Lawyer: No DNA Match in Duke Gang Rape Case  —  DURHAM, N.C. — DNA testing failed to connect any members of the Duke University lacrosse team to the alleged rape of a stripper, attorneys for the athletes said Monday.  —  Citing DNA test results delivered by the state crime lab to police …

Centre-left claims Italy victory  —  Italy's centre-left opposition has won a narrow victory in the lower house of parliament, official results say.  —  It won 49.8% of the vote against 49.7% for the centre-right, according to interior ministry figures.  —  The head of the centre-left coalition …

France Surrenders!  —  It was only a matter of time...  The kids did not care for the new plan...  It had to go.  They were forced to take their fight to the streets.  (France-Echos)  —  After putting up a brave fight, France surrendered today to the young socialist thugs on the street.

Wowie Zahawie  —  Sorry everyone, but Iraq did go uranium shopping in Niger.  —  In the late 1980s, the Iraqi representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency—Iraq's senior public envoy for nuclear matters, in effect—was a man named Wissam al-Zahawie.

Phone-Jamming Records Point to White House  —  WASHINGTON - Key figures in a phone-jamming scheme designed to keep New Hampshire Democrats from voting in 2002 had regular contact with the White House and Republican Party as the plan was unfolding, phone records introduced in criminal court show.

Immigration Advocates Rally Across U.S.  —  Crowds of immigrants and their supporters predicted to total in the hundreds of thousands marched today in more than 100 cities throughout the country, casting off the old fears of their illegal status to assert that they have a right to a humane life in this country.

Dallas Protest AAR: No pics, I'm afraid, since the prostestors smashed my camera.  —  I decided last night to sleep on it before writing this.  If I had written about yesterday last night, my post would have been filled with epithets and not very coherent.  —  My camera is now scattered bits …

Immigration on the Brain  —  I was on a blogger conference call with Rep. Jack Kingston of Savannah, Ga. today.  Most everybody wanted to talk about immigration, so I wrote that up first, it being the hot topic and all.  —  Here are some excerpts from Kingston's intro on immigration:

BOMBING IRAN....I think a number of people are missing the point about the latest spate of articles suggesting that George Bush has plans for an air strike against Iran.  The United States military has contingency plans for everything, they say, so it's hardly a surprise that the military has contingency plans for Iran.

Bush and Cheney Discussed Plame Prior to Leak  —  In early June 2003, Vice President Dick Cheney met with President Bush and told him that CIA officer Valerie Plame Wilson was the wife of Iraq war critic Joseph Wilson and that she was responsible for sending him on a fact-finding mission …

Bush's Job Approval Rating Continues to Swoon  —  Forty-Seven Percent of Americans 'Strongly' Disapprove of Handling of the Presidency  —  Political reversals at home and continued bad news from Iraq have dragged President Bush's standing with the public to a new low and boosted Democratic chances …

Christians Sue for Right to be Assholes  —  This is priceless.  Whatever happened to the "activist judges" rhetoric?  I guess you've got to hope for a "judiciary run amok" when you're suing for your right to be a f**king asshole. … The right to be Christian—I love it.