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One of the points I was trying to make in this post last night was that the Newsweek story really might not be playing out the way the how...

"Stand back, Priscilla -- you're a fine judge, but I'm running for President and I want to be in a two-shot with the black one....

Before you tear any more hair out about the Newsweek brouhaha, read this (seemingly centrist) UPI article by Pentagon correspondent Pamel...

Kuwait's Parliament granted full political rights to women on Monday, making way for them to vote and run for office in parliamentary a...

This is from Bill Gertz's "Backgrounder" at Geostrategy-Direct.com: Growing strategic ties between Iran and Venezuela concern...

As I watch religious-conservative outrage in other countries in response to reports of Koran desecration, then watch our own morally upright...

The Guardian minces no words: US 'backed illegal Iraqi oil deals' ...A report released last night by Democratic staff on a Senate ...

By the way, is it really possible to imagine that in the near future Iraq will settle down to a stable state of contented pluralism -- given...

Well, they're bedfellows, though I can't say for certain whether it's particularly strange. The Boston Globe reports: A com...

In an article in today's New York Times, Chan Chandler, the pastor who denounced Kerry voters from the pulpit at East Waynesville Bapt...

Well, Newsweek 's trying, but this CNN story suggests that nobody's buying: Muslims in Afghanistan and Pakistan were skeptical af...

Projected employment impact in the eleven states of the Confederacy as a result of the Bush adminsitration's military base realignment l...

Katha Pollitt in The Nation on Religious Right opposition to mass vaccination of young girls against the human papilloma virus -- which cou...

U.S. 2, GILEAD 0 ...Dr. W. David Hager, appointed to the FDA's Reproductive Health Drugs Advisory Committee after ardent opposition fr...

OK, kids: Do you know how many female judicial appointees have been confirmed in the Bush years? 41. African-Americans? 15. (That's o...

Holy crap. (And I mean that more or less literally.) (Link via Mixter's Mix.)

Though some Democrats were concerned about the image of their wealthy candidate frolicking among the fabulously wealthy here on an island w...

See Joe. See Joe get kissed by Dubya. See Joe help Dubya with Senate votes. Vote, Joe, vote! See Dubya stab Joe in the back. The Pentagon d...

I see that David Corn noticed what I noticed while listening to NPR this morning -- that Tom DeLay's little shindig last night featured ...

The anti-desecration unrest in Afghanistan and Pakistan is now spreading to the Palestinian territories. Oh, goody. Sure glad we decided...