The newly released secret laws of the Bush administration - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com: Yesterday, the Obama administration, to its credit, took steps towards fulfilling an important promise by disclosing -- in response to a long-standing, hard-fought ACLU lawsuit for disclosure -- multiple DOJ doc...

This paragraph from FirstRead (”First thoughts: So who’s corrupt now?“) (via Instapundit) has so much to play with I have to break it down. So let’s get started, yes? *** Collateral damage: Where to begin? Indeed, it’s a smorgasboard. First, there’s the case of Ch...

A while back I posted an article called Kim Jong Il Should Die. Well, guess what. I still think so. And here is another hour long video showing just how terrible this monster and his whole regime is. Nothing in the video makes me more sick than at the 43:00 minute mark. A doctor has voluntarily perf...

From the BBC: Fresh clashes have broken out between police and protesters in Athens and other cities, after a night of rioting triggered by the police shooting dead a youth. Greek authorities say the shooting took place after youths attacked a police car with stones and petrol bombs. Two police offi...

From the Associated Press: Mass. man ticketed on a gridlocked highway while wife in labor on way to hospital Dec 5, 2008 (BOSTON) A man in Massachusetts is appealing a $100 ticket he got for driving to a hospital in the breakdown lane of a gridlocked Boston highway while his wife was in labor. John ...

WWL-CBS-4 New Orleans: NOPD officer arrested for beating and taking money at a traffic stop A New Orleans Police Officer has been arrested for beating and taking money from someone at a traffic stop. After an investigation by the Public Integrity Bureau, the NOPD arrested Rydell Diggs, a 7-year vete...

Jewish Whistleblower writes: Jewish author connected to Rabbi Hershy Worch’s former synagogue (Hamakom Synagogue) in Australia writes a book about an abusive Rabbi who is "a charismatic US rabbi who rides into town on a page of Kabbalah, bringing with him an irresistible mix of personalit...

Kim Jong Il, the North Korean DICtator, should die - or at the very least be overthrown. Why do I say this? Because no one in North Korea is allowed to. Oh, and because I think that he, and the entire regime that props him up, is a fascist pig on the same scale as Hitler. Hell, there are 200,000 pol...

Posted by Kathy I want to bring to your attention an important blog entry by bewart. Keep in mind the recent revelations that George W. Bush authorized the use of torture. See Larisa's post here: "This is my first of a series of diaries about prisoners murdered by US forces. It will tell the story o...

The constitution, the law and the UN convention against torture provide for no exceptions, no special circumstances in which it is OK to torture. Government sanctioned torture is a crime and a war crime that legal fictions can't disguise or provide legal immunity. The already public evidence is too ...