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Tip of the Iceberg

……, any other option appeals; risking one’s life is an easy decision. How do you stop people willing to risk drowning, torture, … death? As Europe soon discovered, the onrush…

Tic Tac Toe, Supreme Court style

…never intended “a radical curtailment of state common-law lawsuits seeking compensation for injuries caused by defectively designed or labeled medical devices.” But Scalia, in response, said, “It is not our…

America’s Most Odious

…the war zones in Iraq; he loved to visit the troops on the battlefield. Cheney was then, still is, really big on torture. Why, Lord, did you let this miserable…

The Innocents

…religion, or any other status. Human rights include the right to life and liberty, freedom from slavery and torture, freedom of opinion and expression, the right to work and education,…

My 9/11 memorial

…used to justify the US invasion and military occupation of Iraq*, the torture and abuse of innocent Afghanis, and the continued incarceration without trials of men at the US military…

The Trump conviction, first thoughts

“torture memo” Yoo is calling for revenge prosecutions.  Chait points out that Yoo is affiliated with AEI and Hoover, “reasonable” right-wing think tanks.  Naturally, principled classical liberal Donald Boudreaux cites…