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I've said it before but it's pertinent again. A major American city evacuated and unihabitable for over a month ? Thousands possibl...

Dulce Et Decorum Est Pro Shi'ite Theocracy .

Josh Marshall finds Kaus making an interesting assertion. So, is that book on the table Who's Who? I don't know. This is the best i...

I always wondered why Atrios and others called Chris Matthews "Tweety" .

I see that Bush is planning on nominating someone to the Supreme Court more quickly than he intended. This is probably due, in part, to th...

If you've wondered what a rank-and-file CIA person thinks of the Plame affair, you should stop in at TPMCafe.com, where ex-CIA agent Lar...

Uggabugga has a decent bumper sticker idea. But an anonymous commenter there has an even better one: "Who do I have to blow to ge...

One major thing wrong with the Iraq debacle was the utter incompetence of the Bush Administration, as evidenced by the nutcases they sent ov...

President Urges Patience on War : "Why must we take this painful road? Why must this nation hazard its ease, its interest, and its powe...

So the rightwingers believe that Amnesty International is biased against the US. The Poor Man finds that others have made very similar comp...

Tonight BBC America begins to air I'm Alan Partridge , a hilarious sitcom featuring Steve Coogan 's most famous creation, the failed...

H. Allen Orr in the New Yorker writes a good piece on Intelligent Design , including this bit: In 1999, a document from the Discovery Instit...

You may recall that at the Air Force Academy, evangelical students and instructors are apparently harassing non-evangelicals. The Air Forc...

Ken Layne on the Newsweek non-scandal: "Beautiful: The White House just announced the total retraction was a “good first step.” Ah, an...

Actually, it's no contest. From Editor & Publisher Gallup: Bush Approval Rating Lowest Ever for 2nd-Term Prez at this Point : ...

A New York Times article about the upcoming nuclear showdown in the Senate includes the following paragraph, with the creepy Santorum quote ...

I was under the impression that the Theresa Schiavo autopsy would be completed by early May. This interesting profile of the pathologist per...

Pleasure marriages' regain popularity in Iraq One thing freedom has re-introduced to Iraq: "Pleasure marriages," which ca...

Here's a PDF file of an unusual employment discrimination case in Michigan. Quoting: One day, plaintiff [Michelle Howard, a Child Prot...

The film version of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy [HGTTG] opens today in the US. I like HGTTG, but I'm not a fanatic (I haven...