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Are these Democratic Capital Hill folks fools, or do they just think we, the American public, are? Despite her previous denials declassified records show that Nancy Pelosi was briefed 40 times on enhanced interrogation techniques. Meanwhile Sen. Jay Rockefeller has now contradicted his own denial in his own report. Ms. Pelosi’s denials are also difficult [...]

Gosh, I guess even Comedy Central realized that calling President Truman a “war criminal” is beyond the pale. Stewart issued an apology, kind of. I’ll agree with Michael Goldfarb — his accusation against Truman wasn’t exactly spontaneous. However, Stewart was accurate that day in that emotional people say stupid things because their ego won’t let [...]

A very true point by William McGurn: Now that Democrats have their coveted 60-vote majority in the Senate, why haven’t they legislatively banned and thus made illegal the CIA’s “enhanced interrogation techniques,” including waterboarding? Why indeed. Over the past few years, the Democrats have moved to ban waterboarding only when it was clear that such [...]

Ho, hum, more misleading slant from the New York Times. Nothing new here: [Fox News] The New York Times reported last week that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11 terror attacks, was waterboarded 183 times in one month by CIA interrogators. The “183 times” was widely circulated by news outlets throughout [...]

Let’s get at the truth too about the word “torture,” which to different people, means different things. Some think “torture” means standing on the 98th floor of a burning skyscraper and realizing you have a choice between jumping and being incinerated. Some think torture is being crushed when a building implodes around you. Some think [...]