Well, besides the Republicans? One of my favorite Democrat Senators. And he has some VERY good points. … [Read more...] about Who’s Pointing Out The Dems Are Split On Iraq?

Sad indeed... BAGHDAD — An unnamed woman, her face shielded behind a curtain and her voice masked, gave a harrowing account today of torture and sexual abuse at the hands of Saddam Hussein’s security forces during the trial of the former Iraqi leader. “They forced me to take off my clothes,â€? said the woman, referred to only as Witness A by the court. “They kept my … [Read more...] about Saddam’s Attorneys Use Abu Ghraib To Rebut Torture

Some are saying that he'll rule the all-time box office. What do you think? … [Read more...] about Will Kong Be King?

He gets it...right. … [Read more...] about Lindsey Graham On Detainee Rights

to find out that TMV has been nominated in the Best Group Blog category in Wizbang's Weblog Awards — and although we're not holding our breath about winning, we do hope you'll vote. Here's the link where you can vote on this category. Visit all the fine blogs and if you like TMV you're allowed to VOTE once every 24 hour period. Polling ends December 15th. Here's the … [Read more...] about It Was A Pleasant Surprise To Our Readers, Too…

President Bush is part of the war on Christmas:What's missing from the White House Christmas card? Christmas. This month, as in every December since he took office, President Bush sent out cards with a generic end-of-the-year message, wishing 1.4 million of his close friends and supporters a happy "holiday season." Many people are thrilled to get a White House Christmas card, … [Read more...] about Attention Bill O’Reilly:

Amid rumors that he could be under consideration for Defense Secretary in 2006, and reports that the highly independent man he defeated for Senate may run against him when he's up for re-election, Senator Joe Lieberman has now been pitchforked back into the headlines with this proposal: Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman, increasingly isolated in his own Democratic party because of his … [Read more...] about Senator Joseph Lieberman Wants A “War Cabinet”

...because they make a greater share of the income. Plus the fact that we have a progressive tax structure. Why is this fact so difficult to understand? And why is it that so many otherwise intelligent conservative thinkers love to trot it out? … [Read more...] about The Rich Pay a Greater Share of Taxes…

Op-Ed in today's Washington Post: Subjecting the newly declassified White House "National Strategy for Victory in Iraq" to a cynically inspired computer search, I find that the name "Donald Rumsfeld" is missing from the document's 35 pages. A reasonable person would be confounded by this. How can we have "Victory in Iraq" if the man in command has already brought us … [Read more...] about Richard Cohen: Let Rumsfeld Go

From the BBC: "David Cameron has been elected as the new Conservative leader by a margin of more than two to one over David Davis. The 39-year-old beat Mr Davis by 134,446 votes to 64,398 in a postal ballot of Tory members across the UK." I'll have more on this, including analysis of what Cameron's victory means for the Conservative Party and the future of British politics, in … [Read more...] about David Cameron wins U.K. Conservative Party leadership race

Here's some disturbing news from Kansas: A professor whose planned course on creationism and intelligent design was canceled after he sent e-mails deriding Christian conservatives was hospitalized Monday after what appeared to be a roadside beating. University of Kansas religious studies professor Paul Mirecki said that the two men who beat him made references to the class … [Read more...] about Anti-ID Kansas professor beaten by cowardly thugs

Subject2Discussion is an internet radio program I'm on every Tuesday at 9:30 p.m. CST. Apparently, the podcast of last week's program was downloaded over 6,800 times. So if you want to listen tonight, just click here and you'll either launch an audio application or you'll download a file that you then click on and THEN it launches an audio player. I'm on a Mac so it's … [Read more...] about Political Internet Radio Tonight

My latest salvo in the "political affirmative action" debate is up. … [Read more...] about Another Round, Please

According to MSNBC, "Atheist Agenda" (a student organization at the U. of Texas San Antonio) has offered to swap smut for holy books brought in. … [Read more...] about Trade Your Bible for Porn?

TNR's Ryan Lizza makes the case (I think it requires registration, but if you're not already onboard with The New Republic, you should be). … [Read more...] about Obama ’08?

A friend who attends McGill University asked me to blog about The Montreal Massacre, which happened on this date in 1989. I had never heard of the event until he told me about it, but basically a man who felt that "the feminists" were responsible for him not getting into engineering school went to a local university and systematically gunned down all the female students he … [Read more...] about Montreal Massacre

Hey all, the site has been down for pretty much the entire day now, so I apologize that the links I put up today aren't working. We're having server issues and hopefully will be back up soon. In the meantime...here's a story about a different type of beatdown. UPDATE: Donklephant is back up! UPDATE: Back down again. *sigh* … [Read more...] about Donklephant Beatdown

A former student of mine at the University of Toronto, Hajera Khaja, writes a blog called Finding Neverland. She describes it as "[t]he nonsensical ramblings of a self-defined slightly crazy, slightly delusional Muslim". Maybe, maybe not. I'll let you decide. But if you want a break from the political arena that I tend to inhabit, if you want to explore the poetic possibilities … [Read more...] about Faith and love in Neverland

Yet more lies and damned lies at the Pentagon. Yes, democracy is messy, but does it need to be so blatantly phony? … [Read more...] about Lying to the people of Iraq

Isn't it truly a wonderful thing? Now we can get on with our lives... … [Read more...] about Dave and Oprah kiss and make up