US troops ‘starve Iraqi citizens’ A senior United Nations official has accused US-led coalition troops of depriving Iraqi civilians of food and water in breach of humanitarian law. Human rights investigator Jean Ziegler said they had driven people out of…

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From Sue: Everybody’s buzzing on the reason for Harriet Miers. To me, it’s a very rational decision tree: Does Bush need to appoint a new Supreme Court Justice? No –> Stop. Yes –> Next question. Does Bush need to appoint…

The White House has shifted from categorical denials two years ago that Rove or Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff, I. Lewis ‘Scooter’ Libby, were involved in the leak of a covert CIA officer’s identity to ‘no comment’ today.

DeLay’s been indicted, and deservedly so. Rove is testifying to the grand jury again. Frist got subpoenaed. The Miers nomination has created a firestorm of protest. Plamegate may well take down the Bush Adminstration. So where are the Democrats? Oh…

A librarian at an evangelical seminary near Philadelphia has made one of the most important musicological finds in memory — because she decided to clean out a dirty cabinet in the building’s basement. Heather Carbo has unearthed Beethoven’s manuscript score…