It sounds too good to be true. But everything I can find says this could be legitimate.
A molecule used for decades to combat metabolic diseases in children, may soon be available as an effective treatment for many forms of cancer, University of Alberta researchers are reporting.
In results that “astounded� school scientists, the molecule, known as [...]

Republican war supporters have given Bush their own deadline to show progress in Iraq — six to nine months.
Several leading Senate Republicans who support President Bush’s troop-boosting plan for Iraq say they will give the administration and the Iraqis about six months to show significant improvement.
“I don’t think this war can be sustained for more [...]

The following YouTube vid is just one segment from the upcoming film Friends of God: A Road Trip with Alexandra Pelosi, and it certainly makes me think of Jesus Camp.

Much of this won’t come as a surprise to many of you, but I think it’s a good demonstration of what our children are being taught, [...]

More bad news about the online surveillance methods used to nab terrorists, but are ultimately more likely to collect information on you, your friends and what you like to surf for online.
From CNET:
Instead of recording only what a particular suspect is doing, agents conducting investigations appear to be assembling the activities of thousands of Internet [...]

Jobs must be pissed.
Apple sued a couple bloggers for leaking some inside info and demanded they reveal their sources. The courts said no, and told Apple to not only pay the blogger’s legal fees…but more than double them…
Wow…
Apple Inc., had issued subpoenas to online tech journalists, including the publisher of AppleInsider.com and PowerPage.org, over reports [...]

Looks like Dem Senators know they don’t have enough votes and are going to work with the Repubs…maybe…
From the NY Times:
WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 � The Senate is expected to clear the way on Tuesday for an increase in the minimum wage that Democrats and some Republicans agree is overdue.
But the Senate’s approval may not mean [...]

The writing is on the wall for the Republican presidential hopefuls, and it isn’t good. McCain, Romney and Giuliani aren’t very popular with social conservatives, and since they’ve been an essential part of the GOP’s strategy since Nixon, conservative pundits are getting anxious about the current crop.
From Politico:
McCain is courting social and economic conservatives this [...]

Rep. Tom Tancredo is a partisan buffoon. But even a blind squirrel finds a nut sometimes, and his latest hobby horse manages to hit a target worth skewering — even if it’s not exactly the target he was aiming at.
Tancredo, a Republican from Colorado and an outspoken opponent of diversity who has called Miami a [...]

It looks like the list of 2008 Presidential wannabees is getting longer.
The Washington Post reports today that Nebraska Republican Senator Chuck Hagel is mulling plans to form a presidential exploratory committee.
Even though his stock among the GOP base is pretty low, he is thinking of running for the GOP nomination, running for a [...]

Lessons can be drawn from Hama, Syria.

That’s what one gas station in Omaha is saying they’ll offer. Certainly a novel idea, but could it go nationwide?
From newsnet5.com:
KETV in Omaha reports that a gas station is about to open near 129th and Q streets named Terror Free Oil, and the idea is to offer consumers petroleum products from countries that do not [...]

Taking a look around the infosphere…we’ve got a lot of people saying a lot of different things about Iraq.
The most surprising comes from Charles Schumer, who says that Iraq will not be the focus of the 2008 elections…
In place of promises for a new tone in Washington or a focus on such issues as climate [...]

The minimum wage bill saw a lot of action in the Senate but few actual results.
As promised, Harry Reid let the Republicans propose a line-item veto amendment on the bill. That was rejected 49-48, but could come back up again because that vote was far less than the 60 needed to invoke cloture and cut [...]

Thank God. And I say that as someone who voted for the doofus in 2004. In my defense, I would have voted for a trained pig if the alternative was another four years of Bush. My vote was a vote against Bush rather than a vote for Kerry.
Anyway, this isn’t a big surprise; nobody wants [...]

Well, CNN debunks it, and they do it the way news organizations should do it…by visiting the school he went to and doing some very basic fact checking.
Do note that many on the right, including some Fox News commentators, blamed Hillary for this smear. And while I can’t prove that she didn’t…I can point to [...]

Sure, this second resolution isn’t much more than the symbolic gesture the Dem’s resolution represented, but I like the fact that Warner is offering up one that’s less partisan and that more Republicans can get behind.
From NY Times:
WASHINGTON, Jan. 22 — Three senators offered a new resolution today against President Bush’s Iraq policy, in which [...]

What? Since when?
Jan. 20, 2006 � Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., has announced that she is forming an exploratory committee for president, thereby launching a bid to become the first female chief executive of the United States.
“I’m in,” she said on a Web site, hillaryclinton.com. “And I’m in to win.
“As a senator, I will spend two [...]

Rule by decree?
From the BBC:
Venezuela’s National Assembly has given initial approval to a bill granting the president the power to bypass congress and rule by decree for 18 months.
President Hugo Chavez says he wants “revolutionary laws” to enact sweeping political, economic and social changes.
He has said he wants to nationalise key sectors of the economy [...]

Well, I’m glad you asked…

Republicans halted ethics legislation yesterday, because they want a line item veto in the mix. However, as John Cole points out, since the line item veto was deemed unconstitutional, they’ve had 6 years to come up with some type of workaround but, as of yet, haven’t…
There was no mention of the [...]

The House passed the legislation, and now it’s going to the Senate.
The details…
The House rolled back billions of dollars in oil industry subsidies Thursday in what supporters hailed as a new direction in energy policy toward more renewable fuels. Critics said the action would reduce domestic oil production and increase reliance on imports. [...]
The legislation [...]