The agonizingly slow death of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell is hard to watch. This turkey should never have been policy in the first place. Gays and Lesbians will soon serve openly in the armed forces, and nothing will happen. A decade from now, we’ll all be wondering what the fuss was about. I’m betting the [...]

Like father, like daughter. Liz Cheney is now fronting another one of the right wing’s outrageous smears. The issue at hand is the conduct of nine lawyers who, prior to their current service in the Department of Justice, represented detainees at Guantanamo. Cheney has dubbed them the “Gitmo Nine,” and openly questioned their patriotism. It [...]

Finally, the 9/11 conspirators are going to have their day in court. What an uproar has been unleashed by Attorney general Eric Holder’s decision to allow  Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his followers to be tried in a civilian court in the United States. The very idea that we at long last are returning to a [...]

So, Obama thought he could wave his magic wand a close the Guantanamo detention facility. Not so fast. The Republican fear mongers, who traded on the terror of terror so successfully, have succeeded in spooking Senate Democrats into blocking the closure. The fear of a voter backlash if detainees are incarcerated in the United States [...]

So the argument over torture goes on. Dennis C. Blair, Obama’s own national intelligence director, said in a memo that harsh interrogation techniques did provide some valuable information about al Quaeda. This was all Dick Cheney, the former administration’s self-appointed attack dog, needed to enter the fray once more, justifying the unjustifiable and claiming that [...]