"My horns? They look like this."

Former Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other senior U.S. officials share much of the blame for detainee abuse at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, according to portions of a report released on Thursday by the Senate Armed Services Committee.

The report's executive summary, made public by the committee's Democratic chairman Sen. Carl Levin of Michigan and its top Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona, said Rumsfeld contributed to the abuse by authorizing aggressive interrogation techniques at Guantanamo Bay on December 2, 2002.

Click for the story at Reuters.com.

Kudos are due to John McCain for making this his first major deed since the election.

Paying the Price

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President Bush 2008

What Climate Change Means to America

CALIFORNIA EDITION

Shepard Fairey Triumphant!

Hope

Read all about it!

This is a must see - a collection of the front pages of hundreds of newspapers from around the world on November 5, 2008.

I ran across this on the excellent election meta-polling and analysis site, electoral-vote.com, which I have been studying compulsively for the last 6 weeks or so.

There is some fascinating info posted now, including an analysis of the accuracy of the pollsters (Quinnipiac = 100%, Rasmussen = 43%) and an analysis for evidence of a Bradley Effect that concluded it did not exist in this election.

Finally, a very cool slideshow of electoral-vote.com's daily metapoll maps from the end of the primaries until Election Day.

God bless America!