Bush wants to nominate either Antonin Scalia or Clarence Thomas as Chief Justice. This is just an example of the extreme right wing agenda the Bushites will be pushing in 2005. Get used to it. Organize. Mobilize. Fight.  

China army will ‘crush’ any Taiwan independence move Relations between China and Taiwan are grim and the mainland will crush any major moves toward independence by the island no matter what the cost, the government said in a policy paper…

Ansar Al-Sunna has posted a video of the attack on the US base FOB Marez in Mosul. Astonishingly, they filmed the actual explosion, then drove around the base in order to get a good shot of the gaping hole in…

In clerics’ Iran, children of the revolution seek escape Repelled by theocratic rule, some youths turn to drugs or suicide, music or the mountains. “When I was a youth, we were revolutionaries, and we were ready to pay the price,”…

Via Crooks and Liars Breaking news from the Jerusalem Post. The US is contemplating incursions into Syrian territory in an attempt to kill or capture Iraqi Ba’athists who, it believes, are directing at least part of the attacks against US…

Update: According to the results of my highly unscientific dKos poll, only a scant 5% of us always blog in our jammies, and a robust 28% never do. Granted that 37% checked the “sometimes” box, but do you want me…