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"Model Prisoner" at Guantanamo, Tortured in the "Dark Prison," Loses Habeas Corpus Petition

Andy Worthington | Posted 12.15.2009 | Politics

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Al-Madhwani joins eight other prisoners in a legal netherworld, no longer regarded as "enemy combatants" by the administration, but still detained indefinitely as though they were.

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Washington Post Now 'Panicking' Over Deficits

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Budget Deficits, Social Security, Politics News, Fearmongering, Deficit Commission, Judd Gregg, Medicaid, Medicare, Washington Post, Kent Conrad, Politics News

It's the nattering of the Post's Sudden Deficit Hawks, screeching about how "It's time to stop worrying about the deficit -- and start panicking about the debt."

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Annise Parker: Openly Gay Mayor Elected In Houston, Texas

AP/ Huffington Post | Posted 12.13.2009 | Politics

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Annise Parker has an unbeatable lead over Gene Locke in Houston's hotly contested mayoral election, meaning she will become the city's first openly ga...

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Keep Your Eyes on the Peace Prize

Randall Amster | Posted 12.11.2009 | World

Read More: Obama Administration, Nobel Peace Prize, Gandhi, Obama Nobel Peace Prize, Martin Luther King, Peace, Obama Nobel Peace Prize Speech, Barack Obama, War, Politics News, World News

Almost 45 years ago to the day, Martin Luther King gave his Nobel acceptance speech, and flatly contradicted Obama's reasoning and conclusion that war is a necessary practice.

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Deficit Commission Proposal Designed As A Horrorshow Of Legislative Dysfunction

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Budget Deficits, Politics News, Social Security, Deficit Commission, Judd Gregg, Medicaid, Medicare, Kent Conrad, Politics News

Congressional creatures have been astir lately, with plans to shift the decision-making process on curbing deficits to a blue-ribbon commission that w...

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Dec. 7, 2009, News Update

Richard Valeriani | Posted 12.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama News, US News, News Roundup, Politics News, Politics News

This way to tabloids-Car crash in Florida, Party crash in Washington, Levi Johnston. This way to mainstream media-Urge to Surge, Health Care Reform. ...

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Former Guantanamo Prosecutor Loses Job for Criticizing Military Commissions

Andy Worthington | Posted 12.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Aclu, World, War on Terror, Terrorism, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Congressional Research Service, Susan Crawford, David Addington, Wall Street Journal, World News, Military Commissions, Dick Cheney, Politics News, Col. Morris Davis, Guantanamo Bay, Washington Post, William J. Haynes II, Politics News

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.

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The Chances That Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Will Be Released From Custody After His Trial Equal Zero

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Politics News, Fearmongering, Grassley Oj Simpson, Chuck Grassley Holder Hearing, Charles Grassley, Oj Simpson Jury, Chuck Grassley, Eric Holder, Holder Grassley, Politics News

Is it at all plausible to suggest that KSM is going to come away from his upcoming trial acquitted on these charges, to walk among us as a free man? As it turns out, no!

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Focusing on the Facile

Hannah Fisher | Posted 11.17.2009 | World

Read More: England, Conservative, Political Parties UK, Politics News, House of Commons, British Elections, Politics, Labour, UK Politics, British Politics, 2010 UK General Election, Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Parliament, World News

Political speeches in Britain now contain little more than empty repetition, all substance is lacking. The British public has lost respect and will not start listening until a new breed of politician arises.

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McCain Campaign Emails Contradict Palin's "Going Rogue"

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics

Sarah Palin's much-discussed book, "Going Rogue," hasn't even been officially released yet and already its accuracy is in question. The Huffington ...

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Palin's Enemies List: Lashes Out At The Media, Bloggers, And SNL Writers

Huffington Post | Sam Stein and Lila Shapiro | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics

During the months that she served as the Republican Party's vice presidential candidate, Sarah Palin had what could best be described as an acrimoniou...

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Health Insurers Could Bypass Some Key Reforms

Washington Post | David S. Hilzenrath | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Coverage, Health Insurance, Health Insurers, Senate Health Committee, Health Legislation, Politics News, Health Reform, Politics News

Legislators are designing this new insurance marketplace to protect consumers from many of the pitfalls and inequities in the current system. But even...

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Prominent South Carolina Conservative Offers Support For Graham

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Dawson Graham, Politics News, Lindsey Graham Climate Change, Katon Dawson, Lindsey Graham Censured, Democrats Climate Bill, Lindsey Graham Energy Bill, Energy Bill, Lindsey Graham, Gop Censure Lindsey Graham, Gop Censure, Lindsey Graham South Carolina, Climate Bill, Lindsey Graham Climate Bill, Politics News

A prominent South Carolina conservative offered support for Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Wednesday after a local Republican party censured the s...

