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I thought John Bolton would get the nod to replace Colin Powell, but I was wrong about him and Freddy Krueger too. Apparently the position calls for someone a little less independent than my top choices, so the fearsomely intelligent and utterly overmatched Ms. Rice it is. Maybe the odds on getting Bolton or . . . → Read More: Condi Blue

Moderate Republican senator Arlen Specter (left, with the ears) has to appear in front of a senatorial Office of the Inquisition to prove that he is incapable of exercising any independent judgement before his Republican colleagues will allow him to assume the chairmanship of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Specter was slated to succeed senator . . . → Read More: How to house-break a skittish Senator

Former US representative Helen Chenoweth was pulled aside for a pat-down last month as she was about to embark on a one-way flight to Reno from Boise City, Idaho. She wound up driving because she refused to submit to the body search without being shown the regulation authorizing it, and security personnel refused to . . . → Read More: Face the wall and spread ‘em, grandma

Iris Chang, author of “The Rape of Nanking,” killed herself yesterday. She was 36 years old, a passionate and successful writer and lecturer and the mother of a two-year-old son.

. . . → Read More: Ashcroft out, Gonzales in, synchronicity reigns

When William Jennings Bryan took on the prosecution of John T. Scopes in 1925, he acted as much from social conscience as from his sense of religious propriety. He saw Darwinism as the antithesis of the progressive causes he championed.

Today’s opponents of Darwin are cut from a different cloth.

Bryan was a passionate . . . → Read More: Social Darwinists take on Darwin

Liberals wishing to reach across the cultural divide to their red-state brethren may want to do a little homework first as jubilant right-wing Christians draw up their wish list for a second Bush administration. Among the priorities are a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage and an end to rules threatening the tax exemptions of . . . → Read More: Church politicking on the taxpayer dime, an end to abortion

The BBC reports that the Nazzal Emergency Hospital in central Falluja has been destroyed by US air strikes, along with an adjacent storeroom.

While religious conservatives in the US celebrate their success at banning gay marriages in eleven states, somewhere between 60,000 and 150,000 Falluja residents, those who can’t or won’t leave the city . . . → Read More: As moralists fight to bar gay marriage, a Falluja hospital dies

Yasser Arafat has survived assasination attempts, bombings, a plane crash in which only he lived, brain surgery, and a transition from terrorist to politician. The press has been poised to deliver his obituary on several occasions—some did, in fact, when his plane went down in Libya—so it’s worth remembering that at least as of . . . → Read More: Yasser Arafat: A possibly premature retrospective