SHADOW GOVERNMENT
"A 43-page, painstakingly annotated report, 'Ending Secret Detentions,' by Human Rights First (formerly named the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights). claims that the the U.S. is holding prisoners in more than two dozen secret detention facilities worldwide. "At least half of these operate in total secrecy...these offshore prisons are 'beyond the reach of adequate supervision, accountability, or law [and the Geneva Conventions]. "
(VILLAGE VOICE)

NUMBER TWO
"Dick Cheney Is a Hobbesian whose doom-laden vision of life as a dog-eat-dog struggle has not only defined our nation's foreign policy but his own public persona."
(VILLAGE VOICE)

SAME SEX MARRIAGE AMENDMENT FLIP-FLOP
"This week the Senate formally debated the Federal Marriage Amendment (FMA) - which would change the U.S. Constitution to eliminate the right of any state to permit same-sex marriage. Having failed to muster sufficient votes to bring it to the floor for a vote, Republican leaders have avowed to continue efforts to pass such a constitutional amendment, though. But, only eight years ago, they were advocating the opposite solution: Rather than federalizing the issue of same-sex marriage, they advocated leaving it to the states. "
(FINDLAW)