What do Yucca Mountain and Guantanamo Bay have in common? Yucca Mountain is where the government wants to keep incredibly dangerous substances -- nuclear waste -- until we figure out a better way to handle it. Guantanamo Bay is where the government keeps incredibly dangerous people -- jihadi...
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A U.S. military judge has ruled that a Pentagon official who oversees the Guantanamo war crimes tribunals will be barred from providing counsel during a post-trial review for a Canadian terror suspect. The judge, Army...
Echidne snarks about it: Then Palin went on attack, telling us how very much better John McCain was than Barack Obama, because he was a POW and was tortured. Lots of people in Guantanamo Bay will be surprised to hear that...
The Chinese government announced on Friday that it is providing cash assistance to the governments of Cuba, Jamaica and the United States, the three countries hit by Hurricane Gustav. According to the announcement, China...
I was on my way home this evening, and I was listening to McCain's speech. Who'd a thought?), McCain was mentioning once again his story about being a prisoner of war. Have you noticed and he did it again this evening,...