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Credit, where credit is due...like the blind squirrel, Lil' Tommy has found a nut. Unfortunately, and as usual, it has absolutely nothing to do with economics.

His premise is correct: waterboarding is torture. It has been since the Spanish Inquisition and has been documented accordingly. Well done on pointing that out. (I wonder if our brave Sean Hannity has put his money where his mouth is yet. Not likely.) Instead of getting lost in the weeds again with his ridiculous fixation on Lincoln, he could have easily made the next logical step. ie. it is an EFFECT, not a CAUSE.

In other words, the appropriate argument would have been that the Bush & Obama administration's flouting of the law LED to waterboarding. Torture is illegal. But for more than a decade, our attorneys general won't enforce the law. Breaking the law is a common feature in totalitarian governments. But if the law only applies to 'little people', you may call it a Republic, but it really is a fascist state with a facsimile of justice.

Focus, Lil' Tommy, focus.

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Beginning of the headline : What do the Nazi Gestapo, the South African police during Apartheid, the Japanese military during World War II, Spanish "Grand Inquisitor" Tomas de Torquemada, William Kristol, Charles Krauthammer, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Senator Joe Lieberman, and Marc Levin have in common? The answer is that they were/are all practitioners of or apologists for forms of water torture that have long been illegal under U... Read More

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