iPhone app iPad app Android phone app Android tablet app

Entries by Harry Shearer from 02/2010

In Obama's Budget, a Trickle of Money for Louisiana's Disappearing Coast

| Posted 02.03.2010 | Politics
Read More: Lousiana Coastal Wetlands, New Orleans Recovery, Great Lakes, New Orleans, Obama Budget Priorities, Obama Budget 2010, Obama Budget, Barack Obama, Politics News

The $35.6 million requested for South Louisiana is one-tenth the money requested in the budget for the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative. The Great Lakes? Are they dying?

Read Whole Story

Wait a Minute -- If It's a War, Aren't You Supposed to Kill Them?

| Posted 02.14.2010 | Politics
Read More: Military Tribunals, Detention Policy, War on Terror, Politics News

If it's a war and you find an enemy on the battlefield, you kill him. Opting in the first instance to detain and interrogate someone, on the other hand, is what you're doing if you're running a criminal investigation.

Read Whole Story

The U.S. Has Been Torturing. Case Closed -- Literally

| Posted 02.17.2010 | Politics
Read More: Guantanamo Detainees, Torture, Politics News

Defenders of "enhanced interrogation techniques" have continually insisted that the treatment does not cross the line into the forbidden land of torture. But now we have some hard evidence that it does.

Read Whole Story