It’s the IKEA factor:
Teenagers in Los Angeles and New York City face a substantial — and strikingly similar — cancer risk from breathing the air, largely because of toxic chemicals inside their homes and schools, a new scientific study shows.
For the research, 87 high school students, including 41 from Jefferson High School in South Los [...]

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You mean people still read the “even-the-liberal-New-Republic“?
They offered it to me for free, and I still won’t read it. Piece of high-fallutin’ crap.

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I’m afraid to see what SCOTUS comes up with this time:
WASHINGTON — Republican Texas lawmakers didn’t like the electoral map that a federal court adopted after the 2000 census, so they redrew it — and gained six seats in the state’s delegation to the U.S. House of Representatives.
As early as today, the U.S. Supreme Court [...]

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Come on, kids, :do your civic duty:
It’s time to hit the phones, everyone. I am told that the Senate Commerce Committee will be doing bill mark-up today, and that the net neutrality vote will be pushed off until probably Tuesday.
And that we are one vote short at the moment for killing the bill in [...]

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Rep. Louise Slaughter today:
The House Republican leadership scurried up to the Rules Committee hearing room for an EMERGENCY meeting they convened with 5 minutes notice. Literally.
Wonder where the fire was? Well the topic Republicans chose for EMERGENCY consideration … H.R. 5638, the Republican Estate Tax Relief bill, designed to further reduce [...]

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Today’s depressing news:
June 22,2006 | BAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraqi police stormed a farm north of Baghdad early Thursday and freed at least 17 people who were snatched a day earlier in a mass kidnapping of about 85 workers and family members at the end of a factory shift.
The U.S. military, meanwhile, reported that four Marines [...]

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Go save Mike Luckovich, who’s getting slammed for his editorial cartoon in the Atlanta Constitution.

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I suppose by the end of the year, it’ll be 50 and all the wingnut bloggers can sign up for this worthy cause:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Army, aiming to make its recruiting goals amid the Iraq war, raised its maximum enlistment age by another two years on Wednesday, while the Army Reserve predicted it [...]

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City Council has passed the bill, but Mayor Street has to sign it in order for it to become law. Click here to sign a petition that will go to the mayor.
You don’t have to live in the city; the metro area is okay. After all, a lot of people who spend money in [...]

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I’m driving to work this morning, listening to WOGL-FM, the oldies station, when the news comes on: “Senator Rick Santorum has announced the finding of WMDs in Iraq.” So I wait; no clarifying information. No “The Department of Defense has denied it.”
So when I get into work, I call and ask to speak to the [...]

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No more middle class:
INDIANAPOLIS — Middle-class neighborhoods, long regarded as incubators for the American dream, are losing ground in cities across the country, shrinking at more than twice the rate of the middle class itself.
In their place, poor and rich neighborhoods are both on the rise, as cities and suburbs have become increasingly segregated by [...]

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Will Bunch:
So let’s get this straight: Over in the Pentagon, they are now busy managing troops that are now overtaxed not just by the endless insurgency in Iraq but also by a ” reinvorated” Taliban in Afghanistan and a missile threat from North Korea; planning operations like the recent search for two kidnapped and ultimately [...]

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Those poor people:
ATLANTA, June 21 — In yet another change of housing plans for Hurricane Katrina evacuees, the Federal Emergency Management Agency has suspended the eviction of 3,000 families who are living in government trailers in Mississippi.
The move is the latest in a series of announcements and reversals that have caused confusion and occasionally panic [...]

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They just make shit up, and no one ever calls them on it.
UPDATE: The Defense Department says no.

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When you have nothing to hide, you hide nothing:
TALLAHASSEE — Gov. Jeb Bush on Tuesday vetoed a public records bill that was crafted in response to questions surrounding his office’s handling of public records.
In November, his office on four occasions denied the existence of a proposal to restructure a school voucher program. One of Bush’s [...]

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I’m leaving for L.A. Friday. This couldn’t wait a week?

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Joan Blades, one of the Moveon.org founders, explains why net neutrality is so important. This is happening Friday, so call your senators:
You know, it’s incredibly close. [Net Neutrality] is not on many people’s radars. This issue is so much deeper than most people are going to go. It’s one of those things where it was [...]

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Another whiny ass titty baby.

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Here’s what I want people to do. When someone tells you he or she is a Republican, look them straight in the eye, ask “Why?” and then wait. Don’t say a word.
Because I don’t know about you, but this kind of Big Brother horse hockey shouldn’t fly in a real democracy:
AT&T has issued an updated [...]

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Who’d a thunk it, that Iraq would have a civil war? Who’d a think it, that the contractors would steal all the money without fixing things? Who’d a thunk it, that the country would descend into ethnic cleansing?
Uh, anyone with half a brain. So that leaves out BushCo:
Overconfident people are more likely to wage war [...]

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It gets worse in Iraq:
Gunmen have abducted at least 80 Iraqi factory workers from a fleet of buses just north of Baghdad, officials say.
The abduction took place at a state-owned factory complex at Taji where dozens of insurgents commandeered buses taking employees home after work.
A source quoted by Reuters news agency said the number of [...]

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I really, truly despise ABC’s The Note and stopped reading it a long time ago. This Washington Monthly piece by Eric “Lapdogs” Boehlert reminds me why:
Part of the explanation is specific to The Note: it’s young, and, more than most media outlets, it’s a product of the Bush era. Starting off as a purely internal [...]

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Josh Marshall:
We’ve been talking a lot over the last two days over where the public is on Iraq and how the Democrats should be approaching the issue as they make their case to voters in the lead up to the election.
As we noted yesterday, Republicans are trying to cow Democrats by making a play [...]

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Miss Molly:
It seems to me there is a direct connection between the Republicans’ inability to run anything governmental (”Heckuva job, Brownie”) and the fact that they don’t believe in government. The simplest purposes of government have long been defined for us — to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for [...]

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They’ll be watching you:
In interviews with Salon, the former AT&T workers said that only government officials or AT&T employees with top-secret security clearance are admitted to the room, located inside AT&T’s facility in Bridgeton. The room’s tight security includes a biometric “mantrap” or highly sophisticated double door, secured with retinal and fingerprint scanners. The former [...]

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Another quote from the new Suskind book:
The book’s opening anecdote tells of an unnamed CIA briefer who flew to Bush’s Texas ranch during the scary summer of 2001, amid a flurry of reports of a pending al-Qaeda attack, to call the president’s attention personally to the now-famous Aug. 6, 2001, memo titled “Bin Ladin Determined [...]

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We have twisted, turned, contorted and outright ignored the Geneva Convention in Iraq and Afghanistan. Military leaders warned us that flouting the rules would put our soldiers at incredible risk, and we’re seeing the horrible fruits of that now.
It’s a little thing called “cause and effect,” and the NY Daily News would prefer not to [...]

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From Sportsbook.com, the online betting parlor and casino:
Despite his claims to the contrary, many Washington insiders are anticipating a Gore-Clinton showdown for the Democratic nomination. Odds on Gore winning the 2008 election have jumped markedly from 70-1, when betting opened a year ago, to 20 -1 currently. This significant shift reflects the sizeable increase in [...]

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So I’m sitting outside tonight at Drinking Liberally when my friend Lionel walks past with his new guitar, which he proceeds to show me. We start talking guitars, and he tells me his wife told him if he brought home a new one, he had to get rid of one of the others. “Which one?” [...]

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Why liberals fear global warming. No, really.

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