Finally, an intelligent decision about missile defense. The Bush plan to place an anti-ballistic missile shield in central Europe was a bad idea from the start. It was supposedly designed to thwart an Iranian long-range missile threat. The only problems were that Iran doesn’t have long-range missiles and probably won’t for some time to come, [...]

The spectacle of the GOP doing everything it possibly can to derail any inquiry into the interrogation practices of the Bush administration is truly stomach-churning. They bounce from denying that the things the Bush administration authorized were torture, to claiming that anything the president authorized was by definition legal, to claiming that torture worked to [...]