Hard to believe. The bloggers candidate, Ned Lamont, has received the endorsement of the New York Times for the August 8 Connecticut primary pitting him against the sitting kissing Senator … [Keep reading >>]

I don’t know if it will become a movement — though Independents for Democrats looks to be — but it’s good to see Pete McCloskey endorse Jerry McNerney –an honorable … [Keep reading >>]

Writing in the Albuquerque Tribune, Barbara McKee chides Bush for his stubborn, ‘luddite’ nature in vetoing stem cell research: “Changing one’s mind can be a sign of strength, not weakness. … [Keep reading >>]

A team of Seattle Times reporters files this profile of Naveed Haq who is accused of shooting six women in the Jewish Federation building in Seattle: “A friend of Haq’s … [Keep reading >>]

Writing in the Guardian, Muslim MP Sadiq Khan (with abundant reader comment) describes the anger of his community with regard to UK’s policy on Lebanon: “The people being killed happen … [Keep reading >>]

Happy were those blessed times that lacked the horrifying fury of the diabolical instruments of artillary, whose inventor, in my opinion, is in hell, receiving the reward for his accursed invention, which allows an ignoble and cowardly hand to take the life of a valiant knight, so that not knowing how it comes, or from where, a stray shot is fired into the courage and spirit that inflame and animate a brave heart, sent by one who perhaps fled in fear at the bright flare when the damned machine discharged it, and cuts off and ends in an instant the thoughts and life of one who deserved to enjoy many more long years.

Don Quixote de La Mancha, discoursing on Knight Errantry

All wars bring unintended consequences, many of them bad, some of them good. Much as been said, for example, about the benificent effects of radar, invented in WW II, … [Keep reading >>]

So comes Act II: a gunman (or more) goes after Jews in the U.S. Now I wonder, did the geniuses in the Israeli high-command factor in this surity when … [Keep reading >>]

For having a reputation as the smartest army in the world the Israeli Defense Forces sure didn’t look at recent history they ought to have had a vital interest in … [Keep reading >>]

Glen Greenwald, How Would a Patriot Act?, is one of the bloggers I turn to regularly. This post is worth putting up in its entirety. In it he … [Keep reading >>]

Writing in Ft. Lauderdale’s Sun-Sentinel, Jim Mullins is outraged at the half-hearted measures adopted by the US and others to halt this war: “The U.S. vetoed a unanimous cease-fire vote … [Keep reading >>]

As reported by Jim Tankersley of the Toledo Blade, state republican leaders have been forced to apologize to the democratic candidate for governor, US Rep. Ted Strickland, for comments that … [Keep reading >>]

A new ‘voter identification’ law is now in force in Missouri, and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch has reason to believe that the ensuing chaos was deliberately imposed: “There’s no telling … [Keep reading >>]

The Guardian’s Jonathan Steele attempst to explain why Hizbullah will likely remain on the scene long after the bombs stop dropping: “So my strongest impression of the rally came from … [Keep reading >>]

As reported by Al Jazeera, Israel has somehow interpreted a Rome conference resolution as giving it ‘tacit’ permission to continue the carnage in Lebanon: “Ramon said on Thursday the conference … [Keep reading >>]

Yep.

WASHINGTON, July 27 (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Thursday directed more than 2,500 U.S. troops who have spent the past year in Iraq to stay up to four … [Keep reading >>]

Oh good. Oil spills along the shores of Lebanon. 10,000 to 30,000 tons of heavy oil. Storage tanks blown up in the search for Hezbollah militants hiding within. … [Keep reading >>]

Paul Campos of Denver’s Rocky Mountain News takes on Alan Dershowitz’s proposal to label Lebanese as combatants for foolishly staying in their homes after receiving threats of destructution from Israel: … [Keep reading >>]

The Charleston (WVA) Gazette uges readers to assess Bush’s recent ‘outreach’ to Black voters with skepticism: “The GOP is attempting to woo black voters in the same manner that it … [Keep reading >>]

Writing in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Brian Fogarty makes some chilling parallels between the current US and Germany 80 years ago: “How would we react if things got worse? If we … [Keep reading >>]