It's easy to look at the environment at Guantanamo and see nothing but the negative: indefinite detention without proof or charges, torture and other "harsh" treatment, uncertainty as to your fate and safety, and other stuff.

But the Department of Defense, under the able leadership of Donald ("love that homily") Rumsfeld is here to remind us that everything has a sunny side.

If you were foolish enough to think that the thousand serious problems facing our ever-diminishing country had distracted the free marketeers from their push to privatize everything that does and doesn't move, think again.

One consequence of swinging to the absolute extreme of the political spectrum is that you put the moderate members of your party a lot closer to your opponents than to you.

Just ask Ohio Republicans, who are now sniping at each other over the decision of several prominent Repubs to support the Dem candidate for Governor over the Republican choice of Kenneth ("keep down the vote") Blackwell.

Tom Noe, the leading figure in Ohio's disgraceful "coingate" fiasco, has also been convicted of illegal campaign contributions to George Bush. Now the national Republican committee says the illegal funds will be donated "to charity" (emphasis added):

From a letter writer to an editorial to a book reviewer to a Joe Scarborough column...

If I read this right, we may see some congresspersons going to the pokey....

This is far from funny, and seems to corroborate a lot of conspiracy deals....

Well, maybe just a little wrongdoing:

At his press conference today to build support for "harsh" treatment of detainees and fiddling with the Geneva Convention, our fearless leader said the following:

I don't believe the Democrats are going to take over, because our record on the economy is strong. If the American people would take a step back and realize how effective our policies have been, given the circumstances, they will continue to embrace our philosophy of government. We've overcome recession, attacks, hurricanes, scandals, and the economy is growing -- 4.7 percent unemployment rate. It's been a strong economy.

Before Sept. 11, 2001 had even passed into history, we faced a major choice.  How to treat the perpetrators of that day's deeds?  You all know which option the president chose.

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