Houston Chronicle:
Nationally syndicated columnist Molly Ivins has been hospitalized in her recurring battle with breast cancer.
“I think she’s tough as a metal boot,” her brother, Andy Ivins, said Friday after a visit with her at Seton Medical Center in Austin.
Andy Ivins said his sister was admitted to Seton on Thursday. She spent Friday morning with [...]

Reporting from inside the courtroom in the CIA leak-related trial of Scooter Libby this week revealed that former White House spokesman Ari Fleisher sought immunity from prosecution because he was worried he might have committed treason — and even fearred he was in jeopardy of receiving the death penalty:
Fleischer saw a story in the Washington [...]

Newsweek:
White House anxiety is mounting over the prospect that top officials—including deputy chief of staff Karl Rove and counselor Dan Bartlett-may be forced to provide potentially awkward testimony in the perjury and obstruction trial of Lewis (Scooter) Libby.

“Some are condemning the plan before it even has a chance to work.”
I don’t know about you but comments like that by Bush and his henchmen Cheney, Limbaugh, and Lieberman are really getting on my nerves. Not to mention this chestnut:
President Bush…said Friday “I’m the decision-maker” about sending more troops to the war.
He still expects [...]

McCain’s brain: The Pensito Review brain trust was standing around our virtual water cooler yesterday, scratching our heads over Sen. John McCain’s siding with George Bush on the surge deal in Iraq. Not to mention some of McCain’s recent appointments to his exploratory committee and his tactics on dealing with Mitt Romney’s campaign. Thank goodness [...]

Jeb Bush kept a tight lid on the problems his policies created in Florida while he was in office. But Jeb’s gone now and that famous Florida sunshine is shining in the cracks once so snuggly covered.
Take privatization for example. Even a Republican state senator is appalled at the sweet deal Jeb’s prison contractors enjoyed. [...]

I am not a fan of Al Gore’s. Never have been. Could not wait to vote against him in the 1988 New York primary. But, as I said last March, he has the best chance to win the presidency in 2008 of any candidate in either party.
All things being equal, it’s hard to see [...]

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. But in modern war there is nothing sweet and fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.
— Ernest Hemingway (1898-1961), American writer, Nobel Prize 1954

We have been suggesting for a while that Vice Pres. Cheney would step down early this year — due to “health problems” or boredom with government. Now there’s a new swirl of rumors going around.
Rice is unelectable as president. For one thing, the GOP can’t win without taking every Red state Bush won in 2004. [...]

Los Angeles Times:
The Los Angeles protest is to begin at noon outside the California Democratic Party’s Los Angeles office at 888 S. Figueroa St., with participants marching past City Hall to the federal building at 300 N. Los Angeles St.
Emboldened by the Democratic takeover of Congress and shrinking public support for the Iraq war, antiwar [...]