Friday's Daily Brief

2009-04-24

The Daily Brief

Arianna Huffington: The Torture Moment

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Arianna Huffington: The way we respond to the revelations about the Bush administration's use of torture will define the kind of country we are. It is a test of our courage and our convictions. So far, the media are not getting high marks. They can't seem to shake their addiction to looking at every issue through the archaic prism of right vs. left. So we get Dan Balz saying that Obama's release of the torture memos "has stirred a major controversy on the right and left" and that those on the left "are demanding that [Obama] acknowledge their point of view." Since when is the need to adhere to the laws that govern us a left-wing "point of view"? Is Thou Shalt Not Kill a "point of view"? Isn't torture one of those things where there really is no legitimate other side? Click here to read more.

Steve Benen: We Already Went Through Our 'Banana Republic' Phase

Republican lawmakers and officials are all using the same coordinated phrase, but they don't seem to know what a "Banana Republic" is.

Leslie Harris: Because "Classified Ad Killer" Doesn't Have the Same Ring

A great many of the tragic incidents that tangentially involve the Internet have little or nothing to do with the Internet itself. The Craigslist case is the latest example of that phenomenon.

David Bromwich: Follow the Evidence

The truth about what Bush and Cheney and Addington and Yoo and Cambone and Feith and a handful of others did must be known before it can be judged, and all that can be judged is the content of their actions.

Eric Gertler: Time to Take the "News" and "Paper" Out of Newspapers

To survive, newspapers need to do more than dump their print content online (which further cannibalizes the print editions) and charge for it. That is not sufficient.

Trey Ellis: Never Again

What moral scale could the administration and Harry Reid possibly be using for not wanting to immediately determine which former government officials either sanctified or urged the CIA to torture?

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