Archive for the Torture Category


What is torture?

Is it waterboarding? Bikini waxing? High school? My latest at Examiner doesn’t look at “what Nancy Pelosi knew and when she knew it”, but rather if what was done to Jihadists was torture at all. I think the world needs a little less handwringing and a little more perspective. We must keep in perspective that [...]

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On media bias in Gaza and Europe. From Hudson NY

December 17, 2008 | Khaled Abu Toameh PA Tortures Journalists “This is not Israel, where you are allowed to see a lawyer.” Over the past two years Palestinian journalists in the West Bank and Gaza Strip have been subjected to a systematic campaign of intimidation that has resulted in the death of some and the [...]

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On the treatment of the Jews in Bombay. A difficult post to write.

I have been planning this post since Wendy pointed me at the story. It has taken me all day to manage to format it my head in such a manner that I can get it down. I feel this aspect, this slice of time in terms of the events in Bombay India reveals such malice [...]

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Wherein we break the law

By saying fuck the murderers and the laws that protect them. The now-infamous British case of Baby P: The Deceased: Peter Connolly The Murderers: Tracey Connolly (the so-called mother), Stephen Barker (the step-father, naturally), Jason Barker (his brother) The Crime: Using Peter as a punching bag until dead. The law is shielding the names of [...]

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Cooling off in the summer heat

Lots of people must have been lined up for the opportunity to waterboard Hitchens. Or at least watch. While I’m sure that it’s not really the greatest way to spend an afternoon, I can’t imagine it could be much worse than actually having to read Vanity Fair. In fact, I will be having this done [...]

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