of the forces of division are multiplying again! “Herakles beats the living crap out of the worm of divisiness.”

grew up in the concrete jungle of South L.A., where she dealt drugs and saw her foster brother shot to death in front of their house. It’s a sad and all-too-common tale.  By lying to us, she’s deprived us of the essential truth of her story. 

In the comments to this morning’s post on Hillary Clinton’s fundraisers asking the DNC for their money back, folks noted that pro-Clinton bloggers are boycotting the Daily Kos.  At the NYT’s Caucus blog, Sarah Wheaton rounds up reax to the announcement, adding: “If the rift lingers after the primaries, the organizational value of the blogs could be compromised.”  A track record of seven winners to 12 losers never convinced me of

In a week marked by enunciations of extraordinary stupidity, this takes the prize:  Seymour Hersh, the journalist who exposed the massacre, said he sees parallels between My Lai and a more recent story that he has he reported on, the 2005 images of torture from the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. But he says the public furor unleashed by My Lai was far greater. “It’s stunning how much impact My Lai had

Hillary backers recognize Olbermann for hypocritical and sanctimonious douchebaggery. Correction: I’m not even sure about the Hillary backing.  It seems the Donklephant may simply be anti-mendoucheous. Obama squirms, wriggles on television To be fair, I kind of like Cass Sunstein, who really likes Obama

May be hazardous to libs. Since I arrived here last August, I have been struck by four things: the financial commitment we have made to reconstruction; the precipitous decline in violence; the inklings of representative government; and the small yet significant progress in communal relations between the mostly Shiite Iraqi army and the predominantly Sunni residents of this area. One often reads of the chaos plaguing Iraq. Yet the media

Those who have speculated over whether the controversies surrounding the race for the Democratic presidential nomination may hurt the nominee may find some tea leaves at the New York Times, regarding the disputed delegations in Michigan and Florida: Reflecting how tense the situation has become, influential fund-raisers for Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton have stepped up their behind-the-scenes pressure on national party leaders to resolve the matter, with some even threatening

Judgment you can trust: For the first time, Sen. Barack Obama put a figure Friday to the amount of campaign contributions that indicted political fund-raiser Tony Rezko raised for the senator’s campaigns, and the number — about $250,000 — was far more than he previously acknowledged. “We believe we have identified all money that is traceable. … It’s hard for me to know precisely. I don’t have the capacity to

Stephen Hayes has read the thing, and among the revelations therein contained  are: In 1993, as Osama bin Laden’s fighters battled Americans in Somalia, Saddam Hussein personally ordered the formation of an Iraqi terrorist group to join the battle there. For more than two decades, the Iraqi regime trained non-Iraqi jihadists in training camps throughout Iraq. According to a 1993 internal Iraqi intelligence memo, the regime was supporting a secret

Following up on TSI’s post:  The Chinese authorities blamed the Dalai Lama, the exiled spiritual leader of Tibet, for the violence and said the government would maintain stability in Lhasa. “The government of Tibet Autonomous Region said Friday there had been enough evidence to prove that the recent sabotage was ‘organized, premeditated and masterminded’ by the Dalai clique,” reported Xinhua, the Chinese government’s official news agency. Six Meat Brian exposes