Eric Florack on April 25th, 2009

James at OTB:

Manfred Nowak, the U.N.’s special rapporteur on torture, proclaimed yesterday that the United States must prosecute the lawyers who drew up the torture memos and that if we fail to do so it is the duty of

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Eric Florack on April 25th, 2009

Founding Bloggers:

Yesterday, we officially filed our DMCA counter-notice in the matter of CNN’s censorship of Founding Bloggers’ coverage of the Chicago Tax Day Tea Party. A copy of the counter-notice is available at Ben Sheffner’s blog Copyrights & Campaigns,

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Eric Florack on April 25th, 2009

Sometimes, the world is a smaller place than we ever imagine it could be.

A few years ago, used to work at a bank as an information technology person. (Hence the nickname, ‘BitHead’. I’m a tech, by trade, usually working

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davidl on April 25th, 2009

Gotta love the leftard logic.  It somehow lowers our standing in the world to get Khalid Shaykh Muhammed’s hair wet, but having half a million children die in an acceptable price, from May 12, 1996:

Lesley Stahl on U.S. sanctions

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davidl on April 25th, 2009

Eric Cartman meets Bart Simpson and goes Palestinian? A political cartoon, not for the easily offended with both an edge and a blast, McClatcchy:

JERUSALEM — Ahmed and Salim appear to be typical teenage brothers.

They spend hours in

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davidl on April 25th, 2009

Arthur L. DowdellArthur L. Dowdell, of 909 Pleasant Avenuel Auburn, AL 36832 is a bigot and a thief:

(AP) – AUBURN, Ala. (AP) ? Several Confederate flags placed on the graves of Civil War soldiers got pulled up by

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davidl on April 24th, 2009

As Bit rambled:

Ignored his advisors: About everyone, including his current CIA director begged Obama not to release those interrogation memos. Guess Soros trumps all that.

From R. Jeffrey Smith, Michael D. Shear and Walter Pincus Washington Post

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Eric Florack on April 24th, 2009

ramble-gardenstore

Welcome, one and all to the most intense nightly read on the ‘sphere: The ever more popular BitsBlog Nightly Ramble

This is the Garden Store Edition

  • When government rises, true charity falls: This blog has pointed out for years, that

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on April 24th, 2009

Editor’s note: this is cross posted from The Conservative Reader, where good buddy Art Smith holds court. I asked him to report back to us, and this was the result, posted at his place on the 22nd. George Pataki

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Eric Florack on April 24th, 2009

Clarice Feldman at Pajamas Media nails it cleanly:

As the president released the memos, C.I.A. Director Leon Panetta sent a letter to his agents:

In releasing these memos, the men and women of the CIA have assurances from both myself,

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Eric Florack on April 24th, 2009

Dave Schuler at OTB:

Germany is concerned about the Taliban fighters nearing Pakistan’s Islamabad capital:

BERLIN, April 24 (Reuters) – Germany expressed concern on Friday at the advance of Taliban fighters towards Pakistan’s capital and urged the government in Islamabad

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Eric Florack on April 24th, 2009

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Eric Florack on April 24th, 2009

American Heroes

That’s what we ought to call the men and women who interrogated the worst of the worst. For those most committed to the ridiculous crusade for terrorist rights, “enhanced interrogation” is not only immoral and illegal, it’s ineffective.

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davidl on April 24th, 2009

The same twit, Mrs. Clnton, who deems former Vice President Richard Cheney not to a reliable source, continues to preach out reach to her so-called moderate Taliban, Daily Times Monitaor(PK):

Haneef Mehsud was a normal teenager who spent most

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Now that the one has established the principle that policy difference should be prosecuted as felonies, will President Palin prosecute Obama administration officials promoting the fraudulent theory of anthropogenic climate changes,  Social Sciience Research Network:

Myth: Everyone understands what

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