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Afghanistan is being run just like Iraq *: The most senior British military commander in Afghanistan today described the situation in the co...

This is the beginning of the end ...

From commenter Susan on this post at Kevin Drum's: Shorter Dershowitz: for all rules, Israel is always the exception. for most of the ...

I advanced the suggestion over a year and a half ago ( here and here ). Today, Michael Stickings says they're actually considering it...

Before I give you a painful illustration link,I'd like to address something.I am no scholar,and heaven knows that there's half a tri...

Now that things have completely gone to shit for the Repubs, they're beginning to embrace reality. The so-called moderates are starting...

If you want to get out of a war zone you need money and status. From our pal Scout Prime : ... Among those enrolled in the summer Arabic pr...

I've been meaning to write about the Chimp's stem cell bill veto and his exploitation of the 'snowflake babies' (Why does ...

By William Rivers Pitt I cannot believe how incredibly stupid you are. I mean rock-hard stupid. Dehydrated-rock-hard stupid. Stupid so stupi...

Watertiger : ... You know, what the world needs now is not love, sweet love, but a motherfucking tribunal removing this goddamned sociopathi...

Cursor [Although U.S. military spokesman Maj. Gen. William Caldwell warns that insurgents are streaming in for "an all-out assault aga...

LATimes Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Thursday ordered a loan of up to $150 million to the state's voter-approved stem cell research ins...

David Sirota on the possible democratic implications of the Lamont/Lieberman race. That's what's really got the pundits, the politi...

Will Durst comments on the Chimp's embarrassing performance at the G-8: Bush, as bored with the whole concept of diplomacy as a five ye...

I didn't hear this on the news. I wonder why? Jul 20, 2006 - SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A federal judge declined motions on Thursday to...

How come the Voting Rights Act isn't a permanent law of the land? Why must the Congress re-ratify it every so often? Shouldn't i...

*With preamble, by Froggy : ... So another opportunity came and went and the worst president in the history of the United States continues t...

It's just not enough for the citizens of Rightwingnuttia that they have pretty cushy lives,oh no. I don't know what it is about thes...

Why the Katrina-like response to rescuing our people from Lebanon? Blah3 via Maru : A reliable source tells me that the reason the United ...

Sort of in the same vein as my previous post, but from an unexpected source. I am now pointing a revolver at my finger to get it to link to...