President Bush Pleased with Attorney General's Testimony  —  President Bush was pleased with the Attorney General's testimony today.  After hours of testimony in which he answered all of the Senators' questions and provided thousands of pages of documents, he again showed that nothing improper occurred.

Miscarriage of Justice  —  The federal "partial-birth" abortion ban has grave implications for all pregnant women, not only those seeking to end pregnancies.  —  Yesterday the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the first federal law that bans an abortion procedure for all women and all doctors in all states.

Alec Baldwin's Threatening Message to Daughter  —  An enraged Alec Baldwin unleashed a volcanic tirade of threats and insults on his 11-year-old daughter, Ireland, calling her a "thoughtless little pig," and bashing her mother Kim Basinger — and TMZ has obtained the whole thing unfiltered and raw.

I'm Signing On  —  I really thought that the 2004 presidential campaign would be the last I would be involved in.  I have always wanted to make a difference, but for me I thought those days were over.  —  A few weeks ago, John and Elizabeth Edwards made their decision to continue …

S.223  —  Blog articles for S.223  —  S.223: A bill to require Senate candidates to file designations, statements, and reports in electronic form.  —  APRIL 20, 2007  —  S.223  —  S.223 A bill to require Senate candidates to file designations, statements, and reports in electronic form. introduced Jan. 09, 2007 293 views

'Accommodations' could open door to more demands  —  Last week, I wrote about Minneapolis Community and Technical College's proposal to install ritual washing facilities to facilitate Muslim prayer.  Is this a tempest in a teapot, as some have suggested?  —  Canada, our neighbor to the north …

Training Iraqi troops no longer driving force in U.S. policy  —  WASHINGTON - Military planners have abandoned the idea that standing up Iraqi troops will enable American soldiers to start coming home soon and now believe that U.S. troops will have to defeat the insurgents and secure control of troubled provinces.

Rick Perlstein's blog  —  Last year I attended a major conference of conservative intellectuals and activists at Princeton University as the token liberal.  There I heard Richard Land of the Southern Baptist Convention say that the Democratic Party ostracizes all pro-life Democrats.

Iraq war is 'lost': US Democrat leader  —  The war in Iraq "is lost" and a US troop surge is failing to bring peace to the country, the leader of the Democratic majority in the US Congress, Harry Reid, said Thursday.  —  "I believe ... that this war is lost, and this surge is not accomplishing anything …

'That Was the Desk I Chose to Die Under'  —  The roommates crossed paths near the bathroom door at 5 in the morning.  In the Monday darkness, another school week at Virginia Tech was about to begin.  Karan Grewal had pulled an all-nighter to finish his accounting paper.

NBC News  —  NBC News issued the following statement Thursday in regard to the materials it received from the gunman in the Virginia Tech shootings:  —  The pain suffered by the Virginia Tech community and indeed the entire country is immeasurable.  —  Upon receiving the materials from Cho Seung-Hui …

Ruling Congress, Dems Rolling in Special Interest Cash  —  Avni Patel Reports:  —  The campaign coffers of the new Democratic House committee chairmen have seen a big jump in contributions from lobbyists and special interests since the Democratic takeover of Congress, according …

Why Is God Hiding?  —  My fellow blogger Cenk Uygur wants to know where was God when Cho went on that rampage.  Yes, that's right.  It was Cho's rampage.  So I don't thnk God gets the blame.  Uygur wants to implicate God indirectly.  Surely God could have stopped it, right?  Then why didn't he?