New Security Action released this video over the holidays as part of a concerted effort to call for the closing of the prison at Guantanamo Bay.

What do you call a trial where the outcome is rigged from the get-go? Where the rules have been tilted heavily in the prosecution's favor? Where the burden of proof is low, the chance of conviction is high and the rules diverge from those that would be used on ordinary...

A sign outside of a Church in Greenwich, New York, in April, 2008. While the Obama administration pledged to close Guantanamo Bay Prison by January of 2010, it has since said it would miss the deadline.

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After writing two stories on my Web site, The Black Snob, about the advertising/modeling industry suddenly scratching their heads and having their worlds turned upside down by clients wanting a more "ethnic" look...

The words are startling.

He starts out with a quote, an allusion to John McCain being like the queen in Alice In Wonderland wildly shouting "Off with their heads!" at every perceived tormentor, howling it over our financial crisis. And conservative columnist George Will's critique doesn't get any better from...

When it comes to celebrity, we Americans have an obsession of smashing the names of famous couples together like Bennifer, Billary, Bennifer II, TomKat, Vaughniston, McGosling and of course the robust and insane sounding Brangelina. (My favorite because it sounds like a hearty breakfast cereal.) But when it comes to...

Sometimes with all the attention paid to Barack Obama, the Clintons and soaring gas prices I forget that John McCain is running. Seriously. He's become the Jan Brady (Obama! Obama! Obama!) of presidential candidates. Or worse, the...

The following is a snark filled rant/column by The Black Snob on a crippling addiction sweeping the American press -- Clinton Addiction. The affects are crippling on campaign coverage as a gaggle of junkies remain obsessed over the junior senator from New York and "The Comeback Kid."

I'm aware...

There was a time some bristled when his name was thrown around so liberally. A time when Jerry Seinfeld received the finger of shame for pop fictions like "The Soup Nazi." Critics said it belittled who the Nazis were. It belittled the pain World War II caused. And it belittled...

I don't know if Abraham Lincoln could have run for president in this environment.

And when I say environment, I mean the pious air of pandering that has been wafting through the air before this campaign season even began.

Although I consider myself a Christian I cringe every...