House Votes to Investigate U.S. Involvement in Yemen’s Secret Torture Prisons
"The House of Representatives on Thursday voted to force a public accounting of the current U.S. role in torture prisons across the south of Yemen."
"The House of Representatives on Thursday voted to force a public accounting of the current U.S. role in torture prisons across the south of Yemen."
"This is still our country. Don’t just sit there. Do something."
"Overcoming the evils of our age will require more than intellect and activism. It will require decency, morality, goodness, truth and toughness."
"In one case, federal officials had turned over eight immigrant children to human traffickers."
Parents concerned about mass murders perpetrated in gun-free zones should ditch public schools for safer alternatives with better educational outcomes, writes Thomas Eckert.
"McCain, who is battling brain cancer, writes that the Iraq War 'can’t be judged as anything other than a mistake, a very serious one, and I have to accept my share of the blame for it.'"
"The fact that this criminalizes speech against a public official is even more concerning."
"The judge admitted that whether one is allowed to film certain court procedures comes down to where a comma is placed in the law."
"Why the lie? Why keep saying that U.S. soldiers have died protecting our rights and freedoms? Because the truth is too embarrassing and too shameful."
"Thanks to a combination of sloppy drafting and clear reluctance to take the executive branch head-on, Corker and Kaine’s proposed AUMF could do the opposite, handing genuinely tyrannical powers over to the president."