Marc Thiessen defends the “al-Qaeda 7″ attack ad by likening the attorneys who defended detainees in Guantanamo, as well as José Pedilla, John Walker Lindh, and others to “mob lawyers” and “drug cartel lawyers.” Setting aside the obvious point that even mobsters and drug lords deserve representation in a court of law, we should not [...]

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Last night I experimented with drawing caricature from digital scratch. I think it looks okay — as in, it looks like him and it’s cartoony — but it doesn’t grab me the way pen on paper does. I am less comfortable drawing digitally than I am using traditional tools. That can always change, given that [...]

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“So, if the President wants to crush the testicles of a terror suspect’s child, waterboard the dude, then kill everyone in his home town because they might be full of hostile insurgents, that’s cool with you?” “Sure. What the fuck.” “Is there a legal theory behind all this?” “Well…yeah. I just told you.” “…?” “What [...]

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Dick Cheney will waterboard you now.

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Dick Cheney has already been quite vocal in his criticism of President Obama’s foreign policy, decision to release torture memos, and abandonment of torture as a method of intelligence gathering. Now he’s taking on Colin Powell: Cheney: I Choose Rush Limbaugh Over Colin Powell CBS reports the rest of the interview here. If Dick Cheney [...]

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