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Cleverness is no more. This is a dumb Britain | Jeremy Clarkson - Times Online
According to the columnist, America is no longer the only Western country where intelligence and learning are frowned upon while stupidity and ignorance are exalted. He's got a point, though I think he over-states the extent to which Britain has been infected.
Ahmadinejad Assails Obama; Opposition Defiant - NYTimes.com
Iranian President Ahmadinejad (who learned a lot from the Bush-Cheney regime about foreign quarrels and stolen elections) compares President Obama to Mr. Bush. A more apt comparison is between Mr. Ahmadinejad and Mr. Bush.
How ABC Interview Shaped a Torture Debate - NYTimes.com
The CIA plants an interview that sanitizes its torture practices, and we're supposed to believe that it's going to sue its mouthpiece for talking? How gullible do they think we are? (Don't answer that.)
Torture? Just Walk On By … - The Opinionator Blog - NYTimes.com
Reviews the various apologia for torture offered by Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney's defenders.
Bush Torture Memos - The Opinionator Blog - NYTimes.com
Discussion of the Bush-era memos providing strained legal rationalizations for torturing prisoners. Released on 16. April 2009 by the Obama administration.
John McTiernan Fights His Court Case With a New Documentary - NYTimes.com
Another victim of Bush-era political prosecutions fights back with a self-produced movie documentary.
Third of Americans suspect 9-11 government conspiracy | ScrippsNews
Thirty-six percent of respondents overall said it is "very likely" or "somewhat likely" that federal officials either participated in the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon or took no action to stop them "because they wanted the United States to go to war in the Middle East."
"One out of three sounds high, but that may very well be right," said Lee Hamilton, former vice chairman of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (also called the 9/11 commission.) His congressionally appointed investigation concluded that federal officials bungled their attempts to prevent, but did not participate in, the attacks by al Qaeda five years ago.
"A lot of people I've encountered believe the U.S. government was involved," Hamilton said. "Many say the government planned the whole thing. Of course, we don't think the evidence leads that way at all."
The poll also found that 16 percent of Americans speculate that secretly planted explosives, not burning passenger jets, were the real reason the massive twin towers of the World Trade Center collapsed.
Forced From Executive Pay to Hourly Wage - NYTimes.com
Highly-qualified professionals are being forced into manual labor, are cashing in their retirement savings, and are losing their houses. But Bush, Cheney, and the other "masters of the universe" who caused the problem are doing just fine, thank you very m
Taylor's Son Faces 147 Years for Overseas Torture - NYTimes.com
When will the Bush-Cheney gang be called to account?
S.E.C. Issues Mea Culpa on Fraud Case - NYTimes.com
The Bush Regime's deliberate policy of under-funding and under-staffing regulatory agencies, and of having anti-regulatory shills in charge of them, bears its predictable fruit.
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