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Stand Down This “Left-Right blog opposing a war in Iraq” is only a few days old and it already has a high level of intelligent postings about why an Iraq war is a terrible idea. What’s more, the thirty or so blogmasters posting to…

California is seriously broke The winner of Tuesday’s election will have barely two months to propose at least $10 billion in budget cuts, tax increases and other “revenue enhancements” — and possibly as much as $20 billion, an amount equivalent…

This is not a joke, repeat not a joke Russia to monitor American electionsThe monitors are charged with assessing whether next Tuesday’s mid-term elections in Florida meet international standards of democracy “with a focus on evaluation of the actions the…

This should certainly advance the cause of peace Sharon asks Netanyahu to be foreign minister

Scientists find herbicide causes frog sex change One of the world’s most popular weedkillers, atrazine, is common in water and could be having a sex-change effect on amphibians. American scientists have discovered a strong link between atrazine and hermaphrodite tendencies…