From the Washington Post: A handful of people at Democratic National Headquarters distributed material critical of Israel during a public forum questioning the Bush administration’s Iraq policy, drawing an angry response and charges of anti-Semitism from party chairman Howard Dean on Friday. “We disavow the anti-Semitic literature, and the Democratic National Committee stands in absolute disagreement with and condemns the allegations,” Dean said in a statement posted on the DNC

—Please, cut the little fella some slack, willya? He’s a Jew, and this whole Conyers thing has him really shaken.  In fact, I caught him in the bathroom with a jar of rubber cement earlier this afternoon trying to reattach his foreskin.  Which, to be honest, I had no idea he’d even saved the damn thing— but you gotta admit, it’s starting to look like a wise play…

From the Washington Post’s Dana Milbank In the Capitol basement yesterday, long-suffering House Democrats took a trip to the land of make-believe. They pretended a small conference room was the Judiciary Committee hearing room, draping white linens over folding tables to make them look like witness tables and bringing in cardboard name tags and extra flags to make the whole thing look official. Rep. John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.) banged a

…Christ, I love the GOP.  And steak.  I love steak, too.  But not near as much as I love the GOP…

A country road. A tree.  Evening.  Godot, sitting on a low mound, smokes a cigarette and checks his watch. GODOT:  “…Stupid tramps…” GODOT:  … GODOT:  … GODOT:  “…You know what?  Fuck this.  I’m going for a cheesesteak…” ~finis~

If I’m reading him correctly, retired Navy Seal Matthew Heidt is less than thrilled with Democratic Senator Dick Durbin’s recent rhetorical flourishes on the floor of the Senate: I want Durbin’s job, and I want it now. I’ll be damned if a US Senator is going to get away with comparing my comrades to the Gestapo, or Stalin’s thugs. To the people of the Great State of Illinois, none of

What she said²

I’m not saying that it’s so, mind you, but what if—what if— the torture committed by US military personnel on those freedom fighters being held illegally at Guantanamo Bay really is “equally as bad” as the torture committed by Saddam? Isn’t it intellectually brave to ask such questions—even if, deep down, we already know the answers?  I mean, don’t high-traffic leftwing blogs like the Daily Kos have an obligation to

From the Washington Times: Sunday night’s episode of “Tatort,” a popular murder mystery that has been running on state-run ARD-German television for 35 years, revolved around a German woman and a man who was killed in her apartment. According to the plot, which was seen by approximately 7 million Germans, the dead man had been trained to be one of the September 11 pilots but was left behind, only to

From UPI: A former Bush team member during his first administration is now voicing serious doubts about the collapse of the World Trade Center on 9-11. Former chief economist for the Department of Labor during President George W. Bush’s first term Morgan Reynolds comments that the official story about the collapse of the WTC is “bogus” and that it is more likely that a controlled demolition destroyed the Twin Towers