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“My view is, we ought to double Guantanamo”

May 20th, 2007 · 1 Comment

Thank you Mitt Romney for that jewel of wisdom. So basically McCain is the only major Republican candidate against American use of torture. Oh, Rudy and Romney can say they want “enhanced interrogation techniques” but what does that actually mean? Here are six examples of identified enhanced interrogation techniques used by the […]

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Don’t be coy with me, Mr. Giuliani

May 19th, 2007 · No Comments

I have spent the last few days watching (and then brooding over) the respective Democratic and Republican Primary debates. As a result, you can expect that the next few blog entries will probably be related to the American Presidential race as it is currently evolving. To keep entries short, I’ll try to harp on specific […]

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The Manichean Paranoia Patch

May 13th, 2007 · 2 Comments

In the course of poking around the Internet, looking for blog title inspiration, I stumbled across something interesting. Many people are familiar with the phrase “Manichean Paranoia.” The first time I heard it was during a recent interview with Jimmy Carter’s National Security Advisor, Zbigniew Brzezinski (whose name, incidentally, is worth 57 points in Scrabble). […]

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