You go, King Mike! Too right.
Category Archives: Government
fafblog vs. feds
Once again, Fafblog sums up my thoughts better than I could do myself.
bq. If only there existed some sort of federal agency for emergency management, perhaps under the supervision of a cabinet-level department for securing the homeland! In the absence of such powers and resources, what is a chief executive to do but bolster morale as best he can through boisterous jokes and heartily-staged photo ops?
What indeed?
‘no good reason’ is apparently enough
So, how does our favorite administration top the quagmire in Iraq? Start another quagmire in Iran, of course. And make sure there’s a handy terrorism trigger to justify it in the American collective mind.
this just in: rights still inalienable
The House of Representatives, after deliberation and careful consideration, has decided that “civil liberties just aren’t that important anymore”:http://today.reuters.com/News/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2005-07-21T165437Z_01_N21540320_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-USA-CONGRESS-PATRIOT-DC.XML . Sigh.
this just in: torture still evil
I still can’t fathom how there isn’t an uproar about Guantanamo. Most people were “shocked! shocked!” to hear of the abuses at Abu Ghraib, but news that “Abu Ghraib torture methods were perfected at Gitmo”:http://www.andrewsullivan.com/index.php?dish_inc=archives/2005_07_10_dish_archive.html#112135581079863173 — and that they’re still going on — doesn’t even ripple the water.
Note also “George Orwell’s response to torture in WWII”:http://www.andrewsullivan.com/index.php?dish_inc=archives/2005_07_10_dish_archive.html#112143792996852094, which I’ve included below. I couldn’t say it better.
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