Blogging and comments restored
January 10, 2009
After making some changes to both the commenting and blogging system, both reader blogs and comments directly to news stories have been restored.
No punishment planned for CIA over torture
January 10, 2009
As President-elect Barack Obama assures intelligence officials that his complaints are with the Bush administration, not them, there are growing hints from Democratic Senate allies that spy agency veterans will not be prosecuted for past harsh interrogation and detainee policies.
Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Dianne Feinstein told The Associated Press in an interview this week that there is a clear distinction between those who made the policies and those who carried them out.
Feel good Presidency? Don’t bank on it
January 10, 2009
We will not have a feel-good presidency in Barack Obama.
In a major economic speech before inauguration, he warned: I don’t believe it’s too late to change course, but it will be if we don’t take dramatic action as soon as possible. If nothing is done, this recession could linger for years. The unemployment rate could reach double digits. Our economy could fall $1 trillion short of its full capacity, which translates into more than $12,000 in lost income for a family of four.
Lessons learned from Bush’s war on terrorism
January 10, 2009
Looking at the United States from the outside in, these are the primary lessons the world should take away from America’s "global war on terrorism" under the Bush-Cheney administration.
let’s be honest about Abe, shall we?
January 10, 2009
When Barack Obama takes the oath of office Jan. 20, he will place his left hand on Abraham Lincoln’s Bible.
Much has been made of the Lincoln connection, with the first black man assuming the presidency in the 200th anniversary of Honest Abe’s birthday. The historic alignment has occasioned renewed spasms of idolatrous odes to "The Great Emancipator."
But before we’re all swept away in a paroxysm of national ecstasy, a few inconvenient truths must be noted about "Honest Abe."