One of the least surprising reports I've seen in ages:
GAO warns U.S. vulnerable to oil cutoff

The day that Zarqawi's death was made public, I heard Keith Olbermann mention on Countdown that some web site had posted a piece the day before Zarqawi was killed concluding that he had become more of a liability than an asset to the terrorists, and was likely to become a martyr, one way or another.

Sometimes you read a headline on one day that seems to make no sense, only to get the explanatory headline in the next day or two.  Happened to me this week:

Headline 1, from Reuters: Iraq war bill deletes US military base prohibition

Headline 2, from the U.K.'s Telegraph: US "planning to keep 50,000 troops in Iraq for many years"

Apart from the fact that I think even mentioning Ann Coulter is a mistake (which I obviously repeat here), because it keeps her name/fame alive, I really think that Susan Campbell nailed it on the head in this column from The Hartford Courant:

Not that anyone would ever dream of accusing the Republicans of political opportunism or blatant smears, but.....

As soon as the Democrats decided to call the Republican disease "the culture of corruption," the right wing frothing heads began waging a campaign to muddy those waters.  "Corruption?," they ask innocently.  "Why, that affects both parties.  Yes, corruption is bipartisan."

Which is true, and completely distorts the reality of the problem.

As you may or may not know, one of the A-list blogs, Daily Kos is holding a convention in Sin City, USA....

Allen Raymond, the Republican operative who carried out the 2002 Republican scheme to jam Democratic phone lines in NH has gotten out of prison and started explaining himself to The Boston Globe:

It's easy to lose sight of the fact that the sleaze of Jack Abramoff and his many, many cronies and stooges have had real effects on real people for a really long time.

Case in point: the Northern Marianas Islands, as documented in a 2002 government report not released until recently.

Bob Ney, the Republican Congressman from Ohio appears to be about neck deep in the Abramoff scandal (not that you can always tell, since he's become invisible to Republicans).

Now, according to a piece in the Times Reporter of Ohio, has taken to publicly deriding and insulting a reporter for Copley News Service.

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