I’ve grown increasingly tired of the fights over Supreme Court nominees. No matter who the current occupant of the White House names, you can be sure there will be strident objections from the opposing party. Too conservative, out of the mainstream, too liberal, a judicial activist, a sexist, a racist, etc., etc. Oh, sure, there [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]