The novelist Andrew Klavan has written a rant titled "The Big White Lie" that celebrates himself for being a conservative. I hate self-congratulatory stuff like this, whether it's coming from the right or the left, because it reduces politics to a sports rivalry in which your team rox and the other team sux.

Add Congressional staffer Mark Zachares to the list of casualties of the Abramoff investigation.

In his April 19th radio show, Rush Limbaugh referred to the ideology of the Virginia Tech shooter as liberal, and then acknowledged he would be attacked for it.

I opened up the parenting magazine that we've been getting for free since the birth of our latest daughter and I came across this ad from Big Beef telling me that the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada wants me to eat red meat. Why does the Heart and Stroke Foundation think so much of red meat that they've given it a Health Check, their symbol meant to indicate a "good for your health" type option?

The similarities between 21st century America and 19th century America are numerous and, for most of us, frightening. The 19th century is not a time that I want to revisit. It's not a coincidence that the 19th century gave rise to the first modern "labor rights" struggles, given the unsafe conditions, inadequate pay, unlimited hours, and government weighing in on the side of employers.

Did you catch the odd definition that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales offered up for the concept of "limited involvement" with the firings of U.S. Attorneys in his appearance before the Senate Committee Thursday?

Anti-abortion forces have been after the abortifacient drug RU-486 (Mifepristone) since it won FDA approval. Now an anti-abortion web site reports that Republican Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma plans to submit an amendment to an FDA-related bill that would provide for suspending "the availability of any drug approved under FDA's subpart H category that has resulted in more deaths than lives saved."

Although you hear a lot of recent talk about how worker earnings are "beginning to catch up" with corporate profits, it's hard to find any real evidence of real progress in real earnings. It also ignores the fact that corporate profits themselves seem to have stalled.

For reasons that I consider obvious, there seems to be renewed medical interest in exploring the effect that poverty has on the health of the poor.

Smarmy insult slinger Don Imus is out at MSNBC and CBS Radio. The straw that broke the camel's back -- tossing a combined racial and sexual insult at a group of young women, many of them still teenagers, who had just completed a Cinderella season -- has been well covered, as has Imus' long history of saying things equally nasty.

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