by James Heflin | May 22, 2009 | Ten Gallon Liberal
Binyam Mohamed, released from Guantanamo three months ago without charge, and the Air Force lawyer assigned to represent him have levelled some fairly horrifying allegations. I haven't seen much about this before in the American press, though there is a little out...
by James Heflin | May 27, 2009 | Ten Gallon Liberal
"'I want to find out if [waterboarding] is torture,' [Eric] Mancow told his listeners Friday morning, adding that he hoped his on-air test would help prove that waterboarding did not, in fact, constitute torture." (That's shock jock Eric Mancow,...
by James Heflin | May 28, 2009 | Ten Gallon Liberal
Funny how all the commenting dried up with that last post… And for today, we've got a fascinating look back at 2002, when the Weekly Standard, that bastion of neocon philosophizing, had the good grace to explain just how screwed up we really got as a nation...
by James Heflin | Jun 1, 2009 | Ten Gallon Liberal
Certain members of the right are concerned Sonia Sotomayor's fringhteningly Puerto Rican diet may affect her decisions. This is chilling stuff from The Hill:Sotomayor also claimed: “For me, a very special part of my being Latina is the mucho platos de arroz,...
by James Heflin | Jun 2, 2009 | Ten Gallon Liberal
The disintegration of the GOP has provided no small amount of entertainment, from watching Michael Steele take the GOP to the masses with his new "off the hook" party of "hip-hop" to witnessing multiple apologies as underlings (i.e., congressmen)...
