The South Dakota anti-abortion law, via Oliver Willis:
South Dakota’s new anti-choice law says:

No person may knowingly administer to, prescribe for, or procure for, or sell to any pregnant woman any medicine, drug, or other substance with the specific intent of causing or abetting the termination of the life of an unborn human being. No person […]

Glenn Greenwald picks up on a new line of buck-passing for the Iraq War. Nowadays everyone seems to agree that the War is more of, how do you say?, oh yes: a clusterfuck. The problem for the people who advocated for the war and who have been dismissing problems for years is that […]

If looks like a civil war and it kills like a civil war, then it probably is a civil war. WaPo:
Grisly attacks and other sectarian violence unleashed by last week’s bombing of a Shiite Muslim shrine have killed more than 1,300 Iraqis, making the past few days the deadliest of the war outside of major […]

Bush approval at…*trumpets*…*drumroll*…

34%

Here. Here. Here. and HEEEEEEEEEEEEEERE!!

Josh Marshall:
I think even by the technical dictionary definition, that blows.

Booman gets going. Take a big breath and read this out loud as fast as you can–it’s liberating (I’ll greet you with flowers):
Listen up Bush. You haven’t liberated shit. You haven’t brought freedom anywhere. You brought garroting and suffocation and forced rape and waterboarding and kidnapping and beheading and truck bombs and amputees and […]

After initially posting on it Saturday, I’ve spent more time thinking about Ian Walsh’s call for progressives to protect and support progressivism in the Democratic Party. Something about his castigation of liberals who support conservative (more commonly known as moderate) Democrats wasn’t ringing true with me and I couldn’t quite place it. At face value […]

Via MyDD, Ian Walsh of Blogging of the President raises some very important questions about the role progressives should be placing themselves in the Democratic Party.
Here are a few simple questions:
Is Reid a Progressive?
Is he a Liberal?
Is he a Conservative?
I think, if you’re honest with yourself, you’ll have to admit that Reid is […]

The US supports democracy, freedom, capitalism, and free trade. Our at least, we say we do. Yet look at the government’s (read, not just Bush) policies as of late, and you wouldn’t think it.
The PLA elected a new government, good for them. They too can vote, and so far apathy hasn’t kicked in amongst their […]

Two stories jumped out at me this morning.
Saudi Arabia is defending its (our) oil from suicide bombers:
An explosion rocked Saudi Arabia’s huge Abqaiq oil facility in the east of the kingdom on Friday and an official said Saudi forces had thwarted suicide bomb attacks against the world’s biggest oil exporter.
Oil jumped more than $2 (1.14 […]

I saw this first in Krugman’s column and then via Whatever It Is, I’m Against it, but it was originally obtained by outragedmoderates.org.
This note, written by Department of Defense staffer Stephen Cambone on the afternoon of September 11th 2001, details Rumsfeld’s strategy to link Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein as culprits of the attacks. […]