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The Real Red Flag Raised By Fort Hood

David A. Love | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living

Read More: US Military, Persian Gulf, War on Terror, Trauma, War in Afghanistan, Timothy McVeigh, Muslim Americans, Afghan War, Violence, Psychology, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Veterans, Gun Violence, Politics News, Politics, Iraq PTSD, Iraq Veterans, Military, Vietnam War, Nidal Malik Hasan, Muslims, Ptsd, Us Troops Afghanistan, National Institutes of Health, Psychiatry, Depression, Fort Hood, Mental Health, Crime, Terrorism, War, Suicide, Iraq Veterans' Mental Health, War in Iraq, Al Qaeda, Afghanistan War, Texas, Army, Anti-Muslim Bias, Muslim, Oklahoma City Bombing, Fort Hood Shootings, Living News

As a repository for violence, the military is not dealing with untreated mental illness among its ranks. The fact that Hasan was a mental health professional underscores the problem.

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Why Two White Kids Are a Senseless Tragedy but an Arab American Is Terrorism

Brian Ross | Posted 11.11.2009 | Media

Read More: Shootings, Army Shooting, Eric Harris, Politics News, Terrorism, Dylan Klebold, Media, Journalism, Major Nidal Hasan, Reporting, Harris, Politics, Cnn, Army, Virginia Tech Shooting, Cho Seung-Hui, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, New York Times, Fox News, Racism, Racism in Media, Colombine Shootings, US Army, Virginia Tech Massacre, Wolf Blitzer, Fort Hood Shootings, Klebold, Colombine, Media News

When a couple of white kids shoot up a school, it is a tragedy. Bring on a shooting at a military base that involves an Arab-American though, and the media does everything it can to shout "terrorism."

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Fox News Fact-Checks Sarah Palin's Coin Conspiracy Theory (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Lila Shapiro | Posted 11.12.2009 | Media

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This must sting a bit. Sarah Palin's newest conspiracy theory on the "disturbing" redesign of U.S. coins was too much, even for Fox News -- on Tuesda...

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Parents: Vaccinate Your Children

Anne Mai Bertelsen | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: H1N1 Vaccine, Politics News, Polio, H1n1, Swine Flu Pandemic, Vaccines, Politics News

Parents born after 1970 don't know about these diseases first hand. They have the luxury of protection and ignorance: they grew up with vaccines and without pandemics.

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First HuffPost Blog: When Wrong, We Need to Own up to It

Steve Marmel | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Census-Suicide, Bill Sparkman Hanged, Daniel Boone National Forest, Bill Sparkman, Politics News, Michele Bachmann, Politics News

Does Michele Bachmann get to continue walking around like she's not complicit in the death of census worker Bill Sparkman? Or do we finally start holding people accountable for their words and actions?

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Ft. Hood UPDATES: New Clues In Military Base Shooting

AP | MIKE BAKER and BRETT J. BLACKLEDGE | Posted 11.07.2009 | Politics

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FORT HOOD, Texas — As if going off to war, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan cleaned out his apartment, gave leftover frozen broccoli to one neighbor and c...

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Nadal Malik Hasan (PHOTO): Key Details About Fort Hood Shooting Suspect

AP | BRETT J. BLACKLEDGE | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — His name appears on radical Internet postings. A fellow officer says he fought his deployment to Iraq and argued with soldiers who ...

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Malik Nadal Hasan (PHOTO): Key Details Emerge About Fort Hood Shooting Suspect

AP | BRETT J. BLACKLEDGE | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — His name appears on radical Internet postings. A fellow officer says he fought his deployment to Iraq and argued with soldiers who ...

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Basic Truths in Hoh Resignation Letter Were True When He Took His Job

David Quigg | Posted 10.30.2009 | World

Read More: Andrew Bacevich, President Obama, Andrew Sullivan, Garrison Keillor, George W. Bush, 9/11, Matthew Hoh, United States, State Department, Hoh Resignation, Barack Obama, Troops, Andrew Exum, Afghanistan War, Politics News, Steve Coll, Rory Stewart, Counterinsurgency, Richard Holbrooke, Michael Semple, Warwire, Military, Washington Post, Afghanistan, Christopher Buckley, Terrorism, Counterterrorism, World News

The basic grim truths that Matthew Hoh wrote about in his much-quoted resignation letter were all basically true when he took his job a few months ago.

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Constituents Demand Sen. Kyl Acknowledge Loved Ones' Suffering, Deaths

Dawn Teo | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Politics News, Senator Jon Kyl, Senator John McCain, Health Insurance, Jon Kyl, Health Insurance Reform, Mccain, John Kyl, Politics News

I received email after email from HuffPost readers... furious that Senator Kyl doesn't understand the consequences for ordinary Americans who can't afford insurance or medical treatment.

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Franken's Anti-Rape Amendment May Be Stripped By Senior Dem, Sources Say

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics

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An amendment that would prevent the government from working with contractors who denied victims of assault the right to bring their case to court is i...

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Justice at Last? Guantanamo Uighurs Ask Supreme Court for Release Into U.S.

Andy Worthington | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, World, War on Terror, Terrorism, Judge Ricardo Urbina, President Obama, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Justice Department, US District Court, Boumediene v. Bush, Barack Obama, Uighurs, World News, Dick Cheney, Habeas Corpus, Politics News, Guantanamo Uighurs, Bermuda, Uighurs Bermuda, U.S. Court of Appeals, Habeas Corpus Guantanamo, Guantanamo Bay, Sabin Willett, Advocacy, Politics News

In briefs, the battle lines have been drawn. On the one hand is the government, endorsing Bush-era policies. And for the Uighurs, there is a Boston-based attorney and his team.

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