Ah, Jesus. Death squads in Iraq as the solution? There’s not enough room in hell for these people.

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Drinking Liberally tonight at Tangier, 18th & Lombard, 6 - 9 p.m. Tonight is, among other things, a going-away party for my dear friend Somegirl. (sniff)

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Inquiring minds want to know.

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Much ado about nothing. After all, Jesus told them to:
Washington, DC – Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) today filed an Internal Revenue Services (IRS) complaint against Focus on the Family, a conservative, non-profit organization led by its Founder and Chairman James C. Dobson. The complaint asks for the IRS to investigate activities […]

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Life in this country is looking more and more like “Minority Report,” the science fiction movie where people are arrested before they commit crimes:
WASHINGTON - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice defended the unlimited detention of suspected terrorists saying, in an interview published on Tuesday, that it benefitted the United States and the entire world.
“You […]

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Krugman:
American workers at big companies used to think they had made a deal. They would be loyal to their employers, and the companies in turn would be loyal to them, guaranteeing job security, health care and a dignified retirement.
Such deals were, in a real sense, the basis of America’s postwar social order. We like to […]

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Yes, but it’s more humane torture this time:
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraqi authorities have been torturing and abusing prisoners in jails across the country, current and former Iraqi officials charged.
Deputy Human Rights Minister Aida Ussayran and Gen. Muntadhar Muhi al-Samaraee, a former head of special forces at the Ministry of the Interior, made the allegations […]

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Jerilyn thinks Rove is about to make a deal:
I have opined many times that Rove will take a deal if he can get Fitzgerald to limit the charge to making a false statement to investigators and to agree to recommend a sentence reduction to a probationary or home detention range. [More on that here.] I […]

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A friend of mine put this together to collect school supplies for kids in Iraq. If you can help (or even better, get a group to help), click here for info. Thanks.

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(Posted at the now-defunct Open Source Politics, 9/30/03. Finalist, Best Post, 2003 Koufax Awards.)
When you’ve heard lie upon lie/ There can hardly be a question of why.
– Billy Joel
The first thing you need to do is, stop trying to be fair. I mean it. Just cut it out, before I have to come over there […]

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Sibel Edmonds’ case denied by the Supreme Court.

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Raw Story:
Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald will present evidence to a second grand jury this week in his two year-old investigation into the outing of covert CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson that could lead to a criminal indictment being handed up against Karl Rove, President Bush’s deputy chief of staff, attorneys close to the investigation say. […]

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They can’t find anyone stupid and/or unprincipled enough to work for them.

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Another “honorable” Republican bites the dust:
SAN DIEGO – Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham pleaded guilty Monday morning to conspiring to take bribes in exchange for using his influence to help a defense contractor get business.
He also pleaded guilty to one count of income tax evasion.

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Raw Story:
Testimony by Rove’s assistant may help case for indictment, lawyers say: Soon…

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Sy Hersh on the plan to shift the war in Iraq to the air. (Hint: No one sane thinks it’s such a good idea.) Plus, Bush seems to have a problem with hearing anything he doesn’t want to hear:
Bush’s closest advisers have long been aware of the religious nature of his policy commitments. In recent […]

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Growing student debt, fast-shrinking student aid and few well-paying jobs upon graduation - why are we urging kids to go to college?

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No one seems to have a clue about what this means but I’ll keep you updated if I see anything:
WASHINGTON, Nov. 27 - A second reporter for Time magazine has been asked to testify under oath in the C.I.A. leak case, about conversations she had in 2004 with a lawyer for Karl Rove, the senior […]

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Pharmaceutical firms are hiring cheerleaders as sales reps. Why does this not surprise me?
But many cheerleaders, and their proponents, say they bring attributes besides good looks to the job - so much so that their success has led to a recruiting pipeline that fuels the country’s pharmaceutical sales force. T. Lynn Williamson, Ms. Napier’s cheering […]

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TBogg:
Apparently there is a movement afoot in America to round up all the Christians and nail them to crosses and then feed them to lions and then burn their bones in bonfires made of confiscated Bibles… and I never got the memo.

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Sounds like Frank Rich has been watching Dr. Phil:
The more we learn about the road to Iraq, the more we realize that it’s a losing game to ask what lies the White House told along the way. A simpler question might be: What was not a lie? The situation recalls Mary McCarthy’s explanation to Dick […]

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The thing that’s really difficult about a four-day weekend is that by the time you really get into the swing of things, it’s time to go back to work.
Just sayin.’

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You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one:
A card-carrying member of the Washington GOP establishment with close ties to the White House recently encountered several senior presidential aides at a dinner and came away shaking his head at their “no problems here” mentality.
“There is just no introspection there at all,” he […]

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Unfortunately, this is the logical progression of what’s been going on - there’s a loony in the White House. If anything, sounds like Sy Hersh is understating the problem.

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Well, we saw this one coming. Via Kevin:
So how are things going in Iraq? First up, let’s hear from Ayad Allawi, formerly prime minister in the interim government:
In a damning and wide-ranging indictment of Iraq’s escalating human rights catastrophe, Allawi accused fellow Shias in the government of being responsible for death squads and secret torture […]

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