The Debate Link

Though he believes that waterboarding probably "saved lives" , a CIA agent who participated in the procedure believes the techniqu...

As a devoted Calvin & Hobbes fan, this might be the greatest thing I've ever seen . First the relevant C & H strip: Calvin: I li...

Lindsay Beyerstein is none too pleased with Nancy Pelosi's explanation as to why she was silent on the CIA's use of torture when sh...

Michael O'Hear remarks on the findings of a book examining how convicted criminals re-enter American society. One of the more "pro...

One of my hobbies during application season (first undergraduate, now graduate) was to fantasize about all the evil things I would do if I w...

Mike Huckabee -- with a bit of dodging -- refused to recant his 1992 comments that we should "isolate" AIDS patients. Notably, by...

Jill of Feministe picks a nit on Ayaan Hirsi Ali's recent NYT editorial asking where all the "moderate Muslims" are . Ali use...

For the record, this post isn't written in response to anything that's happened on this site. Barring anything unforeseen, I don...

There is some movement amongst the blogosphere hordes coming up. Tomorrow, the stable of American Prospect blogs will add a new member as E...

Over at Concurring Opinions, Frank Pasquele blogs on a presentation by a Silicon Valley entrepreneur on privacy in cyberspace. He made a bu...

It's Pretend to be a Time Traveler day! Only you can't actually tell people you're a time traveler -- that'd make you crazy...

She talks to The Guardian , and solidifies her well-established reputation as a total baller (that's a good thing).

Trying to derail a certain segment of the population who doesn't want to vote for a candidate of his religion, Mitt Romney decides to s...

The first boxing card I've ever bought on PPV (Chanukah present from my parents) will be this Saturday -- headlined by the highly antici...

I'm a bit behind the ball on this one, but I wanted to point to Fred Thompson's response to grumblings from the religious right tha...

As any good Jew could tell you, today is the first night of Chanukah. Driving to pick up my Nana, the local rock station was playing a ...

From the Huntsville Times , two prominent elements of Alabama's Black political community have split on whether to endorse Illinois Sena...

Dwight D. Eisenhower related a story that happened to him when he was a kid. He was sitting with his best friend by the creek, and his frien...

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Well I'll be. Venezuelan voters have rejected a proposal promoted by President Hugo Chavez that would have drastically increased his p...