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Thursday, January 8, 2009 12:00 AM

America then and now

It's now commonplace for our political and media elites to explicitly renounce the principles of justice which the U.S. long led the world in advocating.
Glenn Greenwald

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  • Thursday, January 8, 2009 09:59 AM

    Hypocrites on hypocrisy

    If you voted for one of the candidates who pledged to continue the "war" on "terror" (Obama or McCain), then it seems to me that you, good citizen, should be disqualified from discussing anyone else's hypocrisy on the subject of war crimes. Regardless of your preferred candidate's promise to make the trains run on time.

    —The Reality Kid Read The Reality Kid's other letters

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