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Condoleezza Rice, in an interview on a Detroit radio talk show: Does anybody really believe that somebody would have walked into my office ...

For people in the Puget Sound region, killer whales are more than just a nature story. They're also a political story. Certainly, they’v...

The whole "treasonous liberals" meme has been bubbling along for some time now, starting probably with Ann Coulter and Michael ...

by Sara Robinson Frank James at the Chicago Tribune's political blog, The Swamp, asks: So are we seeing the beginnings of the Mark Fol...

Hip waders are in full fashion now that the attack ads against Darcy Burner are all over the airwaves. Just on the facts alone, as Daryl at...

Following in Jane Hamsher's footsteps, I've decided to sign on to the Spotlight Project, a kind of blog experiment that lets reade...

As a resident of one of the cities potentially in the sights of North Korea should it actually prove to have become a member of the nuclear ...

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The headliner at Saturday night's Town Hall gig -- a panel discussion on blogs and the press that was a fund-raiser for Foolproof -- w...

Sure enough, just like clockwork, no sooner are we blessed with a visit from Karl Rove in support of Republican Rep. Dave Reichert of Seatt...

The unhinged right blogosphere, led as usual by Michelle Malkin , and concern trolls like Instawanker and Peter Beinart, are all together ...

by Sara Robinson Anybody who spends much time in bloggerland knows that once a right-winger gets ahold of a talking point, there's no ge...

How much longer, one has to wonder, will our mainstream press continue to pretend that Pat Buchanan has not gone completely around the bend?...

by Sara Robinson Less than two months ago, during my first week here at Orcinus, I wrote the second segment of my series, Cracks In The Wall...

by Sara Robinson Seven days since the Foley scandal broke, and the list of GOP-designated Official Scapegoats is already almost a dozen stro...

Josh Rosenau at Thoughts From Kansas spotted this banner from Answers from Genesis, making a connection we're starting to hear a lot m...

by Sara Robinson In the end, it might just turn out that the net effect of the Foley debacle could be more evangelicals at the polls this fa...

I think Barbara at Mahablog and Eric Alterman have it right: What is currently driving me the craziest, however, are the variations on thi...