Molly Ivins - Creators.com - Creators Syndicate: “The poor man who is currently our president has reached such a point of befuddlement that he thinks stem cell research is the same as taking human lives, but that 40,000 dead Iraqi civilians are progress toward democracy.”
You know, I’ve been reading Molly Ivins for years. I even [...]

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It’s Disproportionate. . .: “I felt better when I thought the Decider didn’t have a worldview, just a set of instincts about freedom and democracy. But even if you set aside the president’s embarrassing open-mike performance at the Group of Eight summit, which is hard to do, events of the past week show that this [...]

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I.R.S. to Cut Tax Auditors - New York Times: “The federal government is moving to eliminate the jobs of nearly half of the lawyers at the Internal Revenue Service who audit tax returns of some of the wealthiest Americans, specifically those who are subject to gift and estate taxes when they transfer parts of their [...]

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Bush’s Tactic of Refusing Laws Is Probed: “‘The President’s constitutional duty is to enforce laws he has signed into being unless and until they are held unconstitutional by the Supreme Court or a subordinate tribunal,’ panel members wrote. ‘The Constitution is not what the President says it is.’”
Just kinda gives flip-flops a new lease on [...]

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The People’s Business: “On Tuesday it (the House) took up the gay-marriage amendment. This was a meaningless exercise, except in terms of amassing political ammunition: The Senate had already defeated the amendment. Nonetheless, some members had no trouble explaining the value of the dead-end debate. ‘This is probably the best message we can give to [...]

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Daily Kos: What Did You Expect, America?: “If you put people in charge of running a project they are ideologically committed to proving a failure, it will fail. “
I would normally add something here, but I don’t think I can say it any better than SusanG so go read the whole thing

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OpinionJournal - Peggy Noonan: “I note here what is to me a mystery. It is that people with lower IQs somehow tend, in our age, to have a greater apprehension of the meaning of things and the reality of life, than do our high-IQ professionals, who often seem, in areas outside their immediate field, startlingly [...]

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