Because nothing in America is non-political these days, I'm betting that the collapse of the bridge in Minnesota will spark a really nasty political fight, and will do it sooner than later.

A few quotes from recent days and a few from the glory days of Fascism, on some of the religious right's favorite subjects:

According to the blog Iraq Slogger, a recent report from the Iraqi Red Cresent calls the displacement of Iraqis within the country a "Human Tragedy Unprecedented in Iraq's History."

David Brooks is one of the few people in the world who has the New York Times editorial page for a platform. Why he has it is anybody's guess, but it probably isn't because of his economic acumen, honesty or openness, judging from his latest column A Reality-Based Economy.

White House spokesman Tony Snow had a doozy of a news conference Wednesday, mainly about the House Judiciary Committee's vote to refer contempt charges against Harriet Miers and Josh Bolten.

An FEC complaint filed Monday by conservative blogger John Bambenek claims that the liberal web site Daily Kos functions as a political action committee and should be subject to disclosure laws and other regulation of its activities.

For an administration that came to power mocking President Clinton's "depends on what the meaning of 'is' is," semantics, the Bush II White House has been an absolute joke. The latest punch lines were delivered by, once again, Tony Snow in a recent press conference, and by the President's Counsel, the one and only Fred Fielding.

Testimony in the murder trial of Marine Cpl. Trent D. Thomas at Camp Pendleton provides a very grim and vicious view of how U.S. Marines are conducting their anti-insurgency activities in Iraq. If true, you can pretty much bet that we won't ever be "winning the hearts and minds" of the Iraqis whose hearts and heads we are cavalierly beating and shooting.

The liberal blog Political Fretwork noticed something funny about President Bush's press conference yesterday that has escaped the attention of the media: The president called the insurgents in Iraq his constituents.

Unless you really follow the field of education religiously, you probably missed last month's proud announcement that the federal Education Department had awarded over a quarter of a billion dollars to ten states to "help create new charter schools and increase the school choices that parents have to provide to their children."

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