When Ed Markay and Earl Blumenauer’s amendment calling for and end to the funding of torture of detainees and extraordinary rendition came up for a vote on Wednesday, it passed the House 420 to 2. So who the hell were the 2 who voted in favor of the use of government funds for torture? The [...]

Dornan’s battle of the neurotransmitters continues Uber blowhard and former House member Bob Dornan was on MSNBC this morning railing about the Terry Schiavo case, and saying that “the Islamic world” has denounced the removal of her feeding tube today, along with spouting a lot of off-topic nonsense about Oregon doctors murdering fetuses I really [...]

When the House voted yesterday to approve $82 billion more for the War in Iraq, two Democratic Reps — Earl Blumenauer (OR) and Ed Markey (MA) — authored an amendment prohibiting the use of federal funds both for the torture of detainees in American custody, and for shipping them to countries that do allow torture [...]