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The Saudis, great and good friends of prominent leftists George Bush pere et fils, Dick Cheney and Grover Norquist, ban jewish and israeli tourists.

According to Haaretz, Tehran Radio says we caught bin Laden "some time ago" but we're withholding the news as an October surprise

Now the jury has to decide if Martha lied about doing what the government failed to prove she did

The Secret Service expands on their plans to lock down midtown Manhattan for the Convention

The numbers say that poor people are, and will continue to be, out of work. In New York, they're most likely to be black.

The Bush deficit forecast for 2011 is almost three trillion. The Clinton surplus forecast for 2011 was 5.6 trillion. Any questions?

Sen. Roberts: the Senate Intelligence Committee will not either subpoena the White House for the documents theyre withholding. Won't won't won't.

Only evangelicals who were planning to vote for Our Fearless Leader anyway are impressed.

How about unelected bureaucrats making laws from their desks? How do you freedom-loving libertarians feel about that?

Tara Bradshaw, a Treasury Department spokeswoman, confirmed the restrictions on manuscripts from Iran in a statement. Banned activities include, she wrote, "collaboration on and editing of the manuscripts, the selection of reviewers, and facilitation of a review resulting in substantive enhancements or alterations to the manuscripts."

She did not respond to a request seeking an explanation of the department's reasoning.

Congress has tried to exempt "information or informational materials" from the nation's trade embargoes. Since 1988, it has prohibited the executive branch from interfering "directly or indirectly" with such trade. That exception is known as the Berman Amendment, after its sponsor, Representative Howard L. Berman, a California Democrat.

Critics said the Treasury Department had long interpreted the amendment narrowly and grudgingly. Even so, Mr. Berman said, the recent letters were "a very bizarre interpretation."

Hastert reversed himself on the 9/11 Commission extension after McCain and Lieberman threatened to hold up the highway bill but promised to screw with the deadline more later

Shorter Scalia: Like election law, the obligation to be impartial only applies to people I don't approve of, and of course activist judges

Jayson Blair's publisher accuses the New York Times of journalistic misconduct and dishonest reporting

via Body and Soul, we find that Jeb "federal courts have no jurisdiction over the Gonzalez family" Bush demands that fleeing Haitians be sent back to die immediately because they don't live here

Tom DeLay's position on baseless partisan witch hunts has evolved

Scalia's position on the importance of international law has evolved

Jesse saw the Passion

Gorgeous rant from the Farmer

yippie cahiers, incestuous person

Jean Seberg, mouseketeer?

society's sick obsession with fiber deprivation

I can stop any time I want to, but I DON'T WANT TO

via Making Light

uh, yeah, right

remember when Republicans in congress started talking about capturing Saddam real soon right before we coincidentally happened upon him in that hole?

A top U.S. anti-terrorism official says al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden is on the run, amid what officials say is an intensifying hunt for fugitive members of the terror network. The U.S. official says he believes Osama bin Laden will be captured soon.

Ambassador J. Cofer Black, coordinator for the State Department counter-terrorism office, say the United States and its allies will find Osama bin Laden.

"I feel confident that it will be sooner rather than later, although I'm not going to speculate on the exact date," he said.

Nothing to look at. Move along.

oh, well, see?

The man is as good as caught. Our Fearless Leader personally approved a plan. Senior administration and military officials say so.

President Bush has approved a plan to intensify the effort to capture or kill Osama bin Laden, senior administration and military officials say, as a combination of better intelligence, improving weather and a refocusing of resources away from Iraq has reinvigorated the hunt along the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan.

The plan will apply both new forces and new tactics to the task, said senior officials in Washington and Afghanistan who were interviewed in recent days. The group at the center of the effort is Task Force 121, the covert commando team of Special Operations forces and Central Intelligence Agency officers. The team was involved in Saddam Hussein's capture and is gradually shifting its forces to Afghanistan to step up the search for Mr. bin Laden and Mullah Muhammad Omar, the former Taliban leader.
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After a visit to Pakistan earlier this month by the the director of central intelligence, George J. Tenet, American officials say, President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan appears to be far more seriously committed to tracking down Al Qaeda and Taliban militants along the semiautonomous border region.

See, before this, we weren't serious.

oh, terrific

Jeb, who has taken funds from an affordable housing trust fund paid for by a special real estate tax to pay other bills for the past two years, wants to keep the tax and put the money in the general fund.

But its not as if he's raising taxes or anything.

Is there anyone in this family who isn't a scumbag?

Hallelujah, brother.

If media reports are accurate, Christians the world over are finding Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ to be both shocking and inspirational.

In Matthew 25 Jesus told us that he would be with us in the persons of the poor, the homeless, the hungry, prisoners - in all those who are marginalized by the powerful in our society.

Why then do we Christians not pay attention to Christ crucified in those people: the homeless buried weekly at White Tanks Cemetery, immigrants crossing our borders trying to earn a living to feed their families, American soldiers and Iraqis dying daily, Mathew Shepard hanging from a fence in Wyoming, prisoners serving lengthy sentences for non-violent crimes, the bleeding and dying Palestinians, Israelis and Ugandans?

Jesus is with us. The Christ suffering every day in real people should inspire us and rouse us to action. Why are we blind to that Christ but not to Gibson's Christ?