Gitmo's Indefensible Lawyers

WSJ "...the Amnesty International brochure was better than the Manchester Manual. It cued detainees that the abuses at Abu Ghraib "were not an aberration." The brochure told them that images from the Iraqi prison were consistent with "numerous allegations of torture and ill-treatment reported from detention centres in Afghanistan, Iraq and at Guantanamo Bay." The message to the detainees was clear: If you want to claim you are being tortured, here is a vast menu of examples from which to choose."

California unemployment and Oklahoma’s growth – it’s the ‘Grapes of Wrath’ in reverse

True Slant "The Joads have spent a few generations in California and may be wondering if they left a little too much behind on that dusty farmland that their Okie forebears squatted. And with more than 1 in 4 people jobless in Imperial, the county that abuts San Diego County in southern California, the ones going east to destinations like Oklahoma City just might be making the right bet."

The tea-party movement will change the GOP.

Michael Barone "The Republicans for the last two decades have been a party whose litmus tests have been cultural issues, especially abortion. The tea partiers have helped to change their focus to issues of government overreach and spending. That may be a helpful pivot, given the emergence of a millennial generation uncomfortable with crusading cultural conservatism.It’s not clear whether the tea partiers’ influence on Republicans will last as long as the anti-war cohort’s imprint on Democrats has. But their concern — the fact that government spending is on a trajectory to increase far beyond revenues — seems likely to persist. In which case a spontaneous movement that no one predicted and that no one person led could end up, again, reshaping one of our great political parties."

Forget About the Economy… Statist Obama & the Radicals in Congress Plan to Revamp Education System Next

Gateway Pundit "President Barack Obama unveiled his plan for a sweeping overhaul of the nation’s school system Saturday, proposing changes he says would shift emphasis from teaching to the test to a more nuanced assessment of judging school and student progress."