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For a long time I resisted the word "torture" when discussing the "enhanced interrogation techniques" used against high-value captives in the war on terror. I don't think I can do that anymore. The report put out by Diane Feinstein and her fellow Democrats may be partisan, one-sided, tendentious and "full of crap," as Dick Cheney put it the other night on "Special Report with Bret Baier." But even the selective use and misuse of facts doesn't change their status as facts. What some of these detainees went through pretty obviously amounted to torture. You can call it "psychological torture" or...

I just wanted to ask you freeper's.. Some new hispanics moved in my neighbourhood 3 months ago. It is a man,wife, son 22 years old,daugher 9 years old. Their son likes to smoke weed and drinks beer sitting in his driveway in his suv. He smokes the weed in a way, it is hard to capture him on film doing it. He sits in his driveway next to my driveway and he has his music turned up in his suv as loud as it can be made to go up.My whole house shakes,rattles, it's boom,boom,boom.The other home owners are Hispanic...

Ever find yourself sitting at a red light and all you can hear is the base of a sound system coming from another car? I mean you can actually feel the vibrations of the noise they call music. I never have been able to understand how someone could actually be enjoying whatever it is they are listening to, but to each their own. I do know that some day in the future those individuals will be wondering what everyone else is saying because they will be deaf. Now I could write a whole article, loaded with facts and figures...

On Fox News, Bill O’Reilly interviewed(video included) Brian Ross on the subject of “coercive interrogation” techniques. I couldn’t find a transcript online, so here’s one I put together, just for my own reference. Maybe you’ll find it useful, too.