Public debate is made increasingly muddy these days by the ever-increasing number of propaganda outlets funded by conservatives. Similarly, immediate claims of outrage over ordinary events and tactics, and hyperbolic comparisons to past outrages, tends to divert attention from the substance of what is said. Welcome to Vermont and the debate over the wisdom of its nuclear energy generator.

The Department of Defense is instituting a "global" ban on popular sites such as YouTube, MySpace, and others in order to reduce security risks and save bandwidth. Is this a good idea?

Radio shock jocks Opie and Anthony, in a controversy likely to test both the post-Don Imus radio landscape and the lack of government censorship of satellite radio, played along with a guest Wednesday who expressed his desire to physically abuse and have sex with Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice and First Lady Laura Bush.

Conrad Black, on trial in Chicago for fraud against the company he controlled, Hollinger International, is accused of bilking his own company out of many millions of dollars. From the court proceedings today, it appears that Lord Black has both a strong class awareness and a great fear that the jury may have the same awareness.

The Mental Health Advisory Team IV Brief (MHAT), the fourth review of mental health issues of the U.S. military in Iraq, was submitted by General James T. Conway, Commandant of the Marine Corps, on April 18.

The housing market weakness is hardly an isolated concern, especially in light of the general view that housing equity has supported a lot of the rising consumer debt in America.

An enduring belief of most Americans is that we have greater mobility than folks in other countries. It's the poor boy makes good, every kid can grow up to be president ideal. In June's edition of The Atlantic, Senior Editor Clive Crook calls that into question in his article, "Rags to Rags, Riches to Riches."

Conservatives love to vilify Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid for defeatism and cynicism for his comments about the Iraq war being unwinnable. But he's hardly alone in his assessment of the war.

President Bush, in the second veto of his six-year term, killed an Iraq spending bill that included timetables for troop withdrawal to begin in October of this year, setting up another showdown between the Bush administration and Congress. But what will the new bill look like?

The Kurdish population is spread across Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Syria, and all of those countries have long been nervous about the loyalties and intentions of their Kurdish population.

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