanlon’s defense of his pro-war record
The Brookings war cheerleader announces: “I believe Ken Pollack and I have been generally proven right by events.”
The Right and mainstream America: a universe apart
New polls conclusively show that the desperate smears of Obama — along with increased exposure to Sarah Palin — are backfiring on John McCain.
Salon Radio: ACLU’s Jonathan Hafetz on Guantanamo cases
Why is the Bush administration continuing to imprison 17 detainees in Guantánamo who it acknowledges are innocent? And what is the latest on the president’s power to imprison U.S. citizens as “enemy combatants”?
Dan Balz’s corrupted journalistic “balance”
The attempt to equate “character attacks” as coming from “both sides” in the campaign is not “balance”; it’s just false.
Major shock: Eavesdropping powers abused without oversight
Two NSA linguists disclose that hundreds of innocent Americans had their private, intimate telephone calls recorded and transcribed by Bush’s illegal spying program.

Archives

Recent Posts

Calendar

October 2008
SuMoTuWeThFrSa
1234
567891011
12131415161718
19202122232425
262728293031

Glenn Greenwald drawing