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Rats have a rough life in the Big Apple. They are feared, even hated. In many subway stations there are signs warning people to be careful because rat poison has been sprayed in the area. A few months ago, I walked into a subway station and watched a rat that must have been about three quarters of a foot long just walk around as though he owned the place -- with no problem. That was not the case last Friday, when people in Penn Station proved that even though we have passed the time of the gladiators, the mentality has not left us.

August 1961.  Teenage East German border guard Conrad Schumann leaps to freedom on the Western side.  The Cold War begins.

John Yoo is a tenured professor at the University of California-Berkeley School of Law.  He worked for the Bush administration from 2001-2003 as deputy assistant attorney general.  Yoo wrote legal memos affirming the use of torture by the United States against suspected terrorists.

Five Blackwater guards accused of shooting 14 Iraqis civilians are headed to court to answer for their crimes.  The five hoped to move their trial to Utah but their request was denied.  They will stand or fall in Washington, D.C.

Matthew Alexander is back from Iraq and he's filled with regret:

President Obama must prosecute United States war crimes.

Amnesty International is reporting a new security agreement between the USA and Iraq would lead to the torture of over 16,000 detainees: