The Other Scott Horton (no relation), international human rights lawyer, heroic crusader against the American government’s use of torture and author of the renowned No Comment blog at the Harper’s magazine Website, explains how the Bush/Cheney administration continues to fight for their right to torture people, the roles played by former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and likely replacement Michael Chertoff in crafting U.S. torture policy, the overall politicization of the Justice...

Bush has virtually declared war on Iran. "Iran’s pursuit of technology that could lead to nuclear weapons threatens to put a region already known for instability and violence under the shadow of a nuclear holocaust. "Iran’s actions threaten the security of nations everywhere, and the United States is rallying friends and allies to isolate Iran’s regime to impose economic sanctions. We will confront this danger before it is too late." And, "I will take all actions necessary to protect our...

A beauty pageant winner from South Carolina was asked the following question: "Recent polls have shown a fifth of Americans can't locate the United States on a world map. Why do you think this is?" South Carolina answered as follows: I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because, uh, some people out there in our nation don't have maps, and, uh, I believe that our education like such as in South Africa and, uh, the Iraq everywhere like, such as and I believe that they...

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I am the evil one.

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Oceania has been at war with Eurasia as long as I can remember ... right? Or was it East Asia? I can't keep up any more.

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by Gareth Porter Huffington Post George Bush's invocation of the "killing fields" in Cambodia to try to bolster his failing argument for an indefinite continuation of the Iraq occupation was a reference to the extreme right's decades-old rant that U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam caused the bloodbath in Pol Pot's Cambodia. That argument makes a hash of the history of the Vietnam era, but maybe it's a good thing that he has brought it up now. The media and the blogosphere need to go back over how...

Fred Reed for Dictator!

One day this man's headless corpse will be hung upside-down, beaten and burned by an angry mob. Not until he's destroyed our country though.

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