Month: July 2005

(Cross-posted at dKos) I have been following Traitorgate as avidly as anybody.  Yesterday, while all the hoopla in the news was about the speculation about Bush’s SCOTUS pick, I was reading the Feb 2005 Fed Appeals...

“[T]he Republican Party will make immigrants scapegoats in the 2006 election,” Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean predicted Tuesday in Philadelphia. In a speech to an influential Hispanic...

Turn on CSPAN2. The hearing is on now (7:55 AM PT). William Safire is testifying.

image: An Iraqi woman, who is unable to read, tries to understand the names printed on sheets as she searches for her son on lists of the dead and injured pasted on the outer wall of a hospital in Mussayib, Iraq, about 70...

PHOTO: “A child suffering from severe malnutrition is treated at the Médecins Sans Frontieres centre in Maradi, Niger.” (The Guardian). “”We are having now an acute humanitarian crisis in Niger in which...