From RR

• Pentagon Pentagram official: ‘We tortured.’ Mr Cheney’s reaction: ‘Hey, nobody’s perfect. Mistakes were made.’ Better people have been impeached for less.
• Ex-Gitmo guard and former inmates team up to describe horror.
• Let them eat cake: why have the US government (that is, taxpayers) spend $15m for an inauguration when the country’s in a depression?
• Lawsuit: ‘Jesuits used Alaska and its aboriginals as dumping-ground for pædo priests.’ Sacerdotalism is not clericalism as Fr Rutler has noted. As a free-marketeer Catholic I say these criminal institutions deserve to go out of business. BTW local Catholic-revival priest Fr Brannan is a real old-school Jesuit and my own priest, like new congressman and orthodox RC Joseph Cao, a former one (a seminarian not a priest but a professed SJ, 45 years ago). For some perspective Mark Shea notes: if only Anglican priests could marry and if only women could be teachers. Teachers have a worse record for this than priests.
• British Big Brother database a ‘terrifying’ assault on traditional freedoms or an Englishman’s home ought to be his castle even if he watches porn on tele or the Internet.
• As much as I hate bully cops, lighten up! At most this deserves a reprimand.‘I’m under arrest for trying to steal the bride’ is cute.
• The new Cold War gets colder. The Russian-Ukrainian gas row.
• Why should a journalist’s race matter?
• Rights as basic principles not privileges from the state.
• The Internet-predator scare: stating the sexually obvious is not allowed. Approximately 90% of all “children” on the web don’t receive “solicitations”. Of those who do over 90% receive them from other “children”. Just like most guilty priests aren’t pædos. They’re gay.
• Should the government bail out newspapers?
• Why state-funded energy R&D doesn’t work.