This is blood, but better. It can carry 100 times as much oxygen as the real stuff. Find out why that's not only REALLY good news for us, but also for our troops in Iraq. … [Read more...] about …But What Will Vampires Think?

If you glance around at the post-election political landscape, the odds are you're going to see a lot of moderate Dem voices in government. Alan Stewart Carl takes a closer look. … [Read more...] about Dems Winning With Centrist Voices

Actually, it's CG liquid, and it's amazing. Give it a watch. So since that's solved, what's next? Flying cars? Government that actually works for the people instead of for themselves? I'm holding out for the flying cars. … [Read more...] about Perfect Fake Water

First, Claire McCaskill:Claire McCaskill's campaign called on Sen. John Kerry to apologize for a "botched joke" he made on Monday. "[McCaskill] said it's a dumb thing to say and he should apologize," said McCaskill spokeswoman Adrainne Marsh.Then from Harold Ford, Jon Tester and Ben Cardin: "Whatever the intent, Senator Kerry was wrong to say what he said," said Democratic … [Read more...] about Centrist Dems To Kerry: Apologize Dummy

Is morality undergirded by biology? That's a question Heraclitus asked, and attempted to answer, in a recent post at The Reaction. His conclusion: "That's what nature is: animals literally eating each other alive. Trying to show that this natural world somehow constrains us to act morally strikes me as not only contemptibly slavish but ludicrously wrong-headed as well." Read … [Read more...] about Morality and biology

Powerblogs has axed trackbacks due to excessive spam and they've been nice enough to help us install technorati trackbacks so we and readers can still keep tabs on who is linking to our posts. If someone wishes to leave a link to their own post, then there is the comments section. But if we find spam links in the comment section those commentors will automatically and … [Read more...] about We’ve Changed Our Trackbacks

Dick Polman on John Kerry:The problem for Democrats is obvious: On a day when the news out of Iraq is that Bush’s own military hierarchy is saying that his freedom agenda is more imperiled by chaos and potential civil war than ever before – news that the Democrats might wish to emphasize, as part of their ongoing bid to make the ’06 elections a referendum on the president … [Read more...] about Quote Of The Day: Dick Polman On John Kerry

Alright, folks, back to reality. This election is about the Iraq war. In August General John Abizaid said that Iraq was at risk of falling into civil war. But he held out hope that that wouldn't happen. He even developed a series of metrics to determine if Iraq was getting more peaceful, or sliding toward chaos. These metrics included militia activity, militant rhetoric from … [Read more...] about Iraq in Chaos – The Real Issue

The Big Election is a week away and Christmas is one month away. And yesterday it seemed as if Massachusetts Senator John Kerry gave the Republicans' "we're-on-the-defensive" campaign a nice, big early Christmas gift, tidily packaged, neatly wrapped and ready for immediate use. Kerry made a comment that GOPers — with President George W. Bush gleefully in the forefront … [Read more...] about Is John Kerry The Gift That Keeps On Giving For Bush And The GOP? (UPDATED)

THIS JUST IN from investigative reporter Andy Borowitz:Chertoff Raises Threat Level on Reports of Imminent Election Calls Threat of November 7 Vote 'Credible' Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff today raised the national threat level to red after intelligence reports indicated that a national election could be imminent. Speaking at a Washington press conference, Mr. … [Read more...] about This Just In!

(Cross-posted from Teenage Pundit) The ad parodies several of [Democratic candidate] Ford's political positions through mock interviews with people defending or agreeing with him. "Terrorists need their privacy," a woman indignantly insists. "Ford's right," says a hunter , "I do have too many guns." A Wilford Brimley look-alike declares, "Canada can take care of North Korea … [Read more...] about The Harold Ford Ad Scandal: Pots Calling The Kettle Racist

Sean Aqui looks at the state-to-state landscape and sees yet another chance for the Dems to shift power away from the right. More here. … [Read more...] about Dems Gain At The State Level Too?

It's the money stupid... From the Wash Post:Failing to curb the impact of climate change could damage the global economy on the scale of the Great Depression or the world wars by spawning environmental devastation that could cost 5 to 20 percent of the world's annual gross domestic product, according to a report issued yesterday by the British government. The report by … [Read more...] about The Real Threat of Global Warming

Maybe you've heard that our military is detaining an AP photographer indefinitely in Iraq. They scooped him up in April of this year, bu they still won't charge him with anything. Incidentally, the military did the same thing to a CBS cameraman in 2005, and subsequently released him after a YEAR of detainment at Abu Ghraib. Good times. I have more on the unfortunate case of … [Read more...] about The Case of Bilal Hussein

They're mad as hell and they're not going to be undervalued anymore...or something like that. Read more about this turnaround here. … [Read more...] about Dems Support Repub Steele In Maryland Senate Race

Muwhaha Now this is an episode of Oprah I like.Oprah Winfrey, who likes to lavish gifts on her studio audience — diamond-encrusted watches, Sony camcorders, Burberry coats, BlackBerrys, cashmere sweaters, iPods, wide-screen LCD televisions, washer-dryers, Pontiac G6s — yesterday gave approximately 300 audience members each $1,000. "I really do think that it's the … [Read more...] about Forced Charity

Annette Nijs That's it, I've had it. RTL Nieuws did some interesting research: it seems that our members of Parliament miss, on average, 20% of all 'meetings' in 2003. 20%. The only days that they have these 'meetings' or 'assemblies' are on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. All the other days, they can do other things. Besides that, they have 16 weeks off from Parliament as … [Read more...] about Members of Parliament Stealing Our Money

UPDATE: Coverage in Washington Post with a link to video: A Democratic activist who verbally confronted U.S. Sen. George Allen (R) at a campaign rally in Charlottesville today was shoved, put into a chokehold and thrown against a window by three men wearing Allen stickers, according to a widely disseminated video of the incident. W. Michael Stark, who identified himself in an … [Read more...] about UPDATED: Apparently Assault is Now a GOP Value

Well, well, well, the New York Times reports that North Korea has agreed to resume the so-called six-nations talks. But Mr. Hill [the chief American envoy to North Korea] emphasized that the sanctions imposed by the United Nations Security Council after the nuclear test would remain in place, and he cautioned North Korea against conducting a second test. More: The statement … [Read more...] about North Korea Agrees to Resuming Six-Nations Talks

A woman, convicted of murder, shouts before she is taken to be executed in Ghangzhou, April 11, 2001 © Reuters The New York Times has some encouraging information about China: China's legislature on Tuesday barred all but the nation's highest court from approving death sentences, a move that state media called the country's biggest change to capital punishment in more than 20 … [Read more...] about An Important Change in China