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Torture Enters the Courtroom Jun. 10, 2021
For the first time in American history, a federal judge last week authorized the government to admit... Read More
Time Well Spent in London's Clink Prison May. 10, 2020
By Sharon Whitley Larsen "What did you do in London?" several friends inquired about my trip there. ... Read More
John McCain and Me Aug. 30, 2018
About four years ago, I was browsing through one of Manhattan's last remaining independent bookstore... Read More
What I Want to Remember About John McCain Aug. 29, 2018
On May 14, 1973, two months after John McCain's release from a North Vietnamese prison, U.S. News & ... Read More
Stopping Kim Jong Un Jun. 23, 2017
Otto Warmbier's death is one of hundreds of thousands at the hands of the most brutal regime in the ... Read More
Disturbing Lessons from the Chicago Beating Jan. 10, 2017
Last week, four young blacks — two males, both 18 years old; and two females, 18 and 24 years-... Read More
The Real Threat to the Constitution Is Trump Sep. 25, 2016
For a Republican presidential nominee, Donald Trump has shown an unprecedented aptitude for alienati... Read More
Make America Great Again -- at Torture! Feb. 13, 2016
The undisputed front-runner for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination who, like every other re... Read More
More American Fascism: Trump's Bigotry Relies on Legal and Historical Precedents Dec. 11, 2015
George Stephanopoulos, ABC News: "You're increasingly being compared to Hitler. Does that give you a... Read More
The Rest of the 'Unbroken' Story Dec. 23, 2014
On Dec. 25, the unforgettable story about Louis Zamperini, an Olympian turned World War II prisoner ... Read More
Spy vs. DiFi Dec. 21, 2014
The needle already was in the haystack. That essentially is the message embedded in the Democrats' S... Read More
Is Government Faithful to the Constitution? Dec. 18, 2014
When the government is waving at us with its right hand, so to speak, it is the government's left ha... Read More
If Waterboarding Works, Does That Make It Morally Acceptable? Dec. 17, 2014
In an interview on Sunday, NBC's Chuck Todd asked former Vice President Dick Cheney whether he is "O... Read More
Democrats' Wasteful Torture Report Dec. 17, 2014
The recent release of a Senate report commissioned by Democrats regarding torture of terrorism suspe... Read More
Masters of Deceptive Persuasion Dec. 16, 2014
Democrats are the masters of deceptive persuasion, meaning they will take our attention off somethin... Read More
Tortured Reasoning Dec. 16, 2014
Critics and defenders of the harsh interrogation methods applied to captured terrorists can argue fo... Read More
Consider the Source Dec. 13, 2014
On election night in 1986, when John McCain won the U.S. Senate seat in Arizona long held by Republi... Read More
Crimes Without Punishment Dec. 11, 2014
With the release of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence report on the use of torture by the ... Read More
Obama, the Islamic State and Christian Crucifixions (Part 1) Aug. 19, 2014
Pundits and news agencies have questioned the validity of reports that the Islamic State is beheadin... Read More
DiFi's Tortured Logic on CIA Interrogations Aug. 12, 2014
Sen. Dianne Feinstein is a woman on a mission. As chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, s... Read More
