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mahablog.com - 3/29/2009
More News That’s Not News
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You can file this under the heading of “stuff we already knew.” Peter Finn and Joby Warrick write for the Washington Post that …not a single significant plot was foiled as a result of Abu Zubaida’s tortured confessions, according to former senior government officials ...
washingtonpost.com - 4/3/2009
Right Matters: A Judicial Outrage in Iowa
— washingtonpost.com — Iowa's supreme court has ruled that its constitutional guarantee of "equal protection" for all people requires the... state to recognize same-sex marriage. The court overturned a law passed in 1998. (more) Right Matters: A Judicial Outrage in Iowa

Comments vote down The Corner on National Review Online found this 4/3/2009found this
mudvillegazette.com - 3/31/2009
Someone hit the hot button
— mudvillegazette.com — “Until now, the military has relied heavily on inexperienced National Guardsmen to fill out the teams” That... quote in a Stars and Stripes story didn't go over very well with (Afghan/TF Phoenix vet) Bouhammer . So he emailed the Stars and Stripes, who then deleted the offending passages  ... (more) Someone hit the hot button

Comments vote down Greyhawk Greyhawk posted 3/31/2009posted this
Washington Post Claims, Without Evidence, That Public is “Outraged” by Obama Spending
yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 3/25/2009
Washington Post Claims, Without Evidence, That Public is “Outraged” by Obama Spending
— yglesias.thinkprogress.org — My friend J.T. points out this passage in Lori Montgomery’s Washington Post coverage of the budget: The... moves come as Republicans are pounding Obama for proposing a rapid increase in government spending and taxpayers are voicing anxiety and ... (more) Washington Post Claims, Without Evidence, That Public is ...

Comments vote down The Huffington Post | Full News Feed found this 3/25/2009found this

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The case against torture, revisited
The Reaction — By Michael J.W. Stickings Maha is right that we knew this already, but there is nonetheless some value in WaPo's report that the torture, by the U.S. (which has tortured, denials from Bush et al. notwithstanding), of one supposedly "high-value" al Qaeda figure turned out to produce nothing in the way of value: When CIA officials subjected their first high-value captive, Abu Zubaida, to ...

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Crooks and Liars — ... : Why were the torture tapes destroyed?  Because there was only one thing that could prove they tortured for nothing and got nothing - the tapes ...

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