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Slate Magazine (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
What happens at Gitmo stays at Gitmo. That was always the hope. When the Bush administration fenced off a dusty little patch of lawlessness in Cuba, the idea was that breaking the law abroad would somehow preclude us from breaking it at home. But last week revealed, yet again, that the worst of Guantanamo was always destined to spill over into the United States. Gitmo's lawlessness is now our own....
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Truth Out (Free subscription) | yesterday
Washington - A federal appeals court temporarily blocked the release of 17 Chinese-born Muslims detained at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a day after a landmark decision required them to be shipped to the U.S. read more
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Salon (Free subscription) | yesterday
Why is the Bush administration continuing to imprison 17 detainees in Guantanamo whom it acknowledges are innocent? And what is the latest on the President's power to imprison U.S. citizens as "enemy combatants"?
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MSNBC.com: Newsweek National News (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
It will be harder to tune them out when they are not just nameless men behind barbed wire.
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Thinking Right | ajc.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Thinking Right’s weekend free-for-all. Pick a topic: I’ve long since given up the effort to deny accusations that aren’t criminal in nature. But that rule now has the Annette Kesting Exception. Accuse me of paying a voodoo “priestess” for any...
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All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
A former detainee at Guantanamo, Mr Mustafa Ibrahim Mustafa, who was released after seven years, has told of the suffering that he faced at the notorious prison after his arrest in Pakistan in 2001.
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Andy Worthington (Free subscription) | yesterday
Andy Worthington, author of The Guantánamo Files, continues his analysis of the corrupt command structure of the Military Commissions at Guantánamo, with new information from Maj. David Frakt, one of the Commissions’ military defense lawyers. In the last three weeks, two events have occurred that have dealt what should have been a knockout blow to the [...]
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From On High (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
Wasn't it some Virginia congressman who suggested that the terrorists being held in Guantanamo be sent to our fair state for safekeeping? Wasn't he laughed out of the state? Well, it looks like some fruitcake of a federal judge has taken up his suggestion. For the love of God: Anger over Guantanamo Bay ruling BBC The White House has reacted angrily after a judge ordered that 17 Chinese Muslims held...
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Salt Lake Tribune (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
April Durrant is a proud military wife. Her husband did a tour of duty in Iraq in 2003. Now he is in Afghanistan. "We've been in it for 20 years," Durrant says. "It's absolutely not for everyone. It's tough on people, tough on families to have a long career in the military."
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Dispatches from the Culture Wars (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
It's the first Monday in October, so the Supreme Court is back in the saddle again. James Hanley posts at Positive Liberty about some of the interesting cases on the docket. Here are two I'll be watching closely. Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post...
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Townhall.com (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Free Republic's Kristinn Taylor has an extensive write-up of Barack Obama's close relationship with the radical Code Pink founder Jodi Evans up HERE.It's a very well-researched item. Definitely good weekend reading that...
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WhyFame (Free subscription) | 19 hours ago
The Huffington Post has details of Angelina Jolie’s interview in German Vanity Fair and it does contain the quotes that have been repeated in the British press that she likes to take a bath with Brad at night and the kids try to sneak in when they hear the water running. She also talks about the isolation of fame and of not being able to go out... [ More on WhyFame.com ]
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On the Wilder Side (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago
from Democracy Now! JUAN GONZALEZ: The American Psychological Association has approved a landmark measure banning members from taking part in interrogations of prisoners held in Guantanamo Bay, Iraq, Afghanistan and all of the secret CIA black sites. Nearly 60 percent of members voted in favor of the referendum in the largest turnout for an APA vote [...]
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Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 18 hours ago
As of Friday, Oct. 10, 2008, at least 540 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to the Defense Department. The department last updated its figures Friday at 10 a.m. EDT.
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Gift Hub (Free subscription) | 17 hours ago
David Hoch and Odette Wilkens:The Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA), whose recent passage received virtually no media coverage, will chill the first amendment rights of animal advocates and serve as a template for future limitations on the free speech of...
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cherylt | 05/01/2008
So, Neil Patrick Harris triumphs with a pithy turn in the stoner adventure , Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay . But how can anyone call his no-basis-in-reality debauched former child star portrayal an Oscar worthy self-parody? "To the delight of fans and critics alike, he reprises his turn as Neil Patrick Harris, a doped-up, egomaniacal, prostitute-loving, unicorn-riding narcissist wielding...
