I know the rest of the blogosphere already is recommending Huffington's Toast, but I want to add my kudos anyway. Whomever is writing these parodies is very talented ...
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This Claudia Rosett article on NRO begins... When Senator Norm Coleman (R-MN) last year compared the United Nations Oil-for-Food scandal to "an onion," he had just one thing wrong: The more you peel, the bigger it gets. It has more ...
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Black activists from the Project 21 leadership network applaud President George W. Bush's calls to reform Social Security by allowing people to directly control a portion of their payroll taxes and be able to transfer these funds to others upon ...
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...to how we judge Russia. In this op-ed in USA Today, Leon Aron puts the Putin presidency, pluses and minuses, in perspective. Aron's conclusion: The 2008 presidential election in Russia will be key: "Any underhanded efforts to secure the outcome ...
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My niece's husband is serving his second tour of duty with the U.S. Army (3rd ACR) in Iraq. I thought I'd share with blog readers an e-mail she sent to her Congressman, Rep. Joel Hefley, on Thursday about a little ...
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From the Boston Globe: Reuters - Baltic nations urged Moscow on Friday to apologize for five decades of Soviet occupation, hours before the arrival of President Bush on a trip to fete new democracies and the 1945 victory over the ...
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The Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call compiled a panel of Congressional scholars and asked them to name the ten most significant bills approved by Congress over the last fifty years. The newspaper says the scholars, who included Joel Aberbach of ...
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From today's Washington Post: As troops march past and planes streak overhead, President Bush will assume his place in the reviewing stand on Red Square in front of Lenin's tomb, marking the 60th anniversary of the Soviet victory (emphasis added) ...
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UPI's Peter Roff is reporting that the Bush Administration isn't taking a certain type of labor union intimidation lying down: The AFL-CIO has been at the forefront of the effort to derail President George W. Bush's plan to add personal ...
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A proposal offered by Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) to preserve robust debate over judicial nominees is being praised by members of the Project 21 black leadership network. Over the past two years, procedural delays have prevented judicial nominees ...
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