Live from the Nuke Free Zone

Via Error, French and Brazilian researchers have produced a treatment that lowers HIV levels by 80%. This might not be a total AIDS cure, but it does promise make the disease much less fatal.
Also, Slashdot
reports that a paralyzed woman is walking again after being treated with cord-blood stem cells. The Slashdot comments devolve into a […]

Making the rounds of the blogs recently — most likely due to major media coverage of the required recount — is a story about the apparent failure of a vote in the state of Alabama that would have amended the state’s constitution to get rid of three segregation-era sections: one mandating segregation in schools, one […]

Back before the American presidential election, I’d written about the election campaign in Ukraine. The short version of what happened over the past couple of weeks is that the initial election led to a runoff vote, as I said, and the campaign was about as ugly as I’d expected, albeit without any actual physical violence. […]

Remember that US Marine who shot and killed the non-armed Iraqi insurgent in the mosque?
The cameraman for that incident, Kevin Sites, has a blog. And in his latest blog entry, he discusses shooting that footage and the ensuing hard decisions to be made. I’d like to excerpt some of that here.
Through my viewfinder […]

In this weekend before Thanksgiving, the House served up the Senate
with a great big stuffed turkey called an Omnibus Appropriations Bill.
This more than 1,000 page monstrosity was handed over to the upper
house with just enough time to need to pass it
right now or else the government would run out
of money and shut down for a […]

Riffing off of Oliver Willis’ brilliant "Brand
Democrat" poster campaign, here’s #4’s contribution to the good work:

Remember, that’s Democrat[tm] brand America.

From TPM:
DELAY: I have never participated in this politics of personal destruction. I think it’s detrimental to the institution and to both Democrats and Republicans in the institution. It looks bad for all of us. And so I’ve never done it.
You know, this explains so very much about the House Majority Leader. Or mebbe […]

Well now, as the man said… isn’t this an interesting turn of events.
Iowa, one of the sought-after swing states in this year’s presidential election, has elected an evenly divided Senate, 25-25. Unlike the U.S. Senate and some other states, Iowa’s executive branch does not break the tie. The parties have decided to share […]

Living in RedStateVille (Redding, CA), I happen to be represented by Congressman Wally Herger, a Republican who represents the Second Congressional District of California. So, being a consitiuent of Congressman Herger I’m in a uniquely neat place.
Joshua Micah Marshall, of Talking Points Memo asked us to pose the question about how they voted on […]

You may have heard that someone set himself on fire in front of the White House today. Another politically motivated (attempted) suicide, like the guy who brought a shotgun to the WTC site? There’s a lot more to it than that. The guy’s an FBI informant who has already helped the feds nab a suspected […]