A Split Emerges as Conservatives Discuss Darwin  —  Evolution has long generated bitter fights between the left and the right about whether God or science better explains the origins of life.  But now a dispute has cropped up within conservative circles, not over science, but over political ideology …

Late Late Nite FDL: The Smirk Stops Here  —  It took me a second to realize what was so weird about this picture of Paris Hilton leaving court today.  —  And then it hit me. … That irritating little self-satisfied smirk of hers is gone.  Wiped clean away with one bang of the gavel.

Banned From YouTube?  —  Conservatives Perceive YouTube Bias, Launch New Video-Sharing Site  —  In the new digital media age, damning political videos can have an immediate impact on campaign 2.0, thanks largely to the availability and immediacy of YouTube.

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For Queen and First Lady, Bush Will Try White Tie  —  How does George W. Bush, a towel-snapping Texan who puts his feet on the coffee table, drinks water straight from the bottle and was once caught on tape talking with food in his mouth prepare for a state dinner with the queen?

Iranian Walks Out Of Dinner With Condi  —  Claims Female Violinist Was Dressed Too Revealingly; Also Blames U.S. For Iraq Turmoil  —  (CBS/AP) Iran's foreign minister walked out of a dinner of diplomats where he was seated directly across from Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice …

France heads to right as political showman delivers final performance of campaign  —  Polls show Sarkozy moving further ahead as Royal clings to hope of late switch  —  Angelique Chrisafis in Montpellier  —  In a hangar in the south of France, a burst of violins and dramatic drum rolls marked …

Dozens of Heads Were Bowed  —  Let us pray.  —  Let us pray that, on next year's National Day of Prayer, there is better attendance at the "Bible Reading Marathon" on the West Front of the Capitol.  —  Organizers put out 600 folding chairs on the lawn — the spot where presidents are inaugurated …

Goodling Shed Tears Before Revelations About Firings (Update1)  —  A former U.S. Justice Department official and central figure in the firing of eight U.S. attorneys tearfully told a colleague two months ago her government career probably was over as the matter was about to erupt into a political storm …

The moment a teenage girl was stoned to death for loving the wrong boy  —  A 17-year-old girl has been stoned to death in Iraq because she loved a teenage boy of the wrong religion.  —  As a horrifying video of the stoning went out on the Internet, the British arm of Amnesty International condemned …

The Saturday Cartoons  —  I have not one, but two, excellent animations for you today... The first is by Nick Anderson of the Houston Chronicle, who's also president of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists and pokes fun at the Hillary Clinton-Barack Obama rivalry via a take-off on "New Sensation" by INXS.

Activists Want Chimp Declared a 'Person'  —  VIENNA, Austria (AP) - In some ways, Hiasl is like any other Viennese: He indulges a weakness for pastry, likes to paint and enjoys chilling out watching TV.  —  But he doesn't care for coffee, and he isn't actually a person—at least not yet.

Democrats' Momentum Is Stalling  —  Amid Iraq Debate, Priorities On Domestic Agenda Languish  —  In the heady opening weeks of the 110th Congress, the Democrats' domestic agenda appeared to be flying through the Capitol: Homeland security upgrades, a higher minimum wage and student loan interest rate cuts …

Obama and the Race Zombies  — by Dave  —  It really shouldn't be a surprise, I suppose, that Barack Obama's run for the presidency is bringing out innate racism of so many right-wingers these days.  After all, so many of them have had to suppress their Inner Theodore Bilbo for so many years now …

Never surrender!  Never enlist!  —  As the good Glenn has pointed out, the latest Potemkin blog built to create the illusion of support for the war is We Win, They Lose based upon Sun Tzu's The Art of War as interpretatively danced by Glenn Reynolds:

Man widowed after his goat 'wife' chokes to death  —  A Sudanese man who married a goat was in mourning today after his wife died when she swallowed a plastic bag.  —  Charles Tombe shot to fame last year when he tied the knot with Rose.  —  A court ordered him to marry the beast …

More Thoughts on the Debate  —  A morning after having watched the debate a second time — that's how much I love you people — I stand by my contention that McCain won.  I am even more firm in my conviction that not only did Rudy Giuliani lose, but he imploded.

Will Fred Thompson's racist role have political repercussions?  —  Ronald Reagan became president even though he worked with chimps in B movies.  —  Arnold Schwarzenegger played a murderous robot, and that didn't keep him from becoming governor.  —  So can "Law & Order" …