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A new technology that combines Google Maps and the casualty count from the Iraq War provides a unique perspective.

The Supreme Court ruled that Matthew Cooper could be held in contempt for not revealing his source(s), so Time throws in the towel.

16 America security contractors were detained by Marines at Camp Fallujah in Iraq. They say they were abused. The AP has the story.

This is good, right, what the House did today?
The U.S. House of Representatives approved a provision on Thursday designed to bar government agencies for one year from hiring journalists and public-relations firms to secretly tout policies as news. [Emphasis added.]
Wait a minute, this seems like a good idea. Why only one year?
Because the [...]

Holy cow! eBay…
“…is now nearly 10 years old, employs 9,000 workers, serves 135 million customers, and is currently looking at a year where 1.8 billion items offered for sale are expected to produce $4.2 billion in fees.”

And apparently CNBC is going to air a documentary about the company.
PopMatters: The eBay Effect: Inside a Worldwide [...]

Even with the prospect of a takeover bid of $18.5 billion from a Chinese state-controlled oil company..
Shareholders of oil and gas company Unocal Corp. will vote Aug. 10 on a proposed merger with Chevron Corp. valued at approximately $16.6 billion..
Associated Press: Unocal to vote on Chevron merger proposal
Hey, what’s $1.9 billion among friends? Is [...]

After months of partisan bickering over staffing issues there seems to be some movement within the House Ethics Committee..
In a statement, [Representative Alan] Mollohan [D-WV] said, “I am pleased to report that we reached an agreement in principle that the person ultimately hired as the committee’s chief counsel-staff director would be in charge of the [...]

Washington DC was again invaded by a small prop driven airplane tonight.
The President was valiantly relocated. Rudely interrupted in the throes of voting, Congress too was evacuated. Pedestrians on Pennsylvania Avenue were hurried along by anxious “agents.”
The onslaught lasted for an excruciating ten minutes before the “all-clear” was given.
This was [...]

James Chaney yearns for the GOP of old.

A fun little time waster

Karl Rove seems to be grooming Rudi Giuliani. But for what?

Ahhnuld isn’t too popular in California nowadays. But then again, who has been in the last ten years?

Some poli-bloggers are telling the FEC to leave blogs alone. Will they listen?

Every summer at some point I find a hornets’ nest under the eve on the porch, or under the lip of the deck or in the rafters of the shed.
Usually, the nest looks gray and decrepit and I don’t see any hornets buzzin’ around it. Is it an active nest? Will [...]

Donklephant contributor Montag wonders why their can’t be term limits on Supreme Court justices…

In order to keep one of their top reporters out of jail, Time, Inc. is thinking about outing the source of all this trouble.

Could a hotel be built in place of David Souter’s home? Chickens. Home. Roost.

Responding to John Danforth’s great post “Onward Moderate Christian Soldiers”, Cal Thomas says the church, not government, should legislate morality.

One politician has identified the middle of the road Democrats according to their likeness to a cartoon character. And it’s working!