Friday, February 27, 2009.  Chaos and violence continue in Iraq, the US military announces another death, Barack remembers a war drags on in Iraq (even if he forgets his campaign promise), Robert Gates goes off script, Susan Rice turns herself into the United Nations laughingstoc...

Amid complaints from has own party that he's moving too slowly to end the war in Iraq, President Barack Obama will announce Friday that U.S. combat troops will be withdrawn by Aug. 31, 2010, but that as many as 50,000 Marines and soldiers would remain until the end of 2011.Obama will announce his pl...

All the young (and not-so) duds are thrilled with Racheel Maddow and with the interview she did with Nancy Pelosi. They shouldn't be. Rachel not only does not watch television, she doesn't read. If you're going to have the Speaker of the House on your program Wednesday night it's incumbent upon you ...

After Steve WalshÂ’s eight year departure from Kansas, he returns as a different creature, at least audibly. This (kind of) reunion album marks the noticeable decline of quality of his voice. It is nowhere near where it would be in just a few years, so thereÂ’s still some semblance of the vocalist h...

Let's start where with today's snapshot: Thomas E. Ricks (Foreign Policy