Who Are The Four Afghans Released From Guantanamo?
Four Afghans recently transferred to the custody of the Afghan government demonstrate the incompetence of the Bush administration, who arbitrary packed Gitmo with "Mickey Mouse" prisoners.
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The Obama Doctrine: Pen, Sword and Soap Box
For some people, the assent of the Obama Doctrine will be uncomfortable: it's designed for a world rendered in shades of gray, not the black and white of easy demagoguery. Nevertheless, subtle should not be confused with weak.
A Gitmo Christmas Carol: Say 'Bah Humbug' to Cheney (Video)
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. Here are some facts about the prison at Guantanamo Bay:
Bush Intentionally Let Osama bin Laden Escape, Asserts Congressman Hinchey
Congressman Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) is a progressive Democrat serving his ninth term in the U.S. House of Representatives. He is a member of the powerf...
Copenhagen Blues: Obama's Weak Hand on Climate, and the California Option
Obama has cobbled together some impressive-looking cards, including action in California. But he's nowhere near signing a Copenhagen Protocol, were one to emerge, which it will not.
Barack Obama Is a Traitor
Have we been so desensitized by the slurs against Obama that when Dick Cheney got around to saying the president committed treason, it just wasn't news anymore?
Breaking News: Cheney to Receive First-Ever Nobel Pissed Prize
Norway's venerable Nobel Foundation, responding to what it calls "an international epidemic of incivility, disrespect, and, for sure, stinko behavior" today announced it was establishing an annual Pissed Prize.
Russ Feingold, Ninja
Russ Feingold voted against the PATRIOT Act, the war in Iraq, and the rest. And two days ago, I found out he does the little things that never show up on your TV.
Obama's Lincolnesque Nobel Peace Prize
Lincoln is Obama's professed ideal. We remember Lincoln today from civics lessons and the monument in Washington, but the historical reality is that he was both soaring idealist and ruthless pragmatist.
Former Guantanamo Prosecutor Loses Job for Criticizing Military Commissions
orris Davis, the retired Air Force Colonel who served as the Chief Prosecutor of the Military Commissions at Guantánamo until 2007, has just lost his job for writing an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal.
Obama's Unavoidable Cure for the Afghanistan Cancer
Are we willing to allow eight years of mistakes and mismanagement to go unmitigated, or do we risk more lives trying to at least clean up some of the mess before we bug out?
Time for Strategic Stamina
President Obama now has a difficult sales job to perform. In essence, his message will be: we need to get in deeper to get out of Afghanistan sooner. He's right.
What Was He Thinking?
it is important to acknowledge that when Obama won the election last November he was not handed a magic wand. Instead, he was handed the shovel his predecessor had used to dig deep holes in many parts of the world.
Jon Meacham Turns Newsweek Into the Onion
Here's some advice: skip Newsweek's next issue. Read this instead. It's about Afghanistan and Tora Bora, one of the biggest mistakes of the Bush-Cheney era, which Meacham ignores in cherry picking his case for Cheney.
Teflon Dick: How Cheney Uses Media For Protection
Dick Cheney has committed unconstrained, and as yet unprosecuted offenses, that include circumventing the Constitution and lying the nation into war.
Tony Blair's Cautionary Tale For Obama
Under Blair, Britain "modernized" as "Cool Britannia," and indicators on the economy, the environment, and crime improved. Then came Iraq, the war too far.
Emergency Roadside Service
Dick Cheney may no longer have the vice-bully pulpit, but it's good to know that he hasn't lost the knack of being a bully. Rule number one: blame someone else.
Liz Cheney's Solution To Bow-Gate: Choose Dick In 2012!
Liz, for one, would never endanger America by treating an important world leader and key global ally with respect and deference. And you know who else wouldn't? Dick, that's who!
Toonblog: The Natural History Of Sarah Palin
The release of Sarah Palin's book, Going Rogue, has been an occasion of great frivolity amongst those of us on the left.
Will the GOP Nominate a Climate Change Denier in 2012?
Of the early contenders for the Republican nomination, five outright deny or question climate science, while the remaining three are opposed to all meaningful action.
New Word: Republizombie
Republizombie (re-PUB-li-zom-bee) (n) 1. Former GOP office-holder, now undead, unkillable; see Palin, S.; Cheney, D; Delay, T.; Armey, D.; Gingrich, N.
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