Month: October 2007

I’ll ask you to do this once, and then I advise that you never do it again. Go look at Mark Halperin’s new political roundup blog, The Page. By my count he has only one link to a political story about policy. That...

Today is Blog Action Day for the environment.  Gracias to Smartypants for the heads up and her contribution to this blogswarm that centers on an area of Peru that is polluted from a nearby copper smelter. For my part, I...

Australian Prime Minister John Howard has called elections for late November. A formidable politician who has destroyed his opposition in four consecutive elections, Howard, 68, and his governing coalition face an uphill battle...

Congress looks like it might have to stay in session well into December, something the Do-Nothing Republican Congress that preceded it never would have done. The ongoing rift between the President and the Congress over the...

Thomas Ricks and Karen DeYoung report that we are, as Bush claimed on his trip to Australia, kicking ass in Iraq. Specifically, we are kicking the ass of some organization known as Al-Qaeda in Iraq, or AQI. You’ll never...