Many have promised it, but Aubrey de Grey just might be able to deliver.
The Man Who Would Murder Death.

The bulldog reporter says he has documents that prove the Scotsman’s guilt.

70 blogs from all across the political spectrum signed up for the November 7th launch.
Will it fly or flop?
Wired has more.
“It will be the best of mainstream media and best of blog media, side by side, sometimes fighting, sometimes agreeing,” said Roger Simon, a novelist and blogger who co-founded Pajamas Media.
The site aims to be [...]

Apparently it’s both, and that has some people whispering “insider trading.”
From the New Yorker:
Last year, Alan Ziobrowski, a professor at Georgia State, headed the first-ever systematic study of politicians as investors. Ziobrowski and his colleagues looked at six thousand stock transactions made by senators between 1993 and 1998. Over that time, senators beat the market, [...]

Barbara Boxer’s new Beltway novel is out, and it explains why some of us become conservatives and some of us become liberals.

In fact, the book could almost be read as a primer on a certain pessimistic view held by some coastal Democrats, who see a far-off middle America as a conservative backwater � one that [...]

Tune in. Here’s the info.
Listeners from across the globe can listen to the program by going to http://www.LVROCKS.com at 7 PM PT,9 PM CT and 10 PM ET and click on LISTEN and click on CAM/CHAT.
I’ll be on at 10PM CT for about 30 minutes.

Israel is a “disgraceful blot” that should be “wiped off the map”
You know, Iran’s leadership is sure softing up in its view on Israeli relations …
Prudence would suggest these comments be taken seriously and a proper response be made ideally by the international community.
“I think it reconfirms what we have been saying about the [...]

Yes, the Plame case reports keep coming in fast and furious.
Does a media frenzy that is in a continual state of frenzy eventually turn itself into a black hole?
Officials described a White House on edge. “Everybody just wants this week over,” said one official.
The key figures in the probe, including Rove [...]

“Iraq Has Network of Outside Help on Arms, Experts Say,” “Iraq Suspected of Secret Germ War Effort,” “Flight Tests Show Iraq Has Resumed a Missile Program,” “Iraqi Work Toward A-Bomb Reported.”
Iraq will be “capable within months — and possibly just weeks or days — of threatening its neighbors with an arsenal of chemical, biological and [...]

You probably already know about 2000 & 53. Certainly not heartening numbers, but they’re expected.
And because of those numbers, we arrive at 55. Fuzzy math? Hardly. This has been coming for a while.
However, can you figure out what 6,200 stands for?
Read about it and tell me what you think.
Personally, I’m outraged.

McCain’s amendment passed. Dick Cheney apparently wasn’t pleased.
That’s why Cheney is floating a “modest” proposal:
The Bush administration has proposed exempting employees of the Central Intelligence Agency from a legislative measure endorsed earlier this month by 90 members of the Senate that would bar cruel and degrading treatment of any prisoners in U.S. custody.
The proposal, which [...]

Here we go people. Get ready for the circus to come to town.
From The Washington Note:
An uber-insider source has just reported the following to TWN (since confirmed by another independent source):
1. 1-5 indictments are being issued. The source feels that it will be towards the higher end.
2. The targets of indictment have already received their [...]

Heh.

One more step forward has presumbly been made in the process of establishing a constitutional government in Iraq.
A majority of voters approved the constitution in the nationwide referendum held on Oct. 15, the officials said. But the vote was sharply divided along ethnic and sectarian lines. The biggest support came from Shiites and [...]

Based upon this brief comparative analysis using the LEO model, the best way to describe Mr. Bush’s radio address on October 8th is “damage control.�

In all the fervor to catch, create, or at the very least imply Bush administration transgressions, let’s not lose sight of the role of the special prosecutor.
Rampant leaks notwithstanding, no one but Patrick Fitzgerald knows all of the criminal evidence the special prosecutor is considering against senior White House officials. Our hope [...]

I didn’t realize that pharmacists can refuse to give women the morning after pill if it’s against their personal beliefs.
Apparently, neither did young Tucson woman who was raped. She spent three days searching for the pill, and finally found it, but the person on duty wouldn’t dispense it because of their religious beliefs.
From the Arizona [...]

Wow. This could be a lot bigger than we all thought.
Libby’s meeting notes essentially tell the story that Cheney told him that Plame was a C.I.A. agent. However, Libby has never told the prosecutors anything about this. That’s probably why he’s facing perjury charges.
From NY Times:
WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 � I. Lewis Libby Jr., Vice [...]

Or rather, she’s going to tie herself to it.
From Reuters:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Cindy Sheehan, the military mother who made her son’s death in Iraq a rallying point for the anti-war movement, plans to tie herself to the White House fence to protest the milestone of 2,000 U.S. military deaths in Iraq.
“I’m going to go [...]

She refused to get up. Ironically, that prompted an entire generation to get up and fight for her right to stay put.
You’ll be missed Mrs. Parks.
Godspeed.
(HT: DFP)