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Via Atrios : WASHINGTON - Several states ready and willing to send National Guard troops to the rescue in hurricane-ravaged New Orleans did...

Stolen from my friend the CultureGhost : [I had stolen the graphic, but somehow it was playing Hell with my template. Click on the link to ...

Jill has questions : Where the hell is Cheney, anyway? Is he alive? Dead? Hooked up to tubes in a persistent vegetative state? It seems odd ...

Consortium News via Farnsworth : [. . .] In the 1980s, when I was covering the wars in Central America, neoconservative theorists liked to ...

Don't piss off the spooks. Via Cookie Christine : Former CIA director George Tenet, said to be the target of what the Washington Times...

Via Pam : WASHINGTON , Sept. 1 (HalliburtonWatch.org) -- The US Navy asked Halliburton to repair naval facilities damaged by Hurricane Katri...

This one was so good, I've posted it in two places. My apologies to the source - I can't remember where I found it.

Go read John Howard . Go see Pauly too.

I'm holding a gun on my finger to get it to type this: Go read Pat Buchanan . What he says makes sense, but he says it like it's a b...

There is just soooo much today on the twin disasters in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, both the human tragedy and its exacerbation by our ...

South Knox Bubba may be using his real name these days, but his powers are undiminished. He's still on the case. Via Are You Effin'...

Today is the 60th anniversary of the formal end of the Second World War. Philippe Pons brings up some analogies for today. Asia's hist...

Michael Moore There will be those who will try to politicize this tragedy and try to use it against you. Just have your people keep pointing...

Paul Krugman I don't think this is a simple tale of incompetence. The reason the military wasn't rushed in to help along the Gulf Co...

Wolcott : [. . .] "[T]his is not a time for politics -- not only for moral and ethical reasons, but for political ones as well. That is...

From our friend and esteemed colleague, the CutureGhost : Dear President Bush; Your services are no longer needed. Please submit your resign...

Princess Shayna says she'll shoot death rays from her eyes at George Bush for his ineptitude and criminal acts. "He shouldn't b...

I've been permanently pissed off at Bush since 2000, but this time I'm ashamed of the sonofabitch. Ashamed that he calls himself an ...