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Gen. Petraeus' idea of "enormous" is different than mine. Cdr. Huber : As the Senate sent legislation to the White House that...

For rock fans: Everything you need to follow along with this weekend's Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.

Don Davis : He won't endorse "artificial deadlines" to pull-out from an artificial country, terrorized by artificial Iraqi pol...

The Satirical Political Report "Between my young hot wife, and that old hot-head Gravel, I'm suddenly starting to look pretty good ...

MoDo on 'Slam-Dunk' Tenet: The president and vice president wanted Slam-Dunk to help them dramatize the phony case. Everyone had to...

Is there a Republican who isn't a hypocrite or a crook ?

She stayed so long. River of Baghdad Burning is leaving for safer locales . Glen says goodbye : Since I chanced upon her years ago, I hav...

The next chapter of my novel The Fourth Estate is up at The Practical Press . And don't forget, you can vote in The Practical Press Awa...

Deja vu : ... America's generals have repeated the mistakes of Vietnam in Iraq.... America's generals did not provide Congress and t...

A tip o' the Brain to Grist .

AlterNet The piece begins with: U.S. politics took a sharp turn to the right in 1980 with the election of Ronald Reagan as president. And go...

On Wednesday I posted about David Halberstam . Please go see what a pro has to say about him in Newsweek . As it was in the beginning, so it...

So sue me. I like the guy. Truthout Veteran journalist Bill Moyers begins his new weekly series, "Bill Moyers Journal," with an i...

I had that thing on while I did other things. Nothing Earth-shattering happened, although Joe Biden got off a good one: when asked if he tho...

Mr. Shakes got his green card ! ... He’s "tootally gooing to becoome a citizen in time to voote in 2008!" ... Go wish them well. S...

On Monday, voting will close for The Practical Press Awards 2006 . While I'm up for an award, I direct you there to experience the weal...

That would be Steve Soto. You don't see a right wing blogger, nor many 'legitimate' news sources, point out their own mistakes....

About who is gonna be running the show in 50 years? Click to embiggen Cartogram from an excellent site I found a while back called Strange ...

They're only brown people .

The Carpetbagger Report on Rove's violations of the Hatch Act: Rove & Co. never explicitly instructed federal employees to take spe...