Cathie from Canada

Well, I think I have survived. On Friday morning, I woke up sick, sick, sick, with a persistent pain in my chest, spasms and impossible to k...

One Friedman Unit after another. Did someone say something about September being some sort of deadline for "progress" in Iraq? Wh...

From Atrios : A very frustrating thing over the past few years has been our elite leaders' failure to understand what was going on in I...

..by which I mean, the first time somebody said something that implied you were "old". Just heard from my daughter, who went to a ...

Stupidest sentence of the day, from ABC News : Just this week, the Food and Drug Administration approved the birth control pill Lybrel, for ...

No wonder US policy on Iran has seemed sort of schizoid lately. It is. And is anyone surprised that Cheney is behind the game-playing? Stev...

Finally, an explanation from the Democrats about the war funding bill that makes some sense. From John Murtha : . . . Some have suggested t...

Echidne reports on a recent speech by Newt Gingrich: "Basic fairness demands that religious beliefs deserve a chance to be heard,...

From the Faces of Grief blog: An Iraqi child looks through a shrapnel ridded glass shop window in Shiite district of Sadr City in Baghdad, ...

Bill Scher sums up the latest news that the Bush administration (ie Cheney and Elliot Abrams) are supporting, either directly or though Pri...

The zombies are coming! Let's walk a little faster! : Today comes the breathless news that bin Laden had enlisted al-Zarqawi in Iraq to...

The new American frontier is in Iraq. And we all thought Bush was just pretending to be a cowboy! Instead, it sounds like he is conquering t...

This has been another edition of what Digby said -- or, actually, eight things Digby said and two things Tristero said. Here's my favor...

Typical, isn't it. The Tories need a cheat sheet even to cheat! The Tory committee chairs can't figure out how to disrupt and paral...

Hmmm... what does the incompetent thuggery of Bush, Gonzales and Card remind me of?