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Blog Entries by Marty Kaplan from 03/2008

Torture Is Magic

| Posted 03.02.2008 | Politics
Read More: Guantanamo, CIA Torture, John McCain, American Anti-Torture Act, Abu Ghraib, Torture, Bush, Politics News

What could persuade a victim of North Vietnamese interrogation techniques to abandon his principled stand against torture and side with the architects of Abu Ghraib, Gitmo and extraordinary rendition?

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Why Has Joe Scarborough Rolled Up His Sleeves?

| Posted 03.04.2008 | Media
Read More: Chuck Todd, Joe Scarborough, Tom Brokaw, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Media, Cable News, 2008 Election, Media News

When did the Fourth Estate become the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse? Who hired these media personalities to be the hosts of some nightmarish Democracy Gong Show?

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It's All My Fault

| Posted 03.09.2008 | Politics
Read More: John Edwards, John McCain, Hillary Clinton, Chris Dodd, Joe Biden, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Politics News

I was for Clinton, because if Obama couldn't effectively counterpunch with her, how could he handle the Republican slime machine. Then I was for Obama, because I'll be damned if I'll let the superdelegates determine the outcome of this.

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My Goat Ate the Economy

| Posted 03.16.2008 | Politics
Read More: Politics News

The subprime mortgage quagmire, the Bear Stearns bailout, and the foreclosure fiasco are the foreordained outcome of the Republican ideology which holds that regulation of corporate financial behavior is the domestic equivalent of Islamofascism.

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