TMV's own posts will be quite limited between today and Sunday. The reason: he will be traveling to a variety of cities in what is truly a break-neck schedule. His posts will appear but not as much during the day. And he might not be around to post on breaking news. However, stay tuned and keep checking back often since our always-independent cobloggers will have some things … [Read more...] about Note To Readers

Newsweek's Howard Fineman tells us to hold onto our hats — and that if they can't capitalize on this Democrats should hold onto their whigs:An Iraq war that has cost us nearly half trillion dollars – and the good will of the world – might not have done it. Runaway federal spending that allowed the national debt to reach $8.5 trillion might not have done it. George … [Read more...] about Fineman: It Is Going To Get Real Ugly In The Partisan Foley Scandal Battle

...takes on a different meaning... … [Read more...] about Sometimes Something

The latest revelation from ABC News sounds as if, while working, former Rep. Mark Foley seemingly wanted to do to a teenage page what he has now done to the Republican Party:Former Congressman Mark Foley (R-FL) interrupted a vote on the floor of the House in 2003 to engage in Internet sex with a high school student who had served as a congressional page, according to new … [Read more...] about Foley Had “Internet Sex” While Waiting For A House Vote

Get a smattering of today's worst arguments here. … [Read more...] about Bad Argument Extravaganza

....or the future and survival of the United States is at stake. … [Read more...] about Dennis Hastert Stays On The Job

...and you could get arrested for "assault." QUESTION: In what other administration, including the beset Johnson and Nixon administrations, have you ever seen this? … [Read more...] about Criticize Vice President Cheney’s Iraq Policies To His Face

Well, I reported yesterday that two Americans won the Nobel Prize for Medicine. It is starting to get boring, but here ya go: Nobel Prize in physics is won by two Americans as well. Dr. Mather and Dr. Smoot led a team of more than 1,000 scientists, engineers and technicians that built and launched the Cosmic Background Explorer, or Cobe, satellite in 1989 to study a haze of … [Read more...] about This Is Getting Ridiculous

Fellow Dutchman 'Joey' left a comment in the Tragedy At Amish Schoolhouse thread. His comment was the following: When does America finally do something about the amount of guns freely available to anyone in the country? The reason that I quote Joey is that he is asking a question many, many, many, many (fellow) Europeans ask themselves (and if possible they will ask this to … [Read more...] about Guns

Congressman Thomas Reynolds held a press conference to answer questions about his role in the growing scandal over Rep. Mark Foley's suggestive and graphic emails to an underage teenage page. And, apparently believing imagery is the name-of-the-game, he surrounded himself with....did you guess?..a literal SEA of kids. We've heard of using human shields, but this is … [Read more...] about The Most Amazing Crisis Press Conference Ever

From this (why independents are breaking the way they are). … [Read more...] about Oh, Truly Give Me A BREAK

And how did it play with David Adesnik?Anyhow, the Santorum campaign shouldn't expect a check from this household. That's not the kind of conservatism I can support.READ WHY HERE. … [Read more...] about Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum Sends A Fundraising Letter To Oxblog

...at Captain's Quarters...not that Captain Ed Morrissey really needs lots of hits from TMV! We've featured lots of sites and weblogs for our readers in our TAPs. But we haven't featured a big, still-growing conservative site in a long time — one that offers consistent analysis that is quite informative even if you don't agree with all of the person's positions or belong … [Read more...] about Take A Peek….

Violence against women remains a massive and massively ignored problem. … [Read more...] about The Forgotten Victims

For all the talk about the Palestinian refugee crisis (and I agree it's a serious problem), is it not worth noting the amazing degradation in the Jewish population of the Arab world over the past 60 years? … [Read more...] about With Arms Wide Open

What's the most basic issue that goes back to the days way before there were political parties? Back to prehistoric times? Protecting your family. Protecting your kids. And, if you don't have kids, protecting kids. And knowing that a society, others are looking out to protect others, especially kids. It's an easy issue to comprehend — and it's at the root of why the … [Read more...] about Why Foley Teen Boy Scandal Can Fuel GOP Defeat (UPDATED)

THIS JUST IN from investigative reporter Andy Borowitz:Foley's 'No Congressional Page Left Behind' Bill Faces Uphill Struggle in the House Last Official Act of Embattled Lawmaker House Republicans were in a quandary today as to how to handle a controversial new bill entitled "No Congressional Page Left Behind" proposed by Rep. Mark Foley (R-Fla) in the hours before his … [Read more...] about This Just In!

How Osama bin Laden damaged America — explained by Michael Grant (a colleague of mine when I was a staff reporter on the San Diego Union) RIGHT HERE. An excerpt:Reaction is bin Laden’s sword. At first it was a tiny sword, no bigger than 19 boxcutters being snuck through security. Today the sword is huge, for one simple, maddening reason, one reaction that bin Laden was … [Read more...] about The 19 Man Army

Quick, get Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice some Ginkgo biloba. It's clear she needs it after you read this:A review of White House records has determined that George J. Tenet, then the director of central intelligence, did brief Condoleezza Rice and other top officials on July 10, 2001, about the looming threat from Al Qaeda, a State Department spokesman said Monday. The … [Read more...] about Tenet Did Brief Rice On 911 Threat

Some conservatives are refusing to follow the GOP lines on the scandal involving resigned Republican Rep. Mark Foley's inappropriate and sometimes graphic email exchanges with an underage teen page — and they're calling on House Majority Leader Dennis Hastert to resign. And one of the names is a big name in GOP circles:“Speaker Hastert had knowledge of Congressman … [Read more...] about Some Conservatives Going After Hastert