Larry Craig, Idaho’s gay anti-gay senator, will resign.
(headline via Randi Rhodes) (cross posted at appletree)

I felt inspired at last night’s comic jam.

This is funny on so many levels.

(click to inflate)
William Paw is a generous man. Since 2005, he and five family members have donated $200,000 to Democrats, and the $45,000 they gave to Hillary Clinton puts them in the top tier of her donor families. Only one problem: the household income for the Paw family is just $49,000 per year. So how […]

So far the consensus in the liberal blogosphere (even for some wingnuts) is that if not for homophobia, Larry Craig would have been free to indulge in gay sex without guilt or shame and would not have needed to live a lie. People don’t go as far as to pity him because of Craig’s […]

There are currently more than 160,000 US soldiers in Iraq, and when there are that many soldiers fighting in an area, local civilians will suffer casualties, and some atrocities will occur. But a new study indicates that American soldiers in Iraq have generally conducted themselves professionally and in accordance with the Geneva conventions:
A Georgetown professor […]

At least 51 are dead and another 200 wounded as rival militias clashed in the holy city of Karbala. There appears to be many more casualties not yet reported, as local hospitals are being overwhelmed with casualties.
The fighting mars the pilgrimage of more than one million Shiites from Baghdad to Karbala in order to attend […]

…you should read what political think-tank can come up with. Philip Atkinson, a lazy bum who lives on corporate welfare, wrote a piece claiming that the United States should commit nuclear genocide in Iraq and install George W. Bush as dictator for life.
The full text is here. Philip Atkinson work for The Family Security Foundation, […]

Almost a year ago I made a post about the potential outing of Republiqueer Senator Larry Craig. Something about public restroom gay sex. Of course, as a closeted conservative excuse of a human excrement, Larry had to be extra homophobic just to be sure nobody would suspect how gay he is. For some reason it […]

Wow - I never thought I’d be recommending a milblogger to read, but Army of Dude is something else! Apparently a total GI Joe right out of high school, this brilliant 22 year old kid is winding up his 15 month deployment in Iraq and nobody has pulled the wool over his eyes. […]

From the Washington Post:
Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales has resigned from his post, according to an administration official, ending a controversial cabinet tenure that included clashes with Congress over the firing of nine U.S. attorneys and over the use of warrantless wiretaps in the war on terror.
Josh Marshall gives us a retrospective of Gonzo’s Top […]