The Mahablog: Today's Gulag News!

David Niewert at Orcinus has a must-read post on torture, the right-wing mob, and Dick Durbin.

Spin and distortion are, as always, playing a critical role in the brouhaha. The key is that conservatives are deliberately misrepresenting what Durbin said, and twisting his words into a campaign to paint liberals as treasonous vermin worthy of extermination....