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Tonight, ABC's evening news led with the story of the theft of nearly 150,000 people's personal information from a ChoicePoint Inc....

A number of bloggers are puzzling over this story, which appeared in a small newspaper in Washington State yesterday: Five federal governm...

Another scalp: Embattled PBS Chief Will Step Down in 2006 Pat Mitchell, the Public Broadcasting Service chief under fire for spending publ...

I don't recall being dragged out of my bed by jackbooted centurions from the Ministry of Art and forced to experience the tyranny that ...

Until I read this, from Americans United for Separation of Church and State, I hadn't really paid attention to the fact that Janice Rog...

I understand why people would get choked up at that Budweiser commercial with the troops receiving a round of applause at the airport -- hey...

More thoughtful art criticism from the right -- this time it's Andrea Peyser, in yesterday's New York Post : WAKE me when these hi...

Why did we reelect Bush? Oh, yeah -- because he was going to keep us safer: Budget cuts FDA safety checks The Food and Drug Administratio...

This assassination in Lebanon is actually working out very nicely for the Bush administration, The New York Times notes. The Bushies blam...

AFP reports: For the second time in as many months, a test of the Pentagon's missile defense system has ended in fiasco.... The Missile...

So the Kurds, who won 59% of the vote in oil-rich Kirkuk (even though they represent about a third of the population there, and even though ...

Yeah, yeah, yeah -- I said a couple of days ago that we on the left all had fun watching Jeff Gannon fall, and then we moved on. But that ...

Apart from his repulsive habit of publishing Charles ( Bell Curve ) Murray, can someone please explain to me why David Shipley regularly ...

Romance is in the air today across the land. But in Washington, the buzz continues about "The Kiss." No, not Gustav Klimt's f...

I was in Central Park today to see The Gates. It's charming; it created a near-giddiness in the crowd. I really want to see it again to...

HOW HIGH IS DOWN? CNN is reporting a 72% turnout. [Later: Some readers think that will turn out to be high, with the final number more lik...

In The New York Times, David Cay Johnston notes that we've already taken the first step down the slippery slope that leads to the end ...

Conservatives like to say that the left has its priorities treasonously skewed -- that we hate George W. Bush (or, say, John Ashcroft) more ...

Added to the blogroll, in some cases very belatedly, are AMERICAblog , Bill's Big Diamond Blog , Crooked Timber , Scoobie Davis , Hard A...

OH, WE'RE SORRY. WE FORGOT THAT WE'RE SUPPOSED TO FOLLOW THE MARQUIS OF QUEENSBURY RULES WHILE YOU GET TO KICK US IN THE NUTS Con...