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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
From where I sit, the GOP handwringing about straw men and phantasmic threats from an Obama presidency illuminates how truly cowardly most conservatives are these days. Quick to discard diplomacy; quick to feed the flesh, blood and bone of other people's children into the machinery of discretionary war; quick to embrace testosterone-laden rhetoric to whip the uninformed public into a froth. They are the last, however, to lead by example. They are the most dangerous form of REMF--the policymaking variant.
America, beware the fool who shrieks at his own shadow.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
219 Democrats and one Republican join in favor of the legislation, which passed by a narrow margin
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
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