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From Attackerman : “America has three-quarters of a billion dollars to spend on the embassy in Baghdad, but our troops have to live like thi...

Crooks and Liars [...] But there is little doubt the Democratic nominee will have to defeat both McCain and the media in the fall. We’re ...

Mark Morford on White House/Pentagon retired military shills/liars: Fun new game! Which TV news "military expert" is really a who...

Here's a little song that I hope will make you smile. There's a version with a slide show set to the actual recording of the song t...

For John McCain. Dday lays out every gaffe, every waffle, every flip-flop; a masterful job : ... The week started with a front-page story a...

Another chapter of Thirty Days at Zeta is up at The Practical Press . At our travel blog, I introduce you to the person who gets us on all...

Dashiell : ... So don’t talk to me about the left. There is no left. It was killed when the labor unions bought into the war machine and bec...

I was reading about an unlucky gent whose last earthly vision was of something a little higher up the food chain than he was, in the waters...

Wired Smoking weed can improve your performance in all sorts of activities -- from playing reggae music to watching Battlestar Galactica to...

Sorry 'bout that... 7 News Denver Talk show host Rush Limbaugh is sparking controversy again after he made comments calling for riots in...

Letterman 10. Fewer embarrassing gaffes, more humiliating blunders 0. Replace "Hail To The Chief" with Black Sabbath's ...

WaPo A letter that President Bush personally delivered to then-Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon four years ago has emerged as a significa...

That was a tease, as much as I'd like Feith, among others, to be 'terminated'. The Jesuits haven't done things like that, at...

Vuze The Issue ISPs have been restricting the free flow of P2P Internet traffic through their networks for years. In some cases, ISPs have p...

Mr. Petulant on the Justice Antonin 'Fat Tony' Scalia 60 Minutes interview this weekend: Sure, We'll Get Over It When Conserva...

Why does McCain want to be President so badly? Digby : ... Yes. Even I hadn't actually thought of it in quite that way. This guy is ol...

What were you doing when Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans? This .

Expanding a little on Fixer's post , from IPS : The nomination of Gen. David Petraeus to be the new head of the Central Command not only...

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BuzzFlash Today in Youngstown, a city hit hard by unfair trade agreements, economic downturns, and the mortgage crisis, John McCain actually...