Volokh co-conspirator and the only person to gratuitously use my name in a newspaper column, David Kopel has a sensible suggestion on having a reasonable discussion on Guantanamo Bay. The more plausible analogy to Guantanamo is British interrogation of Irish Republican Army suspects in the early 1970s. Then, the British extracted confessions through "the five […]
Sen. Dick "U.S. troops are like Nazis" Durbin might find it enlightening to read this New York Times story which describes what torture really is -- and it doesn't involve Christina Aguilera. When marines [sic] burst in, one of the captives was lying under a stairwell, badly beaten. At first, they thought he was dead. […]
Sen. Dick Durbin has done a limited pullback on his slander of American troops. “More than 1700 American soldiers have been killed in Iraq and our country’s standing in the world community has been badly damaged by the prison abuses at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo. My statement in the Senate was critical of the policies […]
Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin again refused yesterday to apologize for comparing American troops to Nazis, the jailers of Stalin's gulag and Pol Pot and his murderous regime. Michelle Malkin has a handy roundup of links. Little Green Footballs' Charles Johnson dipped his toe in the sewer and got a little "Screw Them" Kos infection. Among […]
Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin -- in an outrageous display of historical ignorance, hyperbole and idiocy [link PDF document] -- compared U.S. servicemen and women to Nazis. When you read some of the graphic descriptions of what has occurred here [at Guantanamo Bay]--I almost hesitate to put them in the [Congressional] Record, and yet they have […]
The political classes of Washington, both Democrats and Republicans, are in a tizzy over this week's Time magazine report on Guantanamo Bay's Prisoner 063 -- the terrorist who would've been the 20th hijacker, but was turned back at the border. Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska was among those criticizing such metholds [sic]. "It's not […]
City Journal's Katerine Ernst rips California's dimmest bulb, Sen. Barbara Boxer, a new one. After detailing Boxer's nutty attacks on Judge Janice Rogers Brown, Ernst gives us a little history lesson. The Barbara Boxer of four years ago, you’d like to think, would find today’s Barbara Boxer appalling. After all, back then, the senator based […]
Still no Social Security plan, and I only have to go 1 sentence into Krugman's latest column to call it bolshevik storytelling. Baby boomers like me grew up in a relatively equal society. Says Krugman about late '40s, '50s and '60s -- as millions of blacks were fighting for their civil rights.
Call the victims of 9/11 "little Eichmanns" while claiming that you're an American Indian. The Rocky Mountain News is wrapping up an impressive report on Colorado University professor Ward Churchill. Included in their extensive documentation is Churchill's family tree stretching back to the 16th century. Even going back nearly 500 years, they couldn't find a […]
In a classic case of burying the lede, Friday's Washington Post got Democrat Party chief Howard Dean to make a startling confession -- but only if you read far enough into the story. "Have you had advice for Governor Dean about his most recent comments, sir?" Reid replied that there isn't anyone who hasn't "misspoken" […]