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After the US government reported being unable to track down witnesses that Guantanamo detainee Abdullah Mujahid claimed would prove his innocence of terrorism, England’s lefty newspaper the Guardian took a shot at it. The paper claims that it
searched for Mr Mujahid’s witnesses and found them within three days. One was working for President Hamid Karzai. [...]

I kind of hope we are in for a redistricting boom in the wake of the Supreme Court’s recent decision to uphold most of the DeLay Texas map.
I hope that all state legislatures (both Dem- and GOP-controlled) take this opportunity to shamelessly re-draw districts to their advantages every chance they get. Several good things [...]

Not to pile on Hillary (following Bruno), but her McCain-esque* triangulation on flag burning — damn you dirty hippies and your lighter fluid! — is apparently pleasing absolutely no one:
Perhaps even more than her stance on the war in Iraq, it is Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s position on flag desecration that has drawn the scorn [...]

Even when she tries to go on the offensive and attack Bush, people just tend to assume she’s fragging other Democrats.
Where ever would we get that idea?

That’s what will determine troop levels in Iraq, according to President Bush. However:
The withdrawal of 20,000-40,000 U.S. troops from Iraq this fall would greatly help Republican chances in the November election, Rep. Mark Souder (R-Ind.) said at a fundraiser Thursday at the National Rifle Association.
Souder acknowledged in his remarks that the war in Iraq [...]

No 15 minutes here — Ken Jennings has a blog*! And it’s pretty interesting, showing that maybe you do need to be extra smart to succeed at Jeopardy:
The British love trivia (one in ten Britons self-identified as a “quizaholic” in one recent survey) but my sense is their nomenclature is a little different from ours [...]

The pinstripe suits… the slicked-back hair… the silk hankerchiefs. I’ve long wondered if Joe Biden has any Italian heritage like I do. Finally, I think we have proof, in the form of his answer to a question on being president:
Speaking to a group of 130 twenty- and thirty-something supporters of his leadership [...]

On this week’s show, we discussed the silliness of the government-fueled Ethanol boom. Here’s another example of the wackiness that ensues when government policy is aimed at short-term expediencey as opposed to true long-term goals.
Virginia allows hybrids and other low emission vehicles to use carpool lanes. This causes the carpool lanes [...]

Like a social drinker or smoker, I’m a social soccer fan, which means that I’ve watched some of the World Cup with a passing interest. This, however, is a nice post about why soccer is great, and it made me rethink some of my latent, usually unstated qualms with the sport:
Re the infrequency of scoring: [...]

Saturday marked the 25th anniversary of the conclusion of the longest professional baseball game ever. If you’ve ever groaned after watching a scoreboard operator reset the inning display, if you’ve ever rooted against your team just so the damn game would end or if you’ve ever felt a twinge of disappointment after the home team [...]