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May 2018

May 12, 2018

The Return of Torture

In 2009, Pew did a study of support for torture among Americans and found that...

March 2018

March 19, 2018

Actual prolife Catholics listen to the Church and oppose the death penalty and torture

Christians agree with the Church that the point is not to ask when we get...

July 2017

July 19, 2017

State Department to Shutter Office…

...that focuses on investigation of war crimes. Just planning ahead: ABC Breaking News | Latest...

February 2017

February 02, 2017

Why have I never heard this story?

Meet Dianna Ortiz: Dianna Ortiz (born 1961) is an American Roman Catholic nun of the...

January 2017

January 27, 2017

Sean Hannity Makes the Case for Domestic Torture

Hannity acts as Minister of Propaganda for Trump Torture Regime What is sinister about this...

January 26, 2017

Trump calls for torture, says it works

...argues we have to fight fire with fire. This is as clear a moral choice...

December 2016

December 06, 2016

Nearly Half of Americans Think Torture Can be Useful

They believe this based, not on the actual information provided by real interrogators who insist...

November 2016

November 23, 2016

God bless General Mattis

Marine General James "Mad Dog" Mattis appears to be a soldier of the old school...

September 2016

September 20, 2016

Nothing says “prolife” like love of torture and murder

Mike Pence greatly admires Dick Cheney and would model his Vice Presidency on his. That...

November 2015

November 23, 2015

Meanwhile, Ben Carson Follows Trump into Cheering for Torture

The anti-abortion-but-not-prolife Right continues to poison the gospel with love of mortal sin.

August 2015

August 20, 2015

Jeb Bush Throws a Bit of Red Meat to the Torture-Loving GOP Base

Sends a clear signal that he's open to reviving the Chamber of Horrors his brother's...

August 07, 2015

The American Psychological Association

...court prophets to Bush Administration torture program.

February 2015

February 27, 2015

Not Just Evil, But Stupid Too

Judge Andrew Napolitano breaks with the conservative hivemind at FOX to point out that if...

February 07, 2015

Pete Vere on the Utter Blasphemous Folly of Christian Torture Apologetics

He finds a piece by an atheist ex-Christian excoriating Christian torture apologetics which reads, in...

January 2015

January 29, 2015

There Really is No Wiggle Room for Torture Sophists

A reader writes: I just wanted to share something that I think is significant as...

January 22, 2015

Christian Democracy on the Tortured Logic of Torture Logic

...here and here.

January 16, 2015

We are a land of laws…

...until torture is sanctioned by the government. In the period when the abuses were going...

January 10, 2015

More Wearying Attempts to Avoid the Bleeding Obvious

A reader writes: I've enjoyed your talks and essays from time to time, but I...

December 2014

December 29, 2014

Phil Lawler Wrestles with a Mysteriously Popular Desperate Lie from Catholic Torture Defenders

The man has written wisely and well on the this beloved-by-far-too-many-conservative-Catholics mortal sin and, as...

December 18, 2014

Today’s Desperate Lies from Torture Defenders

In the ongoing effort of "prolife" Torture Defenders to ignore the fact that, among other...

December 18, 2014

A Novena Proposal For a Consistent Ethic of Life

Mark Gordon writes: Most disappointing are those Catholics who pair their acceptance of torture –...

December 18, 2014

The CIA didn’t just torture…

...they experimented on human beings. Torture Defenders: Why die on this hill? Why go on...

December 17, 2014

Today’s Desperate Lie from a Torture Defender

Just as though I have not recommended How to Break a Terrorist (by an actual...

December 16, 2014

The next time a “prolife” Torture Defender says…

"Liberal pantywaists care more about a few terrorists than they do about the unborn" bear...

December 16, 2014

Real Men

Another popular lie of the Torture Defender is enunciated by a manly laptop bombardier in...

December 16, 2014

Times Have Changed

Chesterton once said, "The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The...

December 15, 2014

Dear Catholic Torture Defender: Here is what you are struggling to defend

BRET BAIER, FOX NEWS: Sir, did the ends justify the means? FORMER VICE PRESIDENT DICK CHENEY:...

December 15, 2014

Today’s Act of Lying Desperation in Defense of Torture

Cowardly draft dodger defends anal rape. He uses two lies to do this. One is...

December 15, 2014

All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God

Dear Torture Defending members of the Party of Personal Responsibility: Your beloved blameshifting lie that...

December 15, 2014

Since Charles Krauthammer is in the News Defending Torture

...and various manly readers from Pewsitter have busied themselves in my comboxes with the standard...

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