Cited as Symbol of Abu Ghraib, Man Admits He Is Not in Photo  —  In the summer of 2004, a group of former detainees of Abu Ghraib prison filed a lawsuit claiming that they had been the victims of the abuse captured in photographs that incited outrage around the world.

Saddam's Philippines Terror Connection  —  SADDAM HUSSEIN'S REGIME PROVIDED FINANCIAL support to Abu Sayyaf, the al Qaeda-linked jihadist group founded by Osama bin Laden's brother-in-law in the Philippines in the late 1990s, according to documents captured in postwar Iraq.

Looser Emission Rules Rejected  —  Court Says Changes By EPA Violated Clean Air Act  —  A federal appeals court blocked the Bush administration's four-year effort to loosen emission rules for aging coal-fired power plants, unanimously ruling yesterday that the changes violated the Clean Air Act …

Countdown: Warrantless physical searches  —  Countdown: Warrantless physical searches  —  It never stops with this administration.  Turley is up in arms over this one, calling it horrific-saying it removes the 4th amendment from the Constitution.  He also rips Congress for laying …

Pentagon hired contractor to advise on collecting information on churches, mosques, other U.S. sites - 3/17/2006 07:38 PM EST  —  WASHINGTON - A Pentagon intelligence agency that kept files on American anti-war activists hired one of the contractors who bribed former Rep. Randy "Duke" …

House GOP Leader Well Traveled  —  House Majority Leader John A. Boehner (Ohio), who rose to power in the wake of a congressional lobbying scandal, spent the equivalent of nearly six months on privately funded trips over the past six years, according to a new study by a nonpartisan research group.

How I Learned to Love the Wall  —  ON March 28, Israelis will elect a new prime minister to replace the ailing Ariel Sharon.  But I'd bet my last shekel that I'll continue to hear the phrase "Ariel Sharon's apartheid wall."  It's a phrase spoken — make that spewed — on almost every university campus …

U.S. Senate primary could be a plus  —  Ned Lamont, take a bow.  By challenging Joseph Lieberman for the Connecticut Democratic Party's nomination for U.S. senator, Mr. Lamont is encouraging a debate that his party and this state need to have.  —  This is not to suggest that Mr. Lamont …

Senate passes funeral-protest bill 58-1  —  Only Sen. Becky Lourey, mother of a fallen soldier, dissented.  The bill may go to a conference committee.  —  With a lone dissenting vote from Sen. Becky Lourey, the Senate approved restrictions Thursday on funeral protests such as one that marred …

Abramoff's sentencing delayed to further cooperation  —  Judge approves motion sought by federal investigators  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — A federal judge Friday delayed sentencing of Jack Abramoff, a move the prosecutors requested to further the former lobbyist's cooperation with their investigation.

Advance Workers for Bush Impersonated Reporters  —  The White House said yesterday that it will discipline two government employees who masqueraded as journalists this month while scouting locations for a presidential visit to the Gulf Coast.  —  A Mississippi couple whose home was destroyed …

Rep. Sabo to end his long career in Congress  —  The Minneapolis Democrat will retire one of the nation's safest seats for an incumbent, setting off a DFL scramble to replace him.  —  WASHINGTON - Rep. Martin Sabo, a lion of Minneapolis DFL politics for four decades, is expected to announce …

I seem to exist again.  It's been a long, strange trip.  On Tuesday, my blog disappeared completely and my dashboard page on Blogger showed that my blog did not exist.  It was Kafkaesque.  I didn't feel any different, but, apparently, my four years of blogging had vanished with just a few traces left in Google Cache.

Righting Our Human Rights Policy  —  I argued ten days ago, contra Ivo and with Steve Clemons, that we should not oppose the compromise proposal for a new Human Rights Council on the grounds a) that this was a case of the best (the Secretary General's original proposal for a new Human Rights Council …

A Walkout from Reality  —  You'd need a heart of stone not to root for the plucky, fresh-faced kids in Walkout, a new HBO film about Mexican-American teenagers who in 1968 organized classroom walkouts to protest conditions at their East Los Angeles high schools.