Quoted: It is, I believe, a positive development that The New York Times today has a front-page article documenting how active the debate is inside the Bush administration over whether to attack Iran. Perhaps the article will elevate the attention level paid to this very real and very dangerous possibility.

The essence of the article is this:
The debate has pitted Ms. Rice and her deputies, who appear to be winning so far, against the few remaining hawks inside the administration, especially those in Vice President Dick Cheney's office who, according to some people familiar with the discussions, are pressing for greater consideration of military strikes against Iranian nuclear facilities.

Quoted: Either a car bomb killed people or a car hit a roadside bomb, killing people.

the excesses of fragmented representation continue...

Quoted: The narrow approval of the measure sets the stage for the first veto fight between President Bush and majority Democrats.

despite my going back and forth on gun control, here the back story to bush's arrival at the V tech campus on the day after the shootings is well developed...

Quoted: Greg Palast, reporting for BBC, Harpers and more

Quoted: Mr. Cheney’s hand-written scribbles were introduced into evidence at the trial, including the one that hinted Mr. Cheney believed that his own staffer, Mr. Libby, was being sacrificed.

“’Not going to protect one staffer + sacrifice the guy who was asked to stick his neck in the meat-grinder because of the incompetence of others,” the note read.

Quoted: President Bush said that the U.S. should expand the size of its armed forces, acknowledging that the military has been strained by the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Quoted: US involved in Iraq longer than in WWII

Quoted: Americans' approval of President Bush's handling of Iraq has dropped to the lowest level ever, increasing the pressure on the commander in chief to find a way out after nearly four years of war.