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The torture-defending spokespersons for the Republican Party were on full display yesterday on the Sunday news shows. First there was Papa Dick Cheney stopping by Fox News Sunday for a softball game with Chris Wallace, what Andrew Sullivan aptly named, A Teenage Girl Interviewing the Jonas Brothers. Then we had daughter Liz on This Week making some incredible claims (even for Liz, and that's saying something) about the Bush Justice Department. Finally, John McCain on...

Proponents of "enhanced interrogation techniques" point to the case of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed as evidence that the methods work.  However, as today's article by the Washington Post explores, the situation is more complicated than just that.Yes, KSM was uncooperative and gave deliberately misleading information immediately after his capture.  Yes, KSM appears to have become a powerful asset for the Intelligence Community after waterboarding and sensory deprivation.  However, we must not make the mistake of assuming...

My opposition to the previous administration's policies that led to torture and detainee abuse should come as no surprise to anyone here.  I don't think I need to rehash those arguments.However, the Attorney General's move to investigate potential criminal wrongdoing in the implementation of those policies has provoked a backlash from the Obama administration's critics.  They claim this will threaten intelligence gathering operations and make our country more vulnerable to attack.A former FBI counterterrorism official,...

The release of the CIA Inspector General's report containing some of the details of what the Bush administration called "enhanced interrogation techniques" and the rest of the civilized world calls "torture" has brought former Vice-President Cheney out of his cave to revive the question of whether or not torture works. The fact that the question of 'do the ends justify the means' is even part of the conversation tells us the depths to which we...

 Let me be perfectly clear: I support the 2nd amendment, and I will fight for your right to own a gun whether I agree with your politics or not. This blog is NOT a debate about the 2nd amendment or gun control. This blog is about common sense. (Hear that, Glenn Beck? REAL Common Sense!) As you've undoubtedly seen, protesters have taken to openly carry firearms to President Obama's town hall meetings. I'm shocked...

  The Obama administration is having a banner week. First up, LA Times: Former President Clinton, two journalists welcomed back from North Korea. Here's a great clip of Hillary Clinton being asked about John Bolton's criticism of the humanitarian mission, in which she addresses the remarks by pointing out that if President Obama walked on water "he'd say he couldn't swim." Priceless.     From North Korea we move on to the historic confirmation...

According to an article on the Huffington Post, Glenn Beck's accusation that Obama is a racist is costing Glenn Beck's time slot on Fox News some major advertisers. Among these advertisers are the consumer goods conglomerate Proctor & Gamble and Progressive Insurance. They've not abandoned Fox just yet; but they have requested that none of their ads run in Beck's time slot.  I'm personally disappointed they didn't pull their advertising before Glenn Beck had Michael Schueur on...