In all the murkiness around what Karl Rove calls Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s “complicity” in the Bush-Cheney torture crimes, two things, at least, are clear.
Early torture incidents that were undertaken without even the flimsy cover of the bogus legal rationales written by Yoo and Bybee were inarguably illegal.
The first is that Republicans are trying to [...]

The truth of the matter is, being secretary of war in a time of war is a very painful thing … How can you like a job when you go to Walter Reed and you know you sent those young men and women in harm’s way? Every single person in combat today I sent there [...]

In this week’s National Journal poll of Washington Beltway insiders, 57 percent of Republican said that former vice president and current torture industry spokesperson Dick Cheney has hurt the party with his current round of press appearances. Only 33 percent thought he had helped the cause, while 5 percent said he’d had no effect and [...]

They wouldn’t be treated any better in the United States, and they wouldn’t have the tropical breezes blowing through.
— Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), quoted by the Washington Post, making a very compelling case for the continued detention of prisoners at the military facility in Guantanamo Bay.

From Eurosurveillance:
What is R?
The growth rate of an epidemic is determined by two factors: the number of new persons infected by each case and the time from start of infectiousness in one case to start of infectiousness in the secondary cases caused by him/her. The first factor is called ’reproduction rate’ and is usually [...]

I have to tell you, I really thought it was much ado about nothing, but I think we all learned an important lesson. I learned to never again pick another team over the Sun Devils in my NCAA bracket. It won’t happen again. And President Crow and the Board of Regents will soon learn all [...]

In the ongoing series of interviews in which he desperately tries to defend the idea that his torture regime was legal, Dick Cheney’s rhetoric is becoming increasingly dark and paranoid:
“We fail to recognize the fact that we’re alone out there in terms of trying to achieve the objective of forcing the Iranians to give up [...]

Weeks of ridicule over the teabagging movement’s clueless branding apparently has not yet killed it. In fact, there are now two separate efforts to lay claim to the movement that had a brief start as a grassroots effort before quickly being commandeered by powerful Republicans who astroturfed it into a series of anti-Obama rallies held [...]

Well, of course, then it was somebody else fleeing the Republican Party ….

Last Wednesday, Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., the majority whip and the chairman of the Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government, said this:
DURBIN: And the banks — hard to believe in a time when we’re facing a banking crisis that many of the banks created — are still the most powerful lobby on Capitol Hill. [...]