To the gates of hell, but maybe not to Pakistan

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First trailer for Oliver Stone flick on Bush

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Does this nix Romney as McCain’s veep choice?

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John McCain has labored mightily — and hypocritically, it might be said – to ingratiate himself with evangelical right-wingers  after having disparaged their leaders as “agents of intolerance.”

But now the Religious Right is WARNING Mr. Straight Talk not to choose Mitt Romney as his running mate.

The Mittster, as you may know, reportedly has been on McCain’s short list of veep possibilities. Some polls rate him the most popular choice, and some analysts say he could help the GOP ticket carry Michigan, an important swing state.

But would McCain dare defy Tim LaHaye and others of his ilk on this matter?

(NOTE: The link above may not work right away, presumably because of heavy traffic.  If so, try it later or Google “Romney McCain Washington Times.”)

UPDATE: For SOME REASON, I doubt that McCain will pick Sen. Ted Stevens.
 

Did the surge succeed? Or was there just a lot of ethnic cleansing in Iraq?

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Juan Cole SUGGESTS that people who deem the surge in Iraq to have been successful might have fallen for a logical fallacy known as post hoc ergo propter hoc: If event X comes after event Y, it is natural to suspect that Y caused X.

It’s like saying that once the baseball season starts, drownings increase. Therefore, baseball causes drownings.

This is just ducky!

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House and Senate lawmakers AGREED Monday to ban a family of toxins from the manufacture of toys and other children’s items amid concerns that kids can suffer ill effects from merely chewing on rubber ducks.

But President Bush, ever the tool of the oil and chemical industries, opposes the ban and may veto the measure.

A federally-funded study conducted in 2005 found that male babies born to women with high levels of the targeted toxins in their blood exhibited changes related to low sperm count, undescended testicles and other reproductive problems. Other studies have connected some of the suspect chemicals, known as phthalates, to liver and kidney cancer.