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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

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