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The NYT And The T-Word
andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com - 12/3/2008
The NYT And The T-Word
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The front-page piece in the NYT today on Obama's thorny task in staffing the CIA, after seven years of its violation of the Geneva Conventions, is revealing in many ways. Like many in the MSM, the NYT cannot bring itself to describe the techniques that the CIA has used as ...
newschannel5.tv - 11/27/2008
Guerra Reveals Evidence
— newschannel5.tv — Wednesday , November 26, 2008 Posted: 07:14 PM Guerra unveils why his investigation led him to the... Vice President WILLACY COUNTY - District Attorney Juan Guerra says his investigation took him all the way to the top, to the Vice President of the ... (more) Guerra Reveals Evidence

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wizbangblog.com - 12/9/2008
Take Me At My Word
— wizbangblog.com — Once again those that cling to guns are showing bitterness in the change soon coming to the... White House. Gun sales during the week Obama was elected jumped nearly 49%... (more) Take Me At My Word

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huffingtonpost.com - 12/2/2008
John Kerry: Keep the Momentum Going
— huffingtonpost.com — One thing we know about politics, you are either moving forward, or you are falling behind. The... progressive movement had what we want to believe was a seismic win on election day -- but it's really only seismic if it continues to reverberate. So ... (more) John Kerry: Keep the Momentum Going

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Leaving Some Running Room
JustOneMinute — Andrew Sullivan reads the NY Times coverage of the impending Obama flip-flop on enhanced interrogation and is aghast: The front-page piece in the NYT today on Obama's thorny task in staffing the CIA, after seven years of its violation of the Geneva Conventions, is revealing in many ways. Like many in the MSM, the NYT cannot bring itself to describe the techniques that the CIA has used as "torture."Big Skip and... This is the strategy of the torture defenders: render this debate once again a red-blue, right-left ding-dong, culture war struggle . It ...

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