With a 4-3 victory over Roger Clemens this afternoon, the Colorado Rockies completed their 3-game sweep of the New York Yankees, increasing their record since late May to a major league best 20-7 and cooling off the American League’s hottest team before a Coors Field record crowd for a 3 game series. With the win, the Rockies have climbed to 4 games over .500 for the first time this season,

In one of his increasingly predictable rhetorical broadsides, Andrew Sullivan labels male circumcision “child abuse” — a claim that he should, by all rights, follow up with a call for the aggressive prosecution of mohels, surgeons, and the parents of those children who are being butchered either out of fidelity to religious ritual, habit, feints toward “normalization,” or controversial claims about hygiene and health. Sullivan’s point that ritual circumcision should

From ABC’s The Blotter: A satellite photograph obtained by ABC News reveals Pakistan is nearing completion of a third, previously unknown plutonium production reactor, suggesting Pakistan may be planning to expand its nuclear weapons arsenal. “With large stocks of plutonium, Pakistan can build a new generation of lighter, more powerful weapons that can more easily be launched via missiles and can cause far more damage,” said David Albright, the president

And that might be a good thing, insofar as it will draw clarifying lines that may — and I stress may — prove to reframe the War on Terror in a way that is far less nebulous, and that certainly is far less politically correct. I have, on various occasions, criticized President Bush — mildly — for an unwillingness to frame this war in a way that specifically identifies the

“…does that make any sense at all? We can’t even agree about what to call ourselves,” quips renowned progressive blogger Digby, speaking of what she calls “the netroots” to a netroots crowd that seems (counterintuitively, given her previous claim) to have little problem knowing exactly who she’s talking about. — But of course, none of what Digby argues (progressive bloggers have a wide variety of interests!) addresses the force of