South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford says he appreciates the lieutenant governor’s offer to take over, but he plans to stay in office. “A lot of what’s going now is pure politics plain and simple,” said the embattled Sanford.
Congressman Jim Moran, D-Va., kicked protesters out of a townhall meeting Monday when they began to drown out comments on the issue made by former Gov. Howard Dean. One of the protesters was identified by Fox News as anti-abortion activist Terry Randall.
The Washington Post’s David Ignatius simply cannot get off the wheel he spins for the Central Intelligence Agency. Only two days after the release of the 2004 CIA study of the detention and interrogation program, which provides sordid and sadistic details of an illegal and immoral program, Ignatius still opposes any criminal review of the [...]
In early August, Sarah Palin made a claim that ObamaCare would create ‘death panels’ – that the elderly would essentially have to make pleas for their life in front of a panel of bureaucrats. Ms. Elizabeth ‘Betsy’ McCaughey has been identified as the creator of the ‘death panel’ myth. McCaughey has done this before. She killed HillaryCare more than a decade ago.
Ted Kennedy, the “Liberal Lion,” and one of the longest serving senators in the U.S. history, died Tuesday evening at his home in Hyannisport, Mass., after a yearlong battle with brain cancer. He was 77.
The Washington Post continues to campaign against any accountability for the detentions policies of the Central Intelligence Agency, using its own editorials and oped writers as well as outsiders who support the efforts of the newspaper.
Raw Story reports that this little noticed video of a recent townhall debate over healthcare evolved into a clear-cut threat on President Barack Obama’s life when an elderly man told the audience that they should be concerned about Obama because “he’s acting like a little Hitler.” Tom Eisenhower, who described himself as a veteran of [...]
Former CIA case officer turned author Robert Baer says a probe into the interrogation of terror suspects is necessary to clear the air. He says in the future, interrogating suspects should be left to the FBI or U.S. Military.
Among the treasure trove of documents released Monday related to the CIA’s detention and torture program is a 20-page background paper that for the first time describes in extraordinary detail the process of “rendition” and the torture prisoners are then subjected to when they are flown to “black site” prisons. The document was turned over [...]
The CIA released a declassified version of a 2004 inspector general’s report that was sharply critical of the agency’s detention and torture program. The long-awaited report contains shocking details about the treatment of detainees and states in no uncertain terms that high-level CIA officials in Langley micromanaged the torture of detainees. The inspector general’s probe [...]
