From ABC News: The United Nations has begun a worldwide drive to counter the threat of a global flu pandemic. The U.N.’s new avian flu czar, Dr. David Nabarro, will head up the drive to contain the disease and prepare for its possible jump to humans. The avian flu virus is spread by chickens, ducks and other birds and has been a problem in Southeast Asia for several years, killing

…the fact is, MY mustache was taking shrapnel in Tora Bora while Bolton’s was stateside eating shrimp cocktails and sipping Michelob Lights from a chilled Pilsner glass.  So don’t presume to lecture ME about ‘tough’!  I mean, my mustache has been in the SHIT, man…!

Among those who voted nay on Roberts are Bayh, Biden, Clinton, Kerry, and Obama—all candidates to pursue higher office, including nearly every ostensible 2008 Democratic Presidential candidate from the Senate (with Joe Lieberman the exception; though, as John Cole points out, he himself has “a better chance of being the ‘08 Democratic nominee than Joe Lieberman”). I’m really only surprised at the Clinton vote (Bayh completed his slide left when

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“Conservative” pundit Andrew Sullivan, on the military’s recently completed investigation into allegations that US soldiers provided snuff photos to a porn site in exchange for free access.  (The investigation found that no felony crime had been committed and that the relative anonymity of online transactions make pinpointing point of origin very difficult): Violation of the Geneva Conventions? Who cares? This is the Bush administration. The Geneva Conventions are a dead

Even though half the Democratic caucus voted for Roberts, that this vote wasn’t far closer to unanimous is still very troubling; as far as “conservative” judicial nominees go, Roberts was nearly perfect.  Which suggests that being “conservative” is in and of itself, for some Democratic Senators, enough to exclude a candidate for the bench—even when he is replacing another clear conservative (as Roberts was in William Rehnquist). This next battle

Okay, so asparagus makes my urine stink. Your point?