Brownback Knocks Down Lieberman Claim That Iraq Resolutions 'Encourage The Enemy'  —  This morning on Fox News, Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) echoed the Bush administration and claimed that people who oppose escalation in Iraq are emboldening terrorists.  "[I]t will discourage our troops …

Muslims urged to refuse 'un-Islamic' vaccinations  —  A leading Islamic doctor is urging British Muslims not to vaccinate their children against diseases such as measles, mumps, and rubella because they contain substances making them unlawful for Muslims to take.

Fonda Reprises A Famous Role At Peace Rally  —  The Actress Speaks Out Against the War in Iraq  —  For her next act, Jane Fonda has entered the war against the Iraq war.  At the tail-end of yesterday's on-the-Mall rally, organized by United for Peace and Justice, Fonda stood onstage …

Jeb Bush Rallies Conservatives at Summit  —  Non-Candidate Shows Ability to Excite the Party  —  At a time when the conservative movement is looking bereft, humbled by midterm-election defeats and hungering for a presidential candidate to rally around, Jeb Bush delivered yesterday in Washington …

A Reluctant Rebel's Yell  —  From Vietnam to Capitol Hill, Chuck Hagel has never been afraid to fight.  Now he talks about what could be his biggest battle yet: a run for the White House.  —  Chuck Hagel wears pain on his face.  The senior senator from Nebraska earned two Purple Hearts in Vietnam …

Death squad chieftains flee to beat Baghdad surge  —  Hala Jaber, Amman and Sarah Baxter, Washington  —  DEATH SQUAD leaders have fled Baghdad to evade capture or killing by American and Iraqi forces before the start of the troop "surge" and security crackdown in the capital.

5 Myths About Suburbia and Our Car-Happy Culture  —  They don't rate up there with cancer and al-Qaeda — at least not yet — but suburban sprawl and automobiles are rapidly acquiring a reputation as scourges of modern American society.  Sprawl, goes the typical indictment, devours open space …

Grand Delusion  —  It's quite a juxtaposition.  In Iraq, American soldiers are finally beginning the hard job of establishing a measure of peace, security and order in critical sections of Baghdad — the essential prerequisite for the lasting political solution everyone claims to want.

Myths of the Iraq War  —  January 28, 2007: Top 10 Myths of the Iraq War.  In no particular order.  There are more, but ten is a manageable number.  —  1-No Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD).  Several hundred chemical weapons were found, and Saddam had all his WMD scientists and technicians ready.

Iraqi Soldiers Clash With Insurgents  —  Iraqi soldiers supported by U.S. helicopters on Sunday clashed with a gathering of insurgents hiding out amid date palm orchards near the southern holy city of Najaf, according to Iraqi officials.  —  For the past several weeks, Sunni insurgents …

Ginsburg Decries Sexism By Being Sexist  —  The Washington Post has a short report on a speech given by Ruth Bader Ginsburg at Suffolk's law school in which she complained about her isolation as the Supreme Court's only woman.  She then told the students that men lack the sensitivity than women bring to the bench (via Memeorandum):

Evidence From Bite Marks, It Turns Out, Is Not So Elementary  —  FIFTEEN years ago, Roy Brown, a hard-drinking man with a criminal record, was convicted of stabbing, beating, biting and strangling a social worker in upstate New York.  The case rested largely on one piece of forensic evidence …

A deal in the desert for Sen. Reid?  —  A bill he wrote could have affected the friend who sold the land.  —  BULLHEAD CITY, ARIZ. — It's hard to buy undeveloped land in booming northern Arizona for $166 an acre.  But now-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid effectively did just that when a …

Accurate, but Not the Whole Story  —  Accurate stories can be misleading.  Two recent Page 1 stories — one on the Fairfax County libraries and the other on the sale of Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards's Georgetown house — brought complaints that there was less there than met the reader's eye.

RICKIE LEE JONES- Sermon on Exposition Blvd.  —  (Please welcome Rickie Lee Jones and Howie Klein who join us in the comments section today — JH)  —  Rickie Lee Jones has been a great friend to Blue America and a committed lifelong political activist.  Along with Tom Maxwell and Ken Mosher …