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Tag: Dick Cheney
Posted inBlogs
Sy Hersh on his rough-and-tumble Chicago past: ‘At some point I realized I was in a tyranny’
An interview with the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, who discusses his Chicago origin story and more.
Posted inArts & Culture
In Trap Door Theatre’s Cookie Play a suburban household becomes a CIA black site
This dark comedy offers a potent metaphor for the cruelty we countenance in the name of homeland security.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
It didn’t lie well with them
Dan’s read the riot act over a recent column on abortion; the advice seeker weighs in too.
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The Quiet Rooms—formerly known as the Back Rooms
Dick Cheney can tell Mitt Romney where to find a good quiet room
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Print the Reagan Myth: False History Repeats Itself
A strange desire for Obama to be Bush III.
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Read the Secret CIA Reports on Interrogation Abuses
The New York Times has posted online the complete — though heavily redacted — 2004 CIA report on abuses inside CIA-run prisons. It’s also posted two subsequent CIA reports that supposedly, if you’re listening to Dick Cheney, recount the intelligence successes that justified the abuse.
Posted inArts & Culture
The Punishment We Deserve
A review of Cruel and Unusual: The Culture of Punishment in America, by Anne-Marie Cusac (Yale University Press)
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Note to Homer Glen residents: wear garlic
Dick Cheney to campaign for Marty Ozinga, who’s up for Jerry Weller’s seat, and other IL political developments.
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Why is Dick Cheney talking like an environmentalist?
Of all the things Cheney could have borrowed from the environmental movement, he had to pick one of its worst ideas.