Al-Zarqawi on the cover of Time Magazine tells a story about the future of tyranny.

Polling shows that the war in Iraq is the single most important issue to voters as we move towards the November midterm elections. The latest NBC/WSJ poll clearly points out the importance Iraq holds as Democrats attempt to craft a meaningful message that will convince voters to give the Democrats control of the House or [...]

The Senate is one vote away from passing a Constitutional amendment outlawing desecration of the flag.
I’m appalled. I didn’t much care about this when it stood little chance of passing, considering it yet another wedge issue designed to distract us from actual important things. But this thing might actually pass when it comes to a [...]

Look over at the far righthand sidebar. Notice anything different? I now have a header that says “byoms Feed.” Yes, I’ve decided to provide everybody with a demonstration of the technology that my company developed to search for information through IM.
Using it is easy. If you have an AOL IM client, click the button and [...]

Looks like Hillary Clinton might have some trouble with the left-wing of her party. In a speech yesterday before the annual conference of the liberal group Campaign for America’s Future, Clinton was jeered and booed for suggesting that immediate withdrawal from Iraq is not the wisest course of action. She went out of her way [...]

I’m sure most of you had already guessed that things were like this, but just in case you need a reminder…
The Unity08 poll, conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates, found that 82 percent of U.S. adults agree that “America has become so polarized between Democrats and Republicans that Washington can’t seem to make progress solving [...]

It’s time to put FEMA out of its misery.
“But why?” you ask.
Read this.

A Republican heavy weighs in on Karl Rove’s non-indictment:
“The other team thought they’d sacked the quarterback, and even if he came back he’d limp anyway,” said Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform and a Rove confidant, who had lunch with him yesterday. “Now he’s back — no limp.”
What they don’t get — “they” [...]

At last, some refreshing pragmatism. Even Kerry and Schumer recognize that only decorated Vietnam vet, author, and former Republican James Webb has a chance to beat George Allen for the Senate in November.
Webb, whose military cred is unimpeachable — he was Ronald Reagan’s Secretary of the Navy — has consistently opposed the [...]

Well, well, well…looks like Jason Leopold and his gang over at Truthout have some ’splaining to do.
If you don’t know what I’m talking about, Leopold reported on the aforementioned left-wing site that Rove’s indictment was imminent. As we’ve seen from today’s developments, it was not. Now comes the hard part for Truthout…what to do? Will [...]

In the wake of Yearly Kos, John Dickerson at Slate poses a good, wicked question: will bloggers continue to keep the mainstream media honest when its latest hype and lie is a mad infatuation with bloggers? Will bloggers puncture the hype when they are its beneficiaries? Not likely, but it’ll make their [...]

Karl is in the clear — another reversal of misfortune for the Bush White House, and another warning sign to the Democrats that their gloating anticipation of a November Congressional victory has been extremely premature.

Even the big guys are saying it now — Kurt Andersen, Tom Friedman, CBS’s Dick Meyer, Peggy Noonan — but check out this comment from a little guy at The Moderate Voice who says it as well as anyone [all spelling is 'sic']:
It seems like all the radicals on the faaaaaaaaaaaaar right and faaaaaaaaaaaaaar left [...]

After four years of being jailed without charge, and multiple attempts by various prisoners, three inmates at Gitmo finally succeeded in hanging themselves over the weekend.
That might be controversial enough; I’ll get into the basic implications of the deaths a little later. But the U.S. stoked the flames of world outrage by dismissing the suicides [...]

Okay, not exactly. But two Dem strategists lay out a very compelling argument why the nominee in 2008 should be like Bill. Well, all except for those personal pecadilloes…
From Wash Post:
By any logical standard, Democrats of every stripe ought to be embracing Clintonism and its central tenets — providing people with more opportunity while demanding [...]

I wondered what Rep. John Murtha’s motivation could possibly be for taking such an aggressive antiwar stance. Now I know, thanks to The Moderate Voice — he plans to run for Majority Leader (the No. 2 position) if the Dems take back the House.
Which probably just made it a little bit likelier that they [...]

This will probably stay up for a day or so, unless another Donklephant blogger pushes it down. I’m taking a day off tomorrow, and not even thinking about blogging.
Say things!!!

Michael Reynolds has a must read post about Daily Kos and what it really means in the grand scheme of things.
I am a netroots skeptic. I don’t think politics has moved to the web. I think there is a disconnect between web-world and real-world. Remember “meet ups?” Go to MeetUp.com, scroll through the political stuff. [...]

“You want to be careful not to become just a blowhard.”
- Ann Coulter to The Washington Post on 10/16/98.

Dennis Sanders is right. Gay marriage is an important issue, and after watching clips of Bill Bennett trying to explain his views about gay marriage on The Daily Show, I can’t help but feel that this issue is essential to our nation moving in a positive direction.
Why? Very simple. Bennett’s arguments just don’t hold water. [...]