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Who cares how the Pelosi argument comes out. In th meantime, the right wing has what it wants: a distraction from Wilkerson’s explosive charge that Cheney ordered torture as part of his plan to lie us into an unnecessary war.
Archive for May, 2009
May 15th, 2009
Category: Microeconomics and policy analysis
The proposal is better than nothing, but could easily be improved.
May 14th, 2009
Category: Drug Policy
Or at least the Obama Administration is “over” the drug war. The new “Drug Czar” says so.
May 14th, 2009
Category: Energy and Environment
Two Republicans–Bob Inglis Jeff Flake–and one Democrat, Dan Lipinksi, have just introduced legislation that would seek to reduce global warming by imposing a carbon tax, all of the revenue from which would be used to reduce the payroll tax. It appears that the level at which the tax would be imposed would produce the same [...]
May 14th, 2009
Category: Watching Conservatives
The likely Republican Senate candidate from Arkansas says what he really thinks.
May 13th, 2009
Category: Afghanistan, Watching Conservatives
The headline of today’s LA Times column, by Max Boot: Obama’s right on target in Afghanistan The president has assembled an impressive military-diplomatic team and strategy that inspires confidence. Somehow, this doesn’t make me feel any better.
May 13th, 2009
Category: Law Notes
No, it’s not a license to cheat. It’s a cognitive capacity, regrettably rare on the current Supreme Bench.
May 13th, 2009
Category: Torture
A useful Senate hearing on interrogation. Also, I attempt to uncloud some issues Amy raised about my earlier post on learning to interrogate effectively.
May 13th, 2009
Category: Uncategorized
Quincy is clouding the issues here. His post illustrates 3 common problems in this whole interrogation debate: Problem 1: Rushing to the dark corner of the room. My post argued that we need much better evidence about which interrogation methods work better than others. I did not use the word “coercive” for a reason: I [...]