The Iraqi health ministry began keeping count in April of this year of casualties inflicted by US and Iraqi forces, and insurgents. Since that time, according to an article by Knight-Ridder correspondent Nancy Youssef, the ministry says that “operations by U.S. and multinational forces and Iraqi police are killing twice as many Iraqis – . . . → Read More: Iraq health ministry: US is killing more civilians than the insurgents are

Eddie Adams, the photographer who captured one of the signature images of the Vietnam war, died last weekend. Pete Hamill’s is one among many tributes to him this weekend.

Look for Digital Journalist to do a retrospective soon.

The Sunday talk show lineup features return appearances from two of the Republican senators, Chuck Hagel and Lindsey Graham, who criticised Bush on Iraq last weekend. Just a guess, but one might expect them to be a little less atonal this time. Graham is on “Face the Nation” opposite Ted Kennedy, and Hagel, along . . . → Read More: Senators Graham and Hagel to repent on Sunday; no McCain

Don Rumsfeld is a former wrestler so you can’t ever count him out of the game, but today he went up against deputy secretary of state Richard Armitage, who probably isn’t a former wrestler but is built something along the lines of the Hoover Dam with a big bald head glued on top. You . . . → Read More: An administration at war, with itself, again

Republican National Committee spokeswoman Christine Iverson confirmed to the New York Times that the Republican National Committee is responsible for mailing out campaign literature claiming that liberals want to ban the Bible.

According to the Times, Iverson defended the ad in an email, saying, “When the Massachusetts Supreme Court sanctioned same-sex marriage and . . . → Read More: Banning the Bible: How Low Can You Go?

… I was reminded of the feeling one often has when talking to American civilian officials in Iraq: one begins by suspecting they are not being candid in the view they offer of the situation, which leaves one feeling annoyed; one ends by suspecting they are being candid in the view they offer of . . . → Read More: How George Bush made Abu Ghraib a U.S. brand

US officials have recently acknowledged that Iraq has almost no potable water because of collapsing water and sewage systems. Reconstruction is on hold, power is spotty, and in many places it’s just too dangerous to go to work. So in addition to worrying about insurgents and criminals, stray US missiles and left-over cluster bombs, . . . → Read More: Iraq: its own little apocalypse

Let no one tell you reporters have no sense of humor, however unconscious it might be. Here’s how AP’s White House reporter, Terence “That Dog Don’t” Hunt, closed his piece on Allawi’s speech to Congress and his joint press conference with Bush: [Allawi's] address to Congress was warmly received.

Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., who . . . → Read More: Comments on Iraqi Prime Minister’s address to Congress

Lyndon Johnson enjoys the distinction of being the first US president be officially diagnosed with a case of credibility gap. The term was coined by the now-defunct New York Herald-Tribune, which went belly-up about a year after saddling Johnson with the tag for his creative explanations of the escalating US involvement in Vietnam. Eventually, . . . → Read More: The President Who Could Fly

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Bush’s campaign is urging election regulators to allow it and rival John Kerry to raise unlimited individual donations to cover costs for a possible recount, as Bush and rival Al Gore could in 2000.

Meanwhile, in Des Moines, two Democrats cast Iowa’s first two absentee ballots for the upcoming election. . . . → Read More: Let the recounts begin