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I was just scanning over Yahoo’s top news stories, and saw this:

Wow! The president’s going to face war crime charges?!? When did this happen? I mean, there’s ample cause, but given the despicable voting on FISA and telecom immunity, and the Democratic leadership’s reluctance to bring contempt charges against former Bush [...]

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Well we shouldn’t bite the hand that feeds us. We’re indebted to China, thanks to the Bush administration.
Besides, why would president Torture care about China’s human rights record anyway?
Bush defends decision to attend Olympics opening
TOYAKO, Japan (AP) — President Bush spoke out Sunday on the Beijing Olympics and North Korea’s abduction of Japanese citizens, two [...]

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“It was an exhilarating feeling, that’s the best I can describe it.”
Sweet liberty. Mayor Gavin Newsom got a small taste of what it was like for our Founding Fathers when they signed the Declaration of Independence. So did many other Californians.
They say California oftentimes sets the standards on human interaction, and how we treat [...]

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The United States has detained approximately 2,500 people younger than 18 as illegal enemy combatants in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay since 2002, according to a report filed by the Bush administration with the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child.
Although 2,400 of the juveniles were captured in Iraq after the U.S.-led invasion [...]

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Amendment 2, known as the Florida Marriage Protection Act, will be on the November ballot. The amendment states:
“Inasmuch as a marriage is the legal union of only one man and one woman as husband and wife, no other legal union that is treated as marriage or the substantial equivalent thereof shall be valid [...]

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Sad times for this country…….
The use of torture to extract evidence from detainees held at the US military jail in Guantanamo Bay has tarnished the image of the US legal system and alienated allies in the war on terror, a human rights group said Monday.
“The use of evidence tainted by torture and other [...]

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All cruelty springs from weakness.
- Seneca
One of the Bush administration’s chief defenses, besides a mostly gutless and complicit Congress and press, is that the harm they’ve done is so deep and widespread it’s hard to keep track of it all. That said, the Guantanamo show trials and the use of torture are as [...]

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(Cartoon by Mike Keefe, 2/15/08)
In the past two weeks, the Bush administration has finally admitted to torturing prisoners. We’ve seen artful dodges from Attorney General Mukasey and shameless and vile hackdom from many other Bush allies. Some exceptional news articles and commentary have been produced, but sadly and unsurprisingly, they have yet to [...]

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There are two videos you really should see if you’ve missed them.
The brief video below is Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI) explaining the real life ramifications of the surveillance policies the Bush administration and their allies want:

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This comes courtesy of Glenn Greenwald, who has more here, and who often writes on these [...]

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(”If inferior people have 4 children while higher-quality people have 2, this is what will happen.” [1])
 
January 27th is International Holocaust Remembrance Day (the similar Yom HaShoah falls on May 2 this year). The 2006 entry covered book and film recommendations (feel free to pass on any more), while the 2007 entry centered on [...]

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