Washington Post ~ By Lynne Duke

The Word at War

The Lynch story was among the stories cited in a 2003 analysis titled “Truth From These Podia,” by Sam Gardiner, a retired U.S. Air Force colonel and former instructor at the National War College. Gardiner studied the Iraq-war-related statements of U.S. and British officials […]

Donkey ODs ~ By Jenny

Buck Owens, Country Music Genius, Has Died

Buck Owens
Together Again
Written by - Buck Owens
Together again
My tears have stopped falling
The long lonely nights are now at an end
The key to my heart you hold in your hand
And […]

VOA News ~ By Mike O’Sullivan

Thousands Protest US Immigration Proposal

The bill is not yet law and many Hispanics, union leaders and church officials have spoken against it. The legislation would impose new penalties on employers who hire illegal immigrants and erect fences along one-third of the U.S.-Mexico border.

Police say […]

Huffington Post ~ By Digby

The Elite Media still don’t know they’re being played

Or is it just coincidence?…

I have never been much for blog triumphalism. Aside from being self-aggrandizing, it didn’t seem to me to be particularly ralistic that blogs would replace the mainstream media. But I am actually beginning to think […]

Washington Post ~ By DEB RIECHMAN

Bush Blasts Democrats on Economic Issues

Speaking at a fundraiser for GOP Rep. Mike Sodrel in what may be one of the closest races in the country, Bush attempted to draw a sharp contrast between the two parties’ economic policies.
“We’ve got a record to stand on,” Bush said.
But he […]

Earvolution ~ posted by JD

Nude Britney Spears Serves As Pro-Life Monument

Daniel Edwards
Monument to Pro-Life: The Birth of Sean Preston
Show Dates - April 7 through April 23, Brooklyn NY

“Monument to Pro-Life: The Birth of Sean Preston,” believed Pro-Life’s first monument to the “act of giving birth,” is purportedly an […]

Washington Post ~ By Charles Krauthammer

Of Course It’s a Civil War

A leading apologist for the neocons clarifies why we went into Iraq…
to start a Civil War:

Now all of a sudden everyone is shocked to find Iraqis going after Iraqis. But is it not our entire counterinsurgency strategy to get […]

Way back in early 2004, a time when the former Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein wasn’t quite considered an apt role model for the humane treatment of prisoners (at least by most experts), it was disclosed that his former prisons were in fact still being engaged for the use of torturing its inmates. What was […]

Des Moines Register ~ by Rekha Basu

Abortion law a wake-up call to safeguard rights

[S]he (the rape victim) has been the victim of one violent act. Should we now ask her to be a party to a second violent act — that of abortion? (I wonder who “we” is? […]

Baltimore Sun ~ People & Places

Sharon Stone says she’s willing to bare all

“It’s pretty easy for me to be naked,” the 48-year-old actress said yesterday in Berlin. “I’m a person who feels that if it’s appropriate for the character I’m playing or the mood of the piece, […]