Dick Cheney is Crazy. Really.
We really need to begin seeing Cheney the way we see that paranoid old uncle we might have -- someone we should never ever listen to.
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Who Is This "Dick Cheeny" Guy and Why Should I Care What He Thinks?
David Rees | Posted 06.21.2009 | Comedy
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As far as I could tell, his speech was actually some weird kind of mouth-yoga where you keep returning to "9/11" position every thirty seconds.
Dick Cheney Will Protect You, and Liberals Want Your First Born
Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 06.21.2009 | Politics
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Did Cheney show a lack of commitment to national security by limiting the interrogation techniques to waterboarding?
The Cheney Dare: Indict Him for Complicity in Torture
Lanny Davis | Posted 06.19.2009 | Politics
I think it is time to take Dick Cheney up on his implicit dare and indict him for violating the 1994 federal law against torture.
Yes We Are Them and They Are Us
Roderick Spencer | Posted 06.19.2009 | World
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Until both sides have the courage to recognize themselves in each other, and in the torture pictures, debate is useless. People on the Left are just as capable of rationalizing cruelty as people on the Right.
Stephen Colbert Wants To Send Terrorists To Dick Cheney's Ranch (VIDEO)
Huffington Post | Alex Leo | Posted 06.19.2009 | Comedy
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Dick Cheney won't stop talking. He's been on a media tour of epic proportions over the past month, talking up torture and decrying Obama's policies. C...
What, Exactly, Was Pelosi Supposed to Do?
Chris Weigant | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics
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Pelosi can be defended for being in an impossible situation at the time. Even if she disagreed with the policy, there simply wasn't much for her to do about it.
Mother of U.S. Marine Waterboarded by Our Military Hits Latest Torture Excuse -- and Cheney
Greg Mitchell | Posted 06.15.2009 | Politics
A relatively new defense for waterboarding has emerged recently: Waterboarding can't be torture because we used it on "thousands" of our own troops as part of their training!
Congressman Jim Moran on Torture and Accountability
Kathleen Wells, J.D. | Posted 06.14.2009 | Politics
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Congressman Moran: Those who are culpable need to be judged by their peers and I think we need to put in place some kinds of structures to ensure that we never repeat our mistakes.
Dick Cheney: Could the Worst Vice President Ever Become the Best American Idol Judge Ever?
David Wild | Posted 06.13.2009 | Entertainment
What fourth judge could American Idol possibly add that might bring something really new and exciting to the party?
Pelosi The Enabler
Robert Scheer | Posted 06.12.2009 | Politics
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By acquiescing to the cover-up of unpleasant truths in the treatment of prisoners, Pelosi contributed to the betrayal of the ideal of public accountability that is the bedrock of our system of governance.
Cheney in 2012? It's Cheney in 2010
Matt Littman | Posted 06.12.2009 | Politics
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There are those who write that Dick Cheney should have run for President in 2008. There are those, on this Web site in particular, who say he should ...
The High Cost of Health Care
Lance Simmens | Posted 06.12.2009 | Politics
It must scare the bejezus out of the conservative right that moderation and purpose are the driving forces behind the attempt to wrest control of our health care system from an industry that has reaped enormous profits.
Can We Please See Less Dick Cheney?
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 06.11.2009 | Politics
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Sometimes powerful people need to see the inside of a prison cell for a while to come to terms with the consequences of their actions. Richard Bruce Cheney is one of those people.
Addicted to Love
Nora Ephron | Posted 06.11.2009 | Politics
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In some fabulous way, Cheney's ubiquity is an ongoing reminder of the eight years he was the key man in the administration. He gives new meaning to the words "Never Again."
Cheney To Travel Around Country In Sound Truck
Andy Borowitz | Posted 05.11.2009 | Comedy
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According to aides to the former vice president, Mr. Cheney had briefly considered starring in an IMAX film called "The Dick Cheney 3-D Experience" before settling on the less costly sound truck idea.
Wanda Sykes Punctures Cheney's Argument for Waterboarding
Gordon Marino | Posted 06.10.2009 | Politics
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Wanda Sykes performance last night at the White House Correspondents dinner was a prime example of the truth wrapped in a joke.
Clinton Pollster: Cheney Shows GOP Won't Have Repeat Of '94 Revolution
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 06.07.2009 | Politics
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Midterm elections are notoriously tricky business for the political parties of the sitting president. The drubbings experienced by Democrats in 1994 a...
Bush Official Suggests Cheney Torture Cover-Up
Mother Jones | Posted 06.06.2009 | Politics
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On April 21, Philip Zelikow, who was counselor to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice during the Bush administration, revealed on Foreign Policy's "Sh...
Torture is a B*llsh!t Machine!
Hal Sparks | Posted 05.29.2009 | Politics
It becomes clearer by the day that truth was never the goal of the Bush administration's use of torture and they were in need of false information that was shaped by torture.
Crime and Crime Again
Hart Bochner | Posted 05.29.2009 | Politics
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It will become its own kind of crime if Obama does not set precedent at such a crucial juncture and pursue justice against the Cheney/Rumsfeld/Wolfowitz rat pack.
Moral Relativism: A Little Torture is Just Fine?
Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 05.29.2009 | Politics
Only appeal to moral relativism can be used to justify waterboarding. Some elements of morality must be basic to humanity across time and across cultures. Torture can never be explained away.
Torture Finally Broke Them
John Wellington Ennis | Posted 05.29.2009 | Politics
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The truth is long overdue. We as a nation need to recognize that the tactic of coercing information does not work.
Watergate, Prosecuted. Why Not Water(boarding)gate?
Paul Abrams | Posted 05.28.2009 | Politics
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The mess Nixon left Ford -- inflation and recession, a war winding down -- didn't preclude pursuing the larger Watergate affair, and the regime that gave rise to it. What makes waterboarding different?
NYT's Ross Douthat: Cheney For President
New York Times | ROSS DOUTHAT | Posted 05.28.2009 | Politics
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Watching Dick Cheney defend the Bush administration's interrogation policies, it's been hard to escape the impression that both the Republican Party a...
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