When Senator Boxer asked General Walsh to please, call me Senator it was like a flashback to In Heat of the Night wherein Sidney Pointer famously said, "They call me Mr. Tibbs" as the law enforcement of that small Mississippi town was investigating a murder. 

His story is compelling and I think it puts another face on the "The Don't Tell Don't Ask" non-sense upheld by our government

When the budget axe falls where does it cut? It falls heavily on those who can least afford it and cuts close to the bone. If there is any doubt that this is true. please listen to the testimony of people about to lose their benefits in California.

The most ironic aspect of these cuts is that California will lose stimulus money if they cut some of these programs.

After Friday's election in Iran, I am so sorry that the United States government can do little more than remain quiet. It wasn't too long ago that we had our version of Iran's election. I don't know how anyone who (is serious about the rule of law) didn't stand up during the 2000 and 2004 elections in the United States can right now hardly criticize the outcome or the government of Iran without seriously being a hypocrite.

This leads me to believe that United States will have to remain quiet when it comes to torture. I hope that I am wrong but I think if the United States government doesn't make corrections quickly, this aberration will weigh the country--even the world-- down when--if it hasn't already-- it tries to respond to human right abuses throughout the world. The United States will have spent what little moral authority it has left to call other countries on the carpet when it comes to specific issues of human right abuses.