Rox Populi has some of the funniest caption contests around. A great source of information and fun. We at the Stiftung visit Rox Populi every day -- you should, too.
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Laura Rozen tracks the continued focus on the Counter Terrorism Evaluation Group at OSD as the stovepipe channel to circumvent vettting by the wider IC. (Important! Remember that when you see Stephen Haynes from the Weekly Standard bloviating on TV on intelligence subjects, he was "Useful Idiot" No. 1 for the Feith leaks, etc.).
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Steve Clemmons has excerpts from the Nelson Report on the White House's latest thinking on torture, responding to congressional criticism and the denials of the Eastern European American GULAG allegations ( Главное Управление Исправительно— Трудовых Лагерей и колоний
. They have not been turned into worker camps, yet. So they are more akin to Butryka Prison, perhaps.Nelson Report excerpts
David Neiwert asks a question related to the Culture of Empire thread here:
Monday, November 07, 2005
Ask yourself which is the more important principle:
-- the right of American citizens to vote, or
-- preventing those who are ineligible to vote from doing so.
Now, think of this as a kind of Rohrschach test: The answer you give is neither right nor wrong. But it does tell us a great deal -- about your politics, about your priorities, and about what kind of American you are.
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