Category: Politics
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Scientists and Engineers for America
There’s a new organization out there: Scientists and Engineers for America. They’re a group who are trying to actively support political candidates who will give credence to scientific evidence when making policy decisions. Those of us who are not wilfully ignorant recognize that the current administration has a tendency to pick and chose (and outright…
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What the Detention Bill Means
There is a very nice post along with some great links and a very interesting discussion going on at A Blog Around the Clock dealing with the recent Denention Bill and what it means. I have little to add, so I’ll just encourage you to go over and check it out.
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A ‘XXX’ Lie
More from Fact.Check.org. Today they report on the campaign of Vernon Robinson, a Republican running for the house in North Carolina. He’s running an add about his opponent, Rep. Brad Miller. In it, the Republicans say that Rep. Miller spent your tax dollars to pay teenage girls to watch pornographic movies with probes connected to…
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A Big Piece of News
From the NY Times: Spy Agencies Say Iraq War Worsens Terror Threat A stark assessment has found that the overall terrorist threat has grown since the Sept. 11 attacks.
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The CIA knows when you’re lying
Read this, from the NY Times. It concerns the interrogation of Abu Zubaydah, caught early on in Afghanistan. The article says that there was a major dispute between the FBI who were using standard interrogation techniques, and the CIA who came later and started using more ‘aggressive’ techniques (that’s a euphemism for ‘torture’, you know,…
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Five years later …
I am a regular reader of The Economist. I like it because it has news from around the world, given with a liberal (small-L) bent. When I say ‘liberal’ here, I do not mean ‘the left wing of the Democratic party’; I mean liberal in the sense of believing in free enterprise, generally small government,…
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Can the FBI Prevent US Citizens from Entering the Country?
If you are not answering strongly in the negative, then you need to re-read the Constitution. The story is here. A naturalized US citizen and his US-born son have been denied entry to the US because they refuse to talk to the FBI and undergo a polygraph test. They are coming from Pakistan and are…
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Lincoln says: ‘Hang Them’?
I would like to urge all my readers (all two of you!) to start visiting FactCheck.org on a regular basis. This is a site run by the Annenberg Public Policy Center whose mission is to monitor the ‘accuracy of what is said by major U.S. political players in the form of TV ads, debates, speeches,…
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Yet another episode of ‘You’ve Got To Be Kidding Me’, courtesy of ‘The War On Terror’
I’m breaking my promise already. Get a load of this editorial from the NY Times. This poor guy is being harassed by the FBI for supporting the destruction of a dam so fish could move more freely through the river. A local paper reported that Mr. Bensman told the [Army] Corps [of Engineers] he “would…
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Plan B is Here.
It’s official. Plan B is soon to be available over the counter. Actually, it’s to be kept behind the counter and only available to women over 18 without a prescription, but this is a success none-the-less. I personally think it should be available to all women, all the time, but I can live with this.…
Steven Vlad 