Yezidi girls have been captured and raped by ISIS. Some have made it home. From the sound of the report, the Yezidi are a lot more understanding about what the women have been through than a lot of people would be.
•The Bush administration insisted we needed to lock terrorists up as enemy combatants and put them on trial in special military courts because the regular court system couldn’t do the job. As the recent Boston conviction shows, it can. So why, exactly, do we need Guantanamo?
•Here’s a truly jaw-dropping argument against the Affordable Care Act (by a Republican politician): it will humiliate him politically if he accepts benefits under the Affordable Care Act, therefore the act shouldn’t exist.
•Sweden’s foreign minister calls a spade a spade—specifically, she calls the Saudis out on their hideously sexist and antidemocratic regime.
•When pols and pundits warn us about how evil Iran is (and certainly it’s a politically repressive regime), remember this list of things we’ve done to Iran. Digby, linking to the post, adds more about the USS Vincennes shooting down an Iranian airliner, killing 290 civilians, followed by a Navy cover-up.
