Victory for the Bush administration on telecom immunity
Captain Ed has the details of the Bush admnistration’s legislative win on telecom immunity yesterday.
The best campaign Christmas video of the season
Awesome (via Fred File):
Bad news for the anti-war left
One of their favorite retired Generals, Major General John Batiste, who appeared in an ad for the anti-war Vote Vets website, and who had an op/ed published on the liberal anti-war website Think Progress in August in which he called for the US to “begin a responsible and deliberate redeployment from Iraq,” has apparently changed his tune.
Democrats on waterboarding, then versus now
Fresh on the heels of finding out that ranking Democrats knew of the CIA’s videotaping of aggressive interrogation techniques of suspected terrorists, and the later destruction of two of those tapes – all the while doing nothing about it, anti-Bush liberals learned today via the Washington Post (h/t: Jimmie) that in secret briefings dating back to 2002, ranking Democrats raised no objections to the now-discarded practice of “waterboarding,” an interrogation technique Democrats have held over the administration’s head for the past couple of years as an example of “torture” (emphasis added):
CIA tape destruction controversy
The big story the past couple of days has been the news of the CIA’s admission that they destroyed at least two interrogation tapes back in 2005 (h/t: Captain Ed):
“Compassionate liberalism” rears its ugly head again
While most of us were giving thanks last week before our Thanksgiving dinners for the sacrifices our brave men and women in uniform have made in the line of duty, a row was developing in Surrey (UK) after injured British servicemen were forced out of a therapeutic swimming session at Leatherhead Leisure Centre in the Headley Court area due to angry, arrogant protests by club members protesting the swim lane closures: