U.S. judge says victims’ bodies can prevent rape

From Salon’s Machinist: [In this week’s 60 Minutes] a Republican lawyer charged Bush operative Karl Rove with planning a campaign to ruin Don Siegelman, the former Democratic governor of Alabama, who was  [more...]

Gosh, a tortured suspect telling his torturers exactly what they want to hear? Who'd have thunk? I mean, doesn't the CIA ever watch TV?

Eugene Robinson makes these rather obvious predictions for 2006: (1) George W. Bush will continue his bid to enter the Guinness Book of World Records for “Most Frequent Use of the Blame-the-Messenger Strategy  [more...]