Rove Is Using Threat of Loss to Stir G.O.P.  —  WASHINGTON, May 5 — To anyone who doubts the stakes for the White House in this year's midterm Congressional elections, consider that Representative John Conyers Jr. of Michigan, the Democrat who would become chairman of the Judiciary Committee …

Knowing the Enemy  —  In "The Killing of Atwar Bahjat", Greyhawk points us to a graphic [warning: not for the week of stomach] Times UK account of the murder of Iraqi journalist Atwar Bahjat.  —  What one is left with, after reading the piece, is twofold, I think: first …

Don't let the left defeat Lieberman  —  The last thing the Democratic cause needs is martyrdom for the sanctimonious senator from Connecticut.  —  WATCHING the left wing of the Democratic Party trying to take down Joe Lieberman has been a deeply confusing experience for me.

Draft Hollywood  —  The nation needs more gung-ho, patriotic war movies that celebrate our fight against Islamo-fascists.  —  THERE HAS NEVER been an age without war, not ever.  Mass violence is a continual aspect of the human condition.  Peace, like good weather, is always local and temporary …

Mark Steyn: New coalition of willing needed in Darfur  —  Hollywood stars are naive to expect the UN to stop the bloodbath in Sudan  —  I SEE George Clooney and Angelina Jolie have discovered Darfur and are now demanding "action".  Good for them.  Hollywood hasn't shown this much interest …

Prominent Egyptian blogger arrested and several other activists  —  Alaa Abd El-Fatah, one of the Egyptian political activists, and one of the first bloggers in Egypt was arrested today together with around ten more activists during a peaceful demonstration in solidarity with sixty activists …

ARE THE EDITORS ON STRIKE AT THE WASHINGTON POST?  —  Last year, when John and I published a piece in the Washington Post's outlook secion, the Post's editor (to her credit) hounded us for details, evidence, and explanations to support our arguments and assertions.  Markos (Kos) Moulitsas must have had a different editor.

You know how to add, don't you?  —  A dark night, a mysterious dame and a gumshoe looking for clues in the case of the vanishing wages  —  I Was working late in my D.C. office.  I'd been running some new simulations on my macro-model, but nothing was converging, so I figured I'd close …

Senator Kerry tells students to 'speak out' to to make their issues the voting issues of nation  —  Senator John Kerry defended the right to dissent in a speech to Iowa college students, urging them to "speak out" to make their issues the voting issues of the nation, RAW STORY has found.

Jimmy Carter: Punishing the innocent is a crime  —  Jimmy Carter International Herald Tribune  —  Innocent Palestinian people are being treated like animals, with the presumption that they are guilty of some crime.  Because they voted for candidates who are members of Hamas …

It's Checks and Balances, Mr. Russert  —  It's not every day a Congressman from Detroit has his name mentioned on, not one, but two Sunday morning news shows.  —  First, on ABC's This Week, I was taken to task by none other than the soon-to-be-ex-Congressman Tom DeLay.

Cardinal urges legal action against Da Vinci Code  —  VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - In the latest Vatican broadside against "The Da Vinci Code", a leading cardinal says Christians should respond to the book and film with legal action because both offend Christ and the Church he founded.