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Chinese Interrogation Techniques Used at Guantánamo - NYTimes.com
Source: The New York Times

The military trainers who came to Guantánamo Bay in December 2002 based an entire interrogation class on a chart...copied verbatim from a 1957 Air Force study of Chinese Communist techniques used during the Korean War to obtain confessions, many of them false, from American pris …

Man Who Took His Family To a Remote Alaska Island To Live Biblically Sentenced to 14 Years For Sexual Assault, Incest, Coercion
Source: Yahoo! News

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A man who called himself "Papa Pilgrim" and took his family far from civilization to raise them according to his interpretation of the Bible was sentenced to 14 years in prison for sexually assaulting a daughter.

Women's advocacy group argues Arkansas law should be nationwide
Source: OneNewsNow.com

"We have cases where even husbands were telling wives 'we have three or four children, and we don't want any more. If you don't have an abortion I will leave you.' Now that's pretty much coercion if I ever heard it..."

Live and Let Live
Source: RealClearPolitics

Last week, I bemoaned New York Times columnist David Brooks's eagerness to have government impose force on others.

Nuclear power links to 'sham' energy review
Source: Guardian Unlimited

Key consultants working on the government's controversial energy review, which recommended a new generation of nuclear power stations, have strong links to the nuclear industry, The Observer can reveal.

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