For the remaining days until the Connecticut primary pitting Joe Lieberman against Ned Lamont I will post something daily on the events there. I hope you have all been … [Keep reading >>]

Dave Neiwert of the indispensible Orcinus blog, and author of Strawberry Days, about the internement of Japanese Americans, has a moving summary of the brave woman at the Jewish Federation … [Keep reading >>]

AGAIN WITH THE PEACE THING

July 29, Tel Aviv — Women against the War: Coalition of Women for Peace, Achoti, ASWAT, Bat Shalom, Women in Black, Fora, Tandi, Women against violence, … [Keep reading >>]

There isn’t much good to talk about these days so this little article about oil-eating bacteria is at least a dim light in the darkness. I have my concerns … [Keep reading >>]

I’m sure Krugman will get his share of e-mail ripping him for his anti-Semitism or for being a self-hating Jew for today’s column. We point you to it here … [Keep reading >>]

I don’t know what all the furor is about. There’s a constant refrain heard around popular culture: just let me be me! Or, just let him be himself! … [Keep reading >>]

The Houston Chronicle’s Cragg Hines understands that a Congress in recess is a Congress with a lot of convincing to do: “By a margin of about 2-1, poll respondents who … [Keep reading >>]

Madison’s Capital Times has some unpleasant things to see about the mean girl: “Ann Coulter cannot and should not be censored. In this free country, she must be allowed to … [Keep reading >>]

Writing in the Guardian, author Karen Armstrong finds a pattern in the way in which Bush is handling the war in Lebanon: “Whatever Bush’s personal beliefs, the ideology of the … [Keep reading >>]

Peak oil theory takes center stage

The prospect seems unthinkable–mostly because the consequences, if true, would be unimaginable. Permanent fuel shortages would tip the world into a generations-long economic depression. Millions … [Keep reading >>]

There is no climate change. Energy use has nothing to do with it. Move everyone to Phoenix and Las Vegas and everything will be fine. [The Bush Administration: ... [Keep reading >>]

From the posts of Today In Iraq comes this link to a Washington Post story about tongues in Iraq talking about a government of national salvation.

BAGHDAD, July 28 — A … [Keep reading >>]