Let's entertain a simple intellectual exercise.  You and I are going to play a game.  Here are the rules:

1. In my left hand I'm holding a $100 bill.
2. In my right hand I'm holding a $50 bill.
3. You can choose which amount you want to take, but...
4. Upon your choosing
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An open admission by NPR that American Exceptionalism precludes the capacity for the U.S. to torture.

 Transcribed from a July 7th Radio Broadcast segment by KUOW Seattle, available here (_{at about the 20:11 mark, and thanks to Glenn Greenwald for the heads up):}

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There seems to be a disastrous riptide brewing in the establishment debate over healthcare reform. The simultaneous development of pressures to push what's called an "individual mandate" (where you are required by law to purchase coverage), and the potential subversion of a real public-plan option.… Read full post »