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n. One who believes in the rule of law.
(Per Volokh Conspirator Kenneth Anderson.)
Archive for the ‘Torture’ Category
September 5th, 2009
Category: Torture
August 14th, 2009
Why does Michael Vick have to go through a series of mea culpas and tearful apologies (not to mention a prison sentence) for torturing dogs, and Dick Cheney does not even face an investigation for torturing people?
July 15th, 2009
Puritan Massachusetts did penance for the Salem witch trials – but Obama’s America is avoiding itfor torture.
July 3rd, 2009
The Iranian regime embraces “enhanced interrogation techniques.”
June 22nd, 2009
Category: Torture
The massacre of Glencoe was 300 years ago, but some things never change: people will do things for the imagined good of their party or their country they’d never do for personal gain.
May 29th, 2009
What kind of person seems to insist on torturing other people for political purposes and on blowing the heads of off animals for seemingly no reason at all?
May 26th, 2009
Category: Torture
A conservative talk show host undergoes elective friendly waterboarding to show it’s not torture and nevertheless concludes that he was wrong and it is torture.
May 20th, 2009
A half century of government-subsidized child abuse and torture by religious institutions (over-the-top-ironically called the Christian Brothers and the Sisters of Mercy), and nine years of rearguard obstruction to prevent the story from getting out. US governments were mainly asleep at the switch; the Irish state delivered children to these wolves by the busful. Wow.
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