Month March 2006

Forcing a prisoner’s head under water until they believe they are drowning does not necessarily constitute torture or abusive treatment, the Foreign Office has said. “Words mean what we say they mean” would seem to be the appropriate quote from…

(revised and updated) Crashing the Party The Sunday L.A. Times Op-ed section yesterday was titled ‘Conservative Crackup.” It features several opinion pieces by conservatives lamenting how Bush has abandoned them and their causes, and can no longer be trusted. Crashing…

Sandra Day O’Connor says US risks edging near dictatorship Feingold to call for presidential censure There’s more major violence in Iraq. Afghanistan is heading towards civil war too. Neocons talk of attacking Iran. Meanwhile Bush poll numbers are lower than…

Anonymous Source Is Not the Same as Open Source Can an article be judged as credible without knowing its author? Wikipedia says yes, but I am unconvinced.