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Pentagon Is Probing Veterans Home By Steve Vogel and Michael E. Ruane Washington Post Staff Writers Thursday, March 22, 2007; Page A01 Repor...

The Times They Are A Changin' - Bob Dylan, 1964 Come senators, congressmen Please heed the call Don't stand in the doorway Don't...

Our pal Montag : ... Remember, to a "loyal Bushie" black is white and up is down. If they say they are innocent, it is time to bui...

The first couple chapters of The Fourth Estate are up at The Practical Press . If you missed my previous novel The Captains , you can check...

Leahy on Olbermann's show : ... "The reason I want to do it under oath..remember in the Valerie Plame thing, nobody had anything to...

Cdr. Huber on the funding bill passed by the House today: ... As to the criticism that the House bill passed because it threw pork to U.S. ...

This is rare enough that I felt it merited a post. I was watching Lardass this afternoon, and Chris Matthews was talking to some idiot Reth...

WaPo prints an anonymous editorial by a recipient of a possibly illegal yet somehow binding FBI Security Letter. It is the policy of The Wa...

James C. Moore , co-author of "Bush's Brain: How Karl Rove Made George W. Bush Presidential" , is an expert on that slimeball ...

Mother Jones They cheered the U.S. invasion; they offered to help, signed on as translators, risked everything they had to work for the Unit...

A quote from my post of 27 October '04: Not only have we not heard the last of this, I think we have barely heard the beginning. Every ...

Yahoo! News Ignoring a White House veto threat, lawmakers voted 218-212, mostly along party lines, for a binding war spending bill requiring...

[ Welcome to all of Shakes' readers stopping by. ~ F. ] People are starting to get it* . WASHINGTON -- Public allegiance to the Republi...

Sen. Pat Leahy (D-Big Brass Balls): "What we're told we can get is nothing ... Nothing ... Nothing," complained Senate Judici...

Got this by e-mail from Mrs. G: A drunk man who smelled like beer sat down on a subway next to a priest. The man's tie was stained, his...

Only they would put the lives of beloved family pets second to profits . I'm sure most folks' pets nowadays are like our Princess S...

When you look at how your taxes are spent by the federal government, not in dry accountant-speak or eye-glazing spreadsheets, but for guys l...

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When your coworkers know where you blog .

Think Progress Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) has said Al Gore is "full of crap" and compared people who believe in global warming to ...