Or, all the lies that are fit to spread.

Not sure what’s going on here: Columbus Mayor Michael Coleman plans to announce he will drop out of the race for the Democratic nomination for governor. A news conference is scheduled for this afternoon to formally announce his withdrawal from the race. Coleman met with his family members over the Thanksgiving holiday and made the decision… Cross-posted at Julien’s List.

Make sure to read Seymour Hersh’s latest at The New Yorker — on Bush, Murtha, and where the Iraq War is headed. As usual, he cuts through all the White House spin and reveals what’s really going on. I’d pick out a few key passages, but it’s all good. Okay, here’s one: “Current and former military and intelligence officials have told me that the President remains convinced...

While President Bush spins himself silly rewriting history and otherwise avoiding responsibility for his own messes, Prime Minister Blair, who weekly stands before a raucous House of Commons during Question Period, is about to face perhaps his biggest political challenge — and he may not survive.

From The Globe and Mail: The short-lived 38th Parliament met its demise on Monday night, setting the stage for the longest election campaigns in two decades, as the Liberal government was defeated in a no-confidence vote at the hands of all three opposition parties and the country was launched into official election mode. The Liberals lost the vote in the House of Commons 133 to 171, beginning a series of events...

You know, this is probably BS, but it’s interesting nonetheless… From the AP: KATHMANDU (Reuters) – Authorities in Nepal urged religious groups and scientists on Sunday to help solve the mystery of a meditating teenaged boy who some believe is an incarnation of Buddha. At least 100,000 devotees from Nepal and neighbouring India have flocked in recent weeks to a dense forest in southeastern...

My respect for him grows. NEW YORK (Reuters) – The United States needs to set milestones for progress, not a firm withdrawal date, before it can leave Iraq, Virginia governor and prospective Democratic presidential candidate Mark Warner said on Monday. “This Democrat doesn’t think we need to re-fight how we got into (the Iraq war). I think we need to focus more on how to finish it,” Warner...

When you screw up, it’s essential you own up. Now, all of us know this, but it’s still very hard thing to do. And there’s also a right way to apologize for your indiscretions and a wrong way. Too many people unfortunately (and unwittingly) choose to pick the latter. Find out who’s done it the right way recently and why I sincerely respect their poignant apology.

Perhaps he was just visiting to get his sheets washed: During a visit to Syria last week, white supremacist and former U.S. State Representative from Louisiana David Duke spoke at a rally in support of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, appeared at a Damascus press conference, met with Syrian Grand Mufti Ahmed Hassoun, [1] and gave an interview to Syrian TV…. During the press conference, on November 21,...

President George W. Bush is moving to an item on his agenda that he has tried to deal with before but postponed due to opposition within the Republican Party itself: the thorny issue of immigration reform. The Washington Post reports: President Bush promoted his administration’s efforts to get a grip on illegal immigration, spotlighting a plan to tighten security along the southern border and calling for...

One of the red flags about the Bush administration is being raised by a close aide to former Secretary of State Colin Powell — and he doesn’t mince words. The latest verbal broadside: a remarkably blunt and angry interview by former Powell chief of staff Lawrence Wilkerson who suggests that Bush administration bigwigs see the President as someone whose desires trump international law — a President...

Insects are one of life’s great success stories. They have evolved into five million living species, dwarfing the diversity of all other animals combined… Cross-posted at Julien’s List.

President George W. Bush and Democratic Senator Joseph Biden apparently share “remarkably similar” Iraq plans. Some Republicans, er, didn’t get the memo.

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According to Congressional Quarterly: MONDAY, NOV. 28, 2005 – 2:16 P.M. Rep. Randy “Duke� Cunningham, R-Calif., pleaded guilty today to federal charges of conspiring to take bribes from a defense contractor. Appearing in U.S. District Court in San Diego, the eight-term congressman also pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit mail fraud and one count of tax evasion. Sentencing was set...

Make of this what you will. I’ll just report it as is: Human rights abuses in Iraq are as bad as they were under Saddam Hussein if not worse, former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi has said. “People are doing the same as (in) Saddam’s time and worse,” Allawi said in an interview published in Britain on Sunday. “It is an appropriate comparison,” Allawi told The Observer newspaper....

I know a couple of private security guards in Iraq — truly honourable men doing incredibly difficult work — but this is extremely ugly and gives them all a bad name.

Bull Moose takes a detailed look at this question. Here’s a very small part of his intriguing post: Despite its manifold merits, the blogosphere is beset by a proliferation of crudity, hyperbole and hyper-partisanship. And all of that is often found on the most popular sites on the left and the right. The Moose is often amused over being denounced by some of the larger lefty sites. Actually, it is welcomed...

The New York Sun‘s Josh Gerstein writes what some talking heads in television have begun to say in passing: Arizona Senator John McCain’s star is (for now at least) on the ascent: Senator McCain of Arizona is emerging as an early favorite for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008 as a result of a shift in the issues dominating the American political landscape, according to political analysts. Intensifying...

They’re laying it out and so it WILL happen. But they’re leaning on Biden? More here.®

Over the past couple months, I have pondered this piece a dozen times and written at least a dozen copies. In 1849, Henry David Thoreau published “Resistance to Civil Government”, which later became known as “Civil Disobedience”. Infamously, Thoreau said: I HEARTILY ACCEPT the motto,—”That government is best which governs least”; and I should like to see it acted...