nytimes.com - 6/30/2009
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No one seems to know how old Mohammed Jawad was when he was seized by Afghan forces in Kabul six and a half years ago and turned over to American custody. Some reports say he was 14. Some say 16. The Afghan government believes he was 12. What is not in dispute is that he was no older than an ...
nytimes.com - 6/29/2009
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So the House passed the Waxman-Markey climate-change bill.
In political terms, it was a remarkable achievement. But...
212 representatives voted no. A handful of these no votes came from representatives who considered the bill too weak, but most rejected ...
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Op-Ed Columnist - Betraying the Planet
nytimes.com - 7/3/2009
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O.K., Thursday’s jobs report settles it. We’re going
to need a bigger stimulus. But does the president...
know that? Let’s do the math. Since the recession began, the U.S. economy has lost 6 ½ million jobs and as that grim employment report confirmed, ...
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Op-Ed Columnist - That ’30s Show
nytimes.com - 7/1/2009
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There is much in the House cap-and-trade energy
bill that just passed that I absolutely hate. It...
is too weak in key areas and way too complicated in others. A simple, straightforward carbon tax would have made much more sense than this Rube Goldberg ...
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Op-Ed Columnist - Just Do It
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Abbreviated Pundit Round-Up
Daily Kos —
Your one stop pundit shop. Bob Herbert's column cannot be abbreviated - read it all. Linda Greenhouse points out the obvious, whatever Fox & Company's spin on it is: Like that decision or hate it, cheer Monday’s ruling or deplore it, one thing that is clear from reading the Supreme Court’s 89 pages of opinions in the case is that Judge Sotomayor and her colleagues played by the old rules, and the court changed them. Although “Sotomayor Reversed” was a frequent headline on the posts that spread quickly across the Web, it was actually the Supreme Court itself that ...
Today's Torture Links
Discourse.net —
Bob Herbert, NYT, How Long Is Long Enough?
Glenn Greenwald, NPR Ombudsman refuses interview regarding “torture”
Crooks & Liars, New Yorker Magazine Buries Major Abu Ghraib Abuse On Page 6 Of CIA Story ...
NSN Daily Update: 6/30/09
democracyarsenal.org —
... Bob Herbert criticizes the Obama administration’s continued, unlawful incarceration of an Afghan detainee. ...
By Yoo’s Own Analysis, Army Field Manual Allows Torture with Drugs
Firedoglake —
... nothing is to allow the worst crimes to be done in our names.
Other posts online today, as part of a mini-blog storm on behalf of the ACLU's Accountablity Project:
See Emptywheel today for a detailed exploration of an autopsy report revealing death by torture in US custody. drrational on another autopsy story documenting death by "enhanced interrogation techniques" bmaz on torture and the Rule of Law. Teacherken on Bob Hebert on torture. Glenn Greenwald on NPR's inability to say ...
Please don't spoil my day, I'm miles away
The Sideshow —
Southern Beale explains that Health insurance isn't for sick people, it's for healthy people. And: "According to conservatives, government can't fix any of our problems, except for healthcare, which it would fix too well, creating an unfair advantage and putting private insurance companies out of business." You have to be entertained by the completely opposed right-wing arguments - "socialized" health insurance (or medicine) both works so well that it will be "unfair competition" with insurance companies and works so poorly that you will be paying a fortune for long wait times and no choice. Weirdly, the arguments the industry ...
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