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...speech advocates are making important inroads. In June, a federal appeals panel ruled in favor of a coalition of TV networks (Fox, CBS, NBC, and ABC) that argued that they should not be held responsible if they broadcast shows that use obscene language. If President Bush and Vice President Cheney are allowed to curse in public, the coalition argued, why should individual networks be held responsible? This small glimmer of hope could indicate that WBAI’s decision to not air “Howl” was not one of fear but rather one of subtle protest. They?...
...Cheney noted that "we have been safe for six years." She did not mention that almost 4,000 U.S. service members and tens of thousands of innocent Iraqi civilians have lost their lives. But history might note that. Lawrence J. Martin, Elburn...
...From the Beltway to the Tetons I just finished reading 10 questions for Lynne Cheney, and I am as appalled by her arrogance as I am by her spouse's [Oct. 1]. When asked if the negative press affects their personal relationship, she answered that it's easy to ignore "if you know that what you're doing is the right thing." That strikes me as revealing either terrible naiveté or a stubborn sense of entitlement. Not only has this self-righteous thinking gotten the U.S. into a no-win war, but it has also stripped us of constitutional...
...Nick, a cocky young professor whom an older college couple (Arthur Hill and Uta Hagen) have fun unmanning on their way to their own, more melancholy accommodation with reality. He also made an impression in a big movie, the political drama Advise and Consent, as a snaky, pre-Cheney Wyoming Senator, trying to blackmail a colleague for an early brush with homosexuality. In my innocent appreciation, I didn't think he was good at playing bad guys; I thought he was a bad guy. Maybe that's why I also assumed that his surname rhymed with lizard. (It's GrizZARD...
...Justice Department had issued a secret legal opinion in 2005 approving a combination of particularly tough interrogation tactics, White House spokesperson Dana Perino said, "The bottom line is that we do not use torture." When Congress and the White House battled over detainee rights in 2006, Vice President Dick Cheney argued that techniques like simulated drowning didn't amount to torture. And last August, after the New Yorker reported the latest in a string of private memos sent to the U.S. government by the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) asserting that U.S. interrogation techniques were "tantamount to torture...