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"Want some torture with your peanuts?" by Aviation Security

Jul 8, 2008
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http://www.washingtontimes.com/weblogs/aviation...

By Jeffrey DenningJust when you thought you’ve heard it all...A senior government official with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has expressed great interest in a so-called safety bracelet that would serve as a stun device, similar to that of a police Taser®. According to this promotional video found at the Lamperd Less Lethal website, the bracelet would be worn by all airline passengers.

Why some conservatives are backing Obama

Jul 7, 2008
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/...

(07-07) 04:00 PDT Washington -- The "Obamacans" that Sen. Barack Obama used to joke about - Republican apostates who whispered their support for his candidacy - have morphed into a new phenomenon, or syndrome, as detractors like to call it: the Obamacons.

Goodreads | Better Off: Flipping the Switch on Technology (P.S.)

Jun 30, 2008
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http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/143159.Bette...

What is the least we need to achieve the most? With this question in mind, MIT graduate Eric Brende flipped the switch on technology. He and his wife, Mary, ditched their car, electric stove, refrigerator, running water, and everything else motorized or "hooked to the grid," and spent eighteen months living in a remote community so primitive in its technology that even the Amish consider it antiquated. The link will take you to my personal review.

Keith Olbermann | Of War and Golf

May 15, 2008
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http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051508A.shtml

I read about Mr. Bush's aggrievedly giving up his golf game in "solidarity" with Americans killed in Iraq. I read about this about five minutes earlier in an article in The Guardian (U.K.) newspaper. Funny, but the major American news networks have ignored this story. -Mike Finally tonight, as promised, a Special Comment on two topics a lot of us had foolishly thought, had naively hoped, we would not again have to address… and a third topic nobody thought a president would ever seriously mention in public unless perhaps he'd just been hit in the head with something and was not in full possession of his faculties - how he expressed his "empathy" to the families of the dead in Iraq - by giving up golf.

Think Progress » Blog Archive » Cheney On Two-Thirds Of The American Public Opposing The Iraq War:

Mar 24, 2008
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http://thinkprogress.org/2008/03/19/cheney-poll...

This morning, on the fifth anniversary of the Iraq invasion, ABC’s Good Morning America aired an interview with Vice President Cheney on the war. During the segment, Cheney flatly told White House correspondent Martha Raddatz that he doesn’t care about the American public’s views on the war:

Justice Dept. 'Cannot' Probe Waterboarding, Mukasey Says

Feb 7, 2008
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/ar...

The attorney general yesterday rejected growing congressional calls for a criminal investigation of the CIA's use of simulated drownings to extract information from its detainees.