The “Goranation” begins
Sorry to post this around dinnertime, but I had to write about it at some point – it might as well be now 😉
Sorry to post this around dinnertime, but I had to write about it at some point – it might as well be now 😉
Spencer Ackerman at TPMmuckraker reports on the statement House Speaker Nancy Pelosi made about what her knowledge was of waterboarding at the time she and other ranking Democrats were briefed on CIA interrogation tactics:
Have at it, ya’ll:
Pelosi plays the gender card, round two:
As you can expect, the news the CDC reported Wednesday about the teen birth rate rising 3% in 2006, the first time the number has risen since 1991, the usual suspects were all aflutter about how this new information is just “more proof” that “abstinence-only” programs don’t work, while comprehensive sex edcuation programs “do.”
The BBC has stepped into it again. It appears that a paintball trip they funded for a few Islamists as part of a BBC “reality”-type series – that was supposed to make western “paranoia” over Islamists seem unfounded – has backfired, with the recipients of the reality check being the BBC themselves. The Times of London reports: