Undercover Blue

it means just what we choose it to mean, neither more nor less." From this morning's WaPo : Iraq has failed to meet all but three o...

. . . seen last night on a church billboard in Greenville, SC, the epicenter of church marquee wisdom. Amen.

. . . where everything's made up and the facts don't matter. Responding to President Bush's latest rewrite of history, Mahablog...

In today's L.A. Times Newt Gingrich challenges presidential candidates of both major parties to new "Lincoln-Douglas" style d...

The good doctor is bringing Glenn Greenwald to town: Glenn Greenwald coming to Asheville Posted by: ecthompson Glenn Greenwald The Errington...

Weekends are when I normally get in some more lengthy, thought-out pieces. Right now, however, I'm trying to get a non-blogging politica...

Trying to get at the truth in the domestic surveillance lawsuits is tough when anything you say can or even remember may be declared a state...

Will someone please get the government off Chinese manufacturers' back? The Los Angeles Times explains the recent trend : First it was t...

Just watched Markos (Daily Kos) on Meet the Press with former Congressman Harold Ford, Jr. (D-TN), Chairman of the Democratic Leadership Cou...

"In any game where the rules have been abandoned, those with the fewest scruples win." -- Daniel Brook, "The Trap" Broo...

The New Yorker 's Jane Mayer is back with lengthy piece on the CIA's " black sites " and procedures used in "extraor...

This morning's New York Times editorial says it all: It was appalling to watch over the last few days as Congress — now led by Democrat...

Today's WaPo: The Pentagon has lost track of about 190,000 AK-47 assault rifles and pistols given to Iraqi security forces in 2004 and...

[ updated below ] Slate's Today's Papers provides the good news on House Democrats' caving to the Bush administration's de...

The president demands Congress remain in session to pass an update to the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) so his legal w...

That's why they're pushing so hard for legislation that says so : A federal intelligence court judge earlier this year secretly decl...

BAGHDAD — Iraq's main Sunni Arab political bloc withdrew from the government Wednesday, blaming Shiite Muslim leaders for not addressin...

CNN - At least three people were killed when an interstate bridge in Minneapolis, Minnesota, collapsed Wednesday evening, plunging cars and...

Ethics bill passes overwhelmingly in the U.S. House. It's imperfect, but it's a start. The New York Times reports : The new lobbyin...

More information trickling out in the New York Times about the NSA domestic spying program that isn't “ the program the president has co...