Torture as official US military policy

UK lawmakers accuse US of grave rights violations The United States has committed “grave violations of human rights” against prisoners in Guantanamo Bay, Afghanistan and Iraq, the Foreign Affairs Committee of Britain’s parliament said in a report on Friday. Pentagon…

Local police block Jeb Bush from seizing Schiavo

Hours after a judge ordered that Terri Schiavo was not to be removed from her hospice, a team of state agents were en route to seize her and have her feeding tube reinserted — but they stopped short when local…

Faux Fox sendup

My friend Joe Delaplaine has done a quite funny, witty sendup of Fox News, complete with idiot announcers, inept reporters in the field, and non-stop ticker “news.” Good stuff indeed. View the movie. (Quicktime, 3 min, 45 MB ) Email…

The ethics of the end of life

One of the Vatican’s more definitive statements on the end of life is a 1951 document by Pope Pius XII, declaring that the Catholic Church holds that a person is obliged to always preserve life, but that obligation was not…

More government interference against small business

Police arrest teenager for selling marijuana-laced brownies 80-year-old man arrested for selling crack and methColombian police find drugs sub. A nearly complete eight-metre fibreglass submarine, capable of carrying 10 tonnes cocaine, worth $200m, was found in the Pacific port of…