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An advance look at John Bolton speaking to the UN Security Council.

Bush's bully.

The Republican Senate seeks to eliminate the fillibuster.

For more on judicial nominations, see Garrett Epps's "Judicial Jeopardy: Questions for Nominees."

The people in the know said Snow
Was someone who would have to go.
The dollar's at an all-time low.
On Wall Street, numbers fail to grow.

I, Condoleezza Rice, was leaning over the kitchen sink, hacking up a half-dozen or so rotisserie chickens and slinging the parts into a serving dish in time for the first of the party guests.

"Dr. Rice, nice to see you again. Congratulations on your appointment. We Democrats on the committee are certainly in no position to block your nomination.

Official dishonesty is never worthwhile.

Of the making of many books about Abraham Lincoln there is no end.

Who should
control access to the archives of the 9/11 Commission after it closes
up shop in August? The commission's records will go to the National
Archives.