Iran’s president publicly calls for the destruction of Israel. His offensive and insane words were somewhat less shocking given that he delivered them during a speech at The World Without Zionism conference.

Hey, wait just a second. In these times of tight supply and soaring prices, how could oil companies be reporting a quarter of record revenues?

Paul Begala on What It’s Like to be in a White House under siege.

“Tom Petty was wrong. The waiting is not the hardest part.”

A couple of major science publishers have informed Kansas officials that they can’t use their evolution materials as long as they are mixed in with other forms of non-science of the supernatural sort.

Now I finally understand why newspapers don’t include the year in their article datelines. This one could easily be from Oct 27 several decades ago.

Harry Reid called the Harriet Miers withdrawal a victory for the radical right. Others might see it as a victory for meritocracy. Either way, it’s a big and rare loss for W.

Who will he pick next? We’ll those on left be sorry about what they wished for? Or will Bush refuse to look like he is bowing down before party extremists? Will W include team Cheney in the selection process this time around? This is, even without the Plame scandal, is one of the more intriguing moments in the W presidency.

It would be sort of funny if for W’s next Supreme nomination he picked Michael Brown.

Everything you ever wanted to know about the Miers nomination and more…