New professional basketball league for whites only.
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New professional basketball league for whites only.
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PETA protests the waterboarding of chickens at GTMO.
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From the WSJ Law Blog, A little less than a year ago, when President Obama set a one-year deadline for closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay, it seemed to many like a realistic goal. But the wind-down has been anything but smooth. Members of Congress have objected to efforts to bring the detainees to the [...]
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Obama administration set to announce where detainees at Guantanamo Bay will be tried.
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Congress agrees to provide funding to move detainees from Guantanamo Bay to the United States for trial.
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Danny Tarkanian, son of Jerry “Tark the Shark” Tarkanian, was awarded, $50,000 in damages. Schneider has agreed not to appeal the verdict. Jurors were scheduled to hear Schneider, a real estate consultant, testify today as to his finances then decide on punitive damages. The deal was reached prior to the hearing. Tarkanian’s attorney, Gus Flangas, [...]
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Author Bjørn Lomborg explains why Al Gore is wrong about the proposed solutions to global warming, These apocalyptic visions are not at all supported by the available evidence. And to me, the solutions prescribed by those leading the charge are akin to building more safari parks instead of farms to feed the hungry. Campaigners in [...]
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First, the title of this post is a bit misleading. President Obama never made a promise to close Guantanamo Bay (GTMO). He only ordered that the detention facility, holding those captured in the GWOT be closed by January 2010. That being said, the recent bill signed into law by the president, H.R. 2346: Supplemental Appropriations [...]
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President Sarkozy looks to ban the bruka in France.
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From Reuters, Four Chinese detainees from Guantanamo Bay arrived in Bermuda on Thursday after being freed by U.S. authorities in the Obama administration’s latest move to close the controversial prison camp for terror suspects. Their release took place the same day China repeated its demand for repatriation of all 17 members of the Uighur ethnic [...]
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President Obama gives speech outlining the way forward on Guantanamo Bay and military commissions.
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In a recent study almost 25 percent of those asked blamed the Jews for the current economic crisis.
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President Obama will announce the continued use of military commissions for detainees held at Guantanamo Bay. But the Senate will not approve any funding that would transfer any of the detainees from Guantanamo Bay to the United States.
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Complaining about bumper stickers is nothing new. “My child is an honor student”,”Dog is my copilot” or “Kill your television”, have all provided ample fodder for countless rants. With the aforementioned caveat, I must now launch into a bumper-sticker-related screed.
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In a recently-released memo it was revealed that the United States used waterboarding on Abu Zubaydah 83 times and Kahalid Shaikh Mohammed 183 times. Now former CIA Director General Michael Hayden, USAF, explains why, Most of the people who oppose these techniques want to be able to say, “‘I don’t want my nation doing this, [...]
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Story and video of people accused of witchcraft being burnt to death in Africa
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CIA torture memo reveals that Abu Zubaydah was waterboarded 83 times and Khalid Shaikh Mohammed was waterboarded 183 times.
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Only 34% of Americans believe global warming is caused by human activity.
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With the number of drone strikes continuing in Pakistan, Pakistan has made it clear both publicly and privately to the Untied States government that we are willing to take out high value terrorist targets on our own, and we welcome the technology and intelligence assistance that will give us the ability to succeed. President Obama [...]
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Senate deals major blow to cap-and-trade.
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Why President Obama Will Not Close Guantanamo Bay
As regular readers of Dreadnaught will recall, President Obama promised to close Guantanamo Bay within one year. Then the president learned that it may not be so easy to close. Congress then opposed the closing and withheld the necessary funds and limited the president’s ability to close GTMO. Now, in a recent WP article, there [...]
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