Toxicology tests by the state medical examiner’s office showed that Delp committed suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning, said Lt. William Baldwin. Delp also left two notes taped to a door and letters to his family and (his fiancee). I guess you never really know what’s going on in someone’s head. He and his fiancee were going to be married this summer, and the band was getting back together for a

…confesses, and the (entirely non-representative of anyone or anything, ever) progressive netroot cabal at the Huffington Post (which is in no way affiliated with the views of either its members or its heavily-moderated commenters) react. Apparently. —Because it’s my guess that—just as they were when Dick Cheney was thought to be nearly blown up in Bagram—these “commenters” are actually highly-trained and carefully recruited foot soldiers from Free Republic or Townhall

Headline of the Day: Clinton, Obama skirt queries on gays in the military Document: Decline of Western Civilization Taste for Guinness wanes in changing Ireland They can take our lives, but they’ll never take away our stout! Fox attacks Black America (James Rucker in HuffPo) I sent a letter detailing my concerns to the CBC Institute’s director and members of its board who serve in Congress, along with a list

Matt Stoller, a “blogger and thought leader in the internet wing of the progressive movement,” opined at The Politico that “Republican Propaganda Is Not News.” As I figure that a “thought leader” probably knows a thing or two about propaganda, I read on.

From the AP: Top House Democrats retreated Monday from an attempt to limit President Bush’s authority for taking military action against Iran as the leadership concentrated on a looming confrontation with the White House over the Iraq war. Officials said Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other members of the leadership had decided to strip from a major military spending bill a requirement for Bush to gain approval from Congress before moving

According to the DoD, both US soldier and Iraqi civilian deaths have declined significantly since the US surge took effect.  From KUNA: The rate of killings of US troops in Iraq has been on the decline, down by 60 percent, since the launch of the new security measures in Baghdad, according to statistics revealed by the Multi-National Force -Iraq Combined Press Information Centre. Only 17 members of the US military

From the AP: The Pentagon’s top general said Tuesday he should not have voiced his personal view that homosexuality is immoral and should have just stated his support for the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy in an interview that has drawn criticism from lawmakers and gay-rights groups. The written statement by Marine Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, did not apologize for his stance on

As of today, it looks like I’ll be heading to Las Vegas at the behest of Pajamas Media to cover the upcoming Democratic debate on health care, to be held at UNLV on March 24th.  I’d be interested to hear your ideas on what angle I should take, using either the debate, the post-debate press room session, or Vegas itself as the backdrop.  One idea I had was to interview