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As you surely know by now, the House GOP leadership scheduled a vote on a resolution calling for the immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq. They wanted the resolution to fail, of course, but also to get all of the Democratic congressmen on record calling for a withdrawal. It backfired. The [...]

Talk on the web today is mostly about John Murtha, the Vietnam vet and Democratic Congressman who made a heartfelt case for withdrawal. The White House accused him of “endorsing the policy positions of Michael Moore and the extreme liberal wing of the Democratic party.”
Ok, let’s leave aside for a moment that President Bush, the [...]

News from Iran is bleak today, what with word that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad apparently is “purging” opponents from government, but reading Laura Secor’s New Yorker piece (she is interviewed about it in this New Yorker teaser) makes you wonder how long it will take for Ahmadinejad to blow his wad, er, how long his tenure [...]

Drudge news flash on Sens. Harkin and Specter’s failed attempt to get two buildings named after them:
Staffers on The Hill mocked the move as the latest example of egos completely out of control.
Of course, one could argue that the Drudge Report itself is an example of an ego completely out of control…

Iraq’s Shiite Interior Minister — the one with ties to the thuggy Badr organization claims that torture allegations are exaggerated:
Interior Minister Bayn Jabr suggested some making the torture allegations were supporting the insurgency or had a personal score to settle and were using the U.S. Embassy to exert pressure on him. He also said the [...]

Last week I noted Michael Crowley’s observation that when Parade magazine turns against you, you’re in serious trouble.
Well, yesterday the vicious partisan wags at Parade claimed their first scalp. Congress voted to abandon two costly Alaskan bridges that had become a symbol of congressional excess. The blistering exposé in the magazine [...]

Time for a new acronym: YABDPP. As in, “Yet Another Blog Dedicated to a Pet Peeve.” Rolls off the tongue, doesn’t it?
Today’s winner: Apostrophe Abuse, published right here in Seattle.
(via Slog)

If you’re like me, you’ve tried to use Google to search for stupid things on your cell phone. You do it by sending a TXT message to 46645 (a.k.a. GOOGL). The most important use of this service, of course, is to settle arguments at bars, where having a computer is impractical.
In my experience, if [...]

I bet even the Vice-President agrees that this sort of torture is “unacceptable”:
Iraq’s government said Tuesday that it had ordered an urgent investigation of allegations that many of the 173 detainees American troops discovered over the weekend in the basement of an Interior Ministry building in a Baghdad suburb had been tortured by their Iraqi [...]