From The Washington Times: The head of the United Nations’ nuclear monitor has rejected an EU request to condemn Iran’s nuclear program. Mohamed ElBaradei, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, was urged to issue a condemnation of the Iranian situation before his agency meets in special session next month. But, ElBaradei, though frustrated by Iran’s resumption of nuclear research and a slowdown in Iranian cooperation with his inspectors,

Karl Rove, speaking to the RNC on Friday: “Republicans have a post-9/11 view of the world. And Democrats have a pre-9/11 view of the world,” Rove told Republican activists. “That doesn’t make them unpatriotic, not at all. But it does make them wrong — deeply and profoundly and consistently wrong.” Democratic Party chairman Howard Dean denounced Rove’s remarks and renewed his call for the deputy White House chief of staff

Massachusetts Senator and failed Democratic Presidential candidate John Kerry, writing on Daily Kos: There’s something that doesn’t sit right with me when, on the day Osama Bin Laden resurfaced in a disturbing audio tape, cable television ends up in a game of name calling as a war protester is compared to Osama Bin Laden. That’s reason to be outraged – but even more outrageous is the fact that in a

To everything (turn, turn, turn) There is a season (turn, turn, turn) And a time for every purpose, under heaven —Except when the “purpose” convinces you that stuffing a pound of diced uncooked shrimp, two tablespoons wasabe, 1/4 ml purified blowfish extract, and a half dozen 40 oz Kirins into a beer bong and mainlining the whole thing during a blackmarket Samurai Champloo marathon you’ve had specially intercut with adult