No Brainer
By Waterboarding–now officially endorsed by the Vice President of the United States (whether his lackeys lie about it or not)–is, in fact, torture. Lederman and Balkin explain in detail.
I also like Sully going all rhetorically McArdle on Hugh Hewitt:
I do not make an argument in the book about Planned Parenthood. I just use it because I think that’s a beautiful statement of the freedom of individual conscience, and the freedom of the individual liberty, of the individual person, which you, of course, disagree with profoundly, and want the executive to be able to pluck people off the streets and jail them without charges. That’s your position, right?
HH: You see no inconsistency in quoting from an opinion…
AS: I see inconsistency in someone who calls himself an Evangelical Catholic supporting torture, like you do.
To be clear, supporting the Republicans, 2006 edition, means supporting the arbitrary power of the executive to pick up people and torture them without charges or recourse to the courts. Full stop.