Month: April 2005

Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld: The names that “are synonymous with American power, conservatism and the projection of military might,” now have a “somewhat less formidable connotation.” Agathidium bushi,...

“Senate Republican leaders,” reports Alexander Bolton for The Hill, “were due to meet [Wed. night] amid rising concern that they are being beaten on the ‘nuclear option’ by Sen. Harry Reid’s...

A Tennessee state senator sponsoring a constitutional amendment aimed at “solemnizing the relationship of one man and one woman” and forbidding same-sex marriage is accused in a divorce case of cheating on his wife,...

(Also posted on Daily Kos) Going over recent coverage of anti-U.S. demonstrations in Baghdad’s Firdos Square last week makes interesting reading.  Most of the U.S. media took pains to point out that Firdos Square was...

The House judiciary committee yesterday approved legislation — The Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act — “that would criminalize helping teens circumvent state parental notification laws when obtaining...