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Number of times Camille Paglia refers to herself in the first person ("I," "I'm," "I've," "me,...

Hey, Joe Klein, this is just silly: I suspect that Obama's aim is to rebuild the bonfire of Howard Dean's grass-roots campaign, min...

Oh, and Doghouse Riley on George W. and Anna Nicole is the funniest thing I've read all week.

Priorities: Due to federal budget constraints some 3000 patients could possibly be prevented from taking part in cancer trials nationwide, ...

SLICK MOVE From today's New York Post : Rudy Giuliani, a prostate-cancer survivor who fought the disease seven years ago, will have a ...

PANDER BEAR McCAIN John McCain, not content to limit this month's shameless pandering to the far right to a speech before the pro-intel...

BECAUSE, I GUESS, BUYING A WHOLE BUNCH OF SCARLET A'S WOULD BE A BUDGET-BUSTER FOR THE STATE From AP: Legislation introduced in Tenn...

SEPARATED AT BIRTH? Surely I can't be the first person to notice this resemblance: **** (Those among you who are unfamiliar with the im...

REALLY UPSET ABOUT THAT DRAG THING, AREN'T THEY? Rudy Giuliani is the leading '08 GOP candidate -- in Alabama.

OOPS -- NEVER MIND Dinesh D'Souza's book just slithered onto the New York Times bestseller list, at #15. Hmmm ... #19 to completely...

I might buy the theory advanced today by Harold Meyerson in The Washington Post -- that Hillary Clinton, by being the most lukewarm oppone...

I'm a fan of Shakes, I've said things that gave religious conservatives the vapors, so, yes, Driftglass and others: I'm Spart...

You know who should be taking Giuliani down a peg? Maureen Dowd. Isn't that her market niche -- that she's the equal-opportunity v...

IF WE LEAVE IRAQ, THE TERRORISTS WILL FOLLOW THE TROOPS HOME That's what war supporters say, but I think Quiddity has the perfect solut...

According to the latest Gallup poll, Rudy Giuliani has a 16-point lead over John McCain among Republicans and Republican leaners. Accordin...

CONSERVATIVE SCHOLARSHIP Here's Dinesh D'Souza, the noted conservative scholar, in a recent speech: Ultimately it's up to peopl...

This story with a happy ending is old news -- it's from December -- but I just found it in Church and State, the newsletter of Americ...

BUSH ON THE COUCH Odd statement from Bush in a (rather fawning) C-SPAN interview conducted yesterday: THE PRESIDENT: ...The Iranian peopl...

Added to the blogroll, in many cases belatedly: Spencer Ackerman (Too Hot for TNR), Blue Gal , Blue Wren , Glenn Greenwald at Salon, Insta...

WHY DOES THE EXECUTIVE PRODUCER OF 24 HATE AMERICA? Good article in The New Yorker by Jane Mayer about torture on 24. The article focus...