Archive for February, 2008
Putting It Out There
When did being smart and political stop being fun? In this election year, we should be putting ourselves out there as a source of substance in the progressive movement. We can be witty without being shallow, irreverent without being insulting. We’ve got some game. But too much of the time, we’re [...]
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The CIA has confirmed, in testimony to Congress, the use of waterboarding and other ‘enhanced interrogation techniques.’ According to director Michael Hayden, the CIA has used such techniques on “less than a third” of its detainees.
“Hayden said the technique, the use of which has drawn harsh criticism, has not been used in almost five years [...]
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In today’s New York Times online, in an article buried beneath front page stories on the U.S. primaries, the Super Bowl, and the use of DNA to find lost World War II soldiers, you can read an AP piece about the continuing violence in Kenya.
Beyond the obvious lack of attention being paid to the crisis [...]
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