Still torturing ...

In my mind this makes Obama a complete failure as a human being:

The Status of Torture in Obama's America

... The President began with a big series of presidential orders that supposedly ended the Bush administration's policy of torturing prisoners, and shut down the CIA's black site prisons.

But as we know now, not all the black site prisons were shut down. Nor was the torture ended. Whether its beatings and forced-feedings at Guantanamo, or the kinds of torture described at Bagram, it's obvious that torture has not been rooted out of U.S. military-intelligence operations. In fact, by way of the Obama administration's recent approval of the Bush-era Army Field Manual on interrogations, with its infamous Appendix M, which allows for much of the kind of torture practiced at Bagram, the White House has institutionalized a level of torture that was introduced by the previous administration, but which has been studied and devised over the last fifty or sixty years.

Prisons R Us ...

... America took a distinctly conservative turn in the 1970s. ... One of the effects is that there has been a pandering to really very ill thought out prejudice on an array of issues.

Like three strike and you are out. Only in the Republican mind would baseball be the model for a justice system.

And I know, some Democrats very stupidly followed this disastrous route just like they followed along on the Iraq war ...

When they're right, they're right ...

The Tucson Citizen opines:

But when it comes to relieving the shortage of beds for Arizona's ever-growing population of convicts, the state's latest foray into privatization so far has been more Enron than iPod.