We're addicted to partisanship, and afraid to break the cycle. Why?

On Tuesday, the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) reported its analysis of the drinking water system in some of the military housing areas on Camp Lejeune, North Carolina: people living in those areas have been exposed to high levels of tetrachloroethylene from 1957 through 1987.

The results of a recent Gallup Poll reinforce the idea that the Republican Party is rapidly becoming the anti-science party by virtue of becoming the God Party.

Conservatives in the government and media are still up in arms about Scooter Libby's sentence for deceiving the Special Prosecutor.

The DOJ stonewalling on the US Attorney firings and/or the use of the DOJ to affect election results (it's unclear whether those are separate issues or two strands of the same issue) seems to be starting to unravel as more and more DOJ officials testify and contradict each other and claim approval by other DOJ officials. Yesterday, Bradley Schlozman, former interim US Attorney in Missouri, as well as the former head of the Justice Department's civil rights division, testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

The debate over sex education in the schools is, like most issues in 21st century America, more like a battle than a debate. The April, 2007 publication of a congressionally-funded study of abstinence programs has set off another flurry of skirmishes, leading one newspaper editorial writer to call Henry Waxman, the Democratic congressman from California who is the Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, "abstinence-phobic."

Arkansas GOP party chair Dennis Milligan says we need more attacks on US soil to "wake us up" to the good job Bush has done. Isn't this a little dichotomous?

According to the Monthly reports from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the US economy gained a net of almost half a million jobs in the third quarter of 2006. Then BLS issued its aggregate quarterly report earlier this month, titled "BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT DYNAMICS: THIRD QUARTER 2006."

More than 10 years ago a cell phone conversation between Congressman John Boehner (R-OH), the current House Minority Leader, and Newt Gingrich, along with various other GOP types, was released to the media. It showed Gingrich planning a public relations campaign to spin the recent House Ethics Committee decision to fine Gingrich $300,000. This month, the federal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia decided that Congressman Jim McDermott (D-WA) could be held liable to Boehner for invading his privacy by releasing that tape to the media, even though the contents were true and McDermott was not the one who had recorded Boehner's call.

Truthout and other sites are reporting that the official publication of the Robins Air Force Base describes an event called "Salute To The Troops, Memorial Day Celebration" as being "an official US Air Force 60th Anniversary event."

Anniversary event."

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