As much as the administration likes to talk about the “free and democratic” Iraq, you see stories like this and really know how bogus that claim is: Iraq’s prime minister imposed a daytime driving ban in Baghdad and in the province where Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was killed by American bombs, fearing insurgents will seek to […]

I just read Tom Delay’s farewell speech and now feel all misty. Aww the poor hammer – that victim of “the criminalization of politics”. How could they do that to him. Ok back to reality. If you want to read his last attack on liberals as a member of Congress, you can do so here. […]

With the death of Zarqawi brings a new and interesting question – could we have helped out al Qaeda? To help you understand this line of thinking, let’s go back in the near past (h/t to Think Progress on this one): Jordanian-born al Qaeda militant Abu Musab Zarqawi has been replaced as head of the […]

This is a nice defeat for the GOP: Senators voted Thursday to reject a Republican effort to shrink taxes on inherited estates during this election year. GOP leaders had pushed senators to end the tax once and for all. It disappears in 2010, under President Bush’s first tax cut, but rears up again a year […]

This statement by Bush this morning regarding the death of al Zarqawi is kind of odd: President Bush said on Thursday the killing of al Qaeda’s leader in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, offers a chance to “turn the tide” in the war but he urged patience and predicted more violence to come. So his death […]

Now this is really interesting: The United States strongly criticized the No. 2 United Nations official on Wednesday for a speech he gave that accused the U.S. government of leaving Americans in the dark about the world body’s good works. U.S. Ambassador John Bolton called Tuesday’s speech by Deputy Secretary-General Mark Malloch Brown a “very, […]

The little whores that are the Republican leadership have bowed down yet again: Phone company executives won’t be grilled by a Senate panel anytime soon about their roles in the Bush administration’s eavesdropping program. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter, R-Pa., said Tuesday he will hold off subpoenaing the telecommunications chiefs while he works with […]

Vanity Fair has a new, long piece up looking into the Niger yellow cake claim that helped lead this country to invading Iraq and the outting of Valerie Plame: The Bush administration invaded Iraq claiming Saddam Hussein had tried to buy yellowcake uranium in Niger. As much of Washington knew, and the world soon learned, […]

Hopefully this will send a message to the Christian right that their support for the gay marriage ban is less than expected: The Senate on Wednesday rejected a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage, dealing an embarrassing defeat to President Bush and Republicans who hoped to use the measure to energize conservative voters on Election […]

80% of the active military could now be affected by the stolen VA information? This is getting huge: Social Security numbers and other personal information for as many as 2.2 million U.S. military personnel — including nearly 80 percent of the active-duty force — were among the data stolen from the home of a Department […]