The Never Ending Campaign for Liberty
When not outsourcing torture (as noted by Jonathan yesterday), top White House officials were personally planning it - down to the most particular details:
In dozens of top-secret talks and meetings in the White House, the most senior Bush administration officials discussed and approved specific details of how high-value al Qaeda suspects would be interrogated by [...]
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Over on the Freedom @ Work blog, I examine the mindset of union officials and find only elitism and contempt for individual workers.
Speaking of prisons, one thing that always struck me as the ultimate proof that the “war on drugs” will fail, no matter how much money and resources wasted is the fact that our prisons are full of illegal drugs. If walls, barbed wire, searches for everyone going in or out, and armed guards are [...]
If McCain is elected, Lindsey Graham tops his short list for possible Attorney Generals (I actually suspect that he is the only person on that list).
Which makes their closeness all the more worrying:
McCain and Graham aren’t just friends. They’re inseparable, so much so that colleagues, staffers and journalists have begun making cracks about the relationship [...]
From Henry Hazlitt’s What You Should Know About Inflation.
The growing American prison complex is horrific:
At 19, Fornah was jailed on a robbery charge and a series of misdemeanors in December 2005 after a dispute with his girlfriend in which he took her car keys. Unable to post bail, he was locked up at the city’s Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility.
The night of March 24, 2006, [...]
… except this time, we’re not talking about manufacturing jobs. Human Rights Watch is reporting today that the CIA has been sending “terrorists” to Jordan and other countries to be tortured.
Well that clarifies things. By getting others to do our dirty deeds for us, our elected officials are free to “tell the [...]
Apparently some in the “Christian right” are having regrets about not backing the big-government Huckster.
That’s interesting, because I’ve hear credible buzz that Ed Rollins, Huckabee’s campaign manager, has been telling his staff that Huck is the future of the party. He’s even been urging Huckabee staff to go get jobs in important early states, so [...]
