Orcinus

Noted in passing ... Someone at Tom Bihn, a Port Angeles manufacturer of backpacks and luggage, decided to append the following deta...

Is it the Oxycontin talking again? It's a sign enough of conservatives' mental instability that they're obsessing over the no...

We've been hearing for over a decade from conservatives that liberalism is the source of everything wrong with America. Indeed, attackin...

My friend Jean Rosenfeld, whose work I've mentioned previously, is a religious-studies researcher at UCLA who specializes in analyzing ...

The astonishing mendacity of the Bush administration regarding the ample warnings of impending terrorist attacks in the summer of 2001 -- an...

The depths to which the Moonie-owned Washington Times will reach to attack non-conservatives is no longer a surprise, of course. After all,...

I've been wrapped up in proofing the galleys for Death on the Fourth of July. I'll be back in the saddle again later today.

Something Condoleezza Rice mentioned in her appearance this morning before the 9/11 commission caught my attention: It's also the case...

Sidney Blumenthal has an excellent piece up at Salon about how Condoleezza Rice not only botched the war on terrorism, she also managed to s...

White House spokesman Scott McClellan has been caught once again pretending that up is down (while of course admonishing reporters to do lik...

Ralph Nader's campaign -- which just took a shot to the groin from Oregon voters, who declined to put show up in sufficient numbers at ...

The ghost of the "Willie Horton" campaign of 1988 is hovering over the congressional race in Texas between Democrat Martin Frost ...

Jessica Stern, whose previous work I recently cited, weighs in at Salon with an important analysis of the Bush administration's "w...

[Graffiti at an abandoned business in West Seattle, April 1994] Come dowsed in mud, soaked in bleach As I want you to be As a tre...

Stinging Nettle is reporting that anti-abortion activists are driving around Raleigh, N.C., today in large trucks adorned with photos of ab...

[From Without Sanctuary ] It is no great surprise that the photos from Fallujah last week of the burned corpses of American "co...