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Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki addresses Congress today. Send us more of your soldiers to die and be maimed for Iraq! Send us more of your tax...

I've been reminded of this old story quite a bit recently. True 'dat.

If you're like me, you've been looking for the email that crazy Dr. Nicholas Bartha wrote before he (allegedly) blew up his Manhatt...

Stephen Colbert gave the commencement address at Knox College yesterday. It's up in full on the College's website, and it's goo...

Glenn Reynolds , Disgusting. I'd like to add that if Iraq-war critics were to follow Reynold's logic, then he and his cohorts callin...

I heard David Brooks on PBS Newshour tonight say (in paraphrase) it was commendable that Bush stuck with his principles on immigration, rath...

Beginning tonight, BBC America is airing The Thick of It , a political satire -- and a satire about the workings of politics -- that hits th...

President Bush : "'Deadlines are important,' he said. 'Deadlines help people understand there's finality, and people ne...

Atrios came up with a list of policies that most Democratic bloggers could support. Uggabugga does some analysis on it from the (likely) p...

There's one thing the Goss resignation confirms For one of the most important jobs in what he calls the "War on Terror," Bush ...

Josh Marshall complains about CNN not mentioning important information regarding Porter Goss' resignation. MSNBC, after interviewing sev...

USNews.com tells us that " Colbert crossed the line, " said one top Bush aide, who rushed out of the hotel as soon as Colbert fini...

A few more miscellaneous things about the Colbert act. 1) Someone put the C-Span video on MyTube.com, in three parts. It's gone viral, a...

I've read quite a bit of commentary on Stephen Colbert's act before the White House Correspondent's Dinner. I'm not surpris...

Juan Cole of Informed Comment has set up a foundation that will translate books important to American thought and history into Arabic. It...

Before we move onto what should be done about it, let's take a moment just to reflect. Iran says it joins 'countries with nuclear te...

On a BBC World report from Sudan just a minute ago, I heard the reporter describe the horrible poverty in a village. Later, when the report...

BBC7 is airing Flight of the Conchords , a screamingly funny rendering of the London exploits of one of New Zealand's two or three best ...

Cheney speaks! Interview Dick Cheney, NBC, "Meet the Press," Transcript for March 16, 2003 : "MR. RUSSERT: If your analysis i...

I don't know Swedish laws or mores, but just from what's in this Reuters dispatch , I'm glad this woman lost her job: Swedish F...