Coburn Compares Political Science Funding To Waterboarding
Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), who has been leading a crusade against political science funding, on Tuesday compared the debt such spending would create t...
Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), who has been leading a crusade against political science funding, on Tuesday compared the debt such spending would create t...
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics
A.G. Holder's appointment of John Durham to investigate this sordid episode should be only the first step in a wholesale reevaluation of American national security priorities in the post-9-11 world.
Chris Weigant | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics
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.
Shannyn Moore | Posted 05.27.2009 | Politics
A Presidential BJ and an "enhanced" ball hitter get full blown multimillion dollar Congressional investigations. War crimes...well, hmmm.... we need to think about that! Why is this hard?
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.21.2009 | Politics
I never thought I would be having arguments with people about the merits of torture, which goes to show you how low Bush sunk the general level of American political discourse.
Chris Weigant | Posted 01.15.2009 | Politics
Last week the Senate Armed Services Committee released a report which basically called Bush and his entire National Security Council war criminals.
skinnychef | Posted 09.26.2008 | Home
This video, which runs a little over three minutes, gives a demonstration of waterboarding which was presented during a protest held in front of the Denver Federal Courthouse on Monday, August 25, 2008.
Chris Weigant | Posted 06.28.2008 | Media
McCain has joked that the media is "his base" of support. It was a funny line, but there is a truth at its core: the media has been hard on Obama but unbelievably light on McCain. And this has to stop. Now.
Marc Cooper | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home
With President Bush's veto this weekend of a bill to outlaw the CIA's use of waterboarding, torture now becomes officially codified U.S. policy. But you'd never know it from the reading the Times.
The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 10.14.2009 | Politics