Scott Horton, in remarks delivered at the City University Law Review Symposium “Preventing Torture,” in New York City, March 28, 2008:
The torture policy of the Bush Administration is a policy of, by and for torturers. It marks a radical departure from prior U.S. policies of honorable compliance with the Convention. We have every right to […]
On his way to the Constitution Center in Philadelphia a few days ago, to give a historic speech about race relations in America, Barack Obama stopped outside a Quaker school to “meet and greet” with a group of second graders.
This picture was taken on Race Street, outside the Friends Select School.
Race Street ??? Hmm . […]
Just a thought from a Quaker perspective…
It seems a fair reflection of the general political-religious discourse today that pastor Wright is confounded with the religious community that Obama joined. Well, maybe Obama has emphasized the pastor Wright as part of his inspiration, but in his speech today he also spoke of the congregation at large:
Like […]
Adm. William ‘Fox’ Fallon resigns. I guess we’ve moved to DEFCON 3.
No wonder Bush/Cheney are so blasé about the prospects for a Democratic sweep this fall…
Thomas P.M. Barnett, a former professor at the Naval War College, … predicts that if Fallon leaves his position at Central Command, “it may well mean that the president and […]
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