What constitutes torture? A 2002 White House document said it must equal the pain "accompanying serious physical injury, such as organ failure." A more recent memo repudiates that standard, but gives the President the final word on what is acceptable.
Torturous Words
Heather Macdonald, Senior Fellow At the Manhattan Institute, and author, Are Cops Racist? How the War Against the Police Harms Black Americans (Ivan R. Dee, 2003), says disputed interrogation methods are not torture
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Kathleen Clark, Law professer at Washington University ...
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Blog Ethics
Jeff Jarvis, writes the blog Buzzmachine.com, is president & creative director of Advance.net, a division of Conde Nast, on the ethics of the Dean campaign paying prominent bloggers consulting fees
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Open Phones
Your facts, your calls.
NY 51: Central Bronx
Joel Rivera, Council Member (D-District 15, Belmont), Majority Leader, on life and politics in his district
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Infant mortality- A rebuttal
James Taranto takes issue with Nicholas Kristof's conclusions about America's, Cuba's and China's comparative infant mortality rates--though not with Kristof's facts.
Taranto notes that the 2002 jump in American infant mortality followed nearly fifty years of declining rates, and that the jump may be attributable (in part) to the ...
Fact (B)- Poverty in the Developed World
As noted in the last entry, the "fact" that the United States is the only industrialized nation with "appreciable" poverty is harder to confirm, but appears to have some truth to it.
A correspondent notes that the 2004 CIA World factbook puts the USA at 12% living in poverty, ...
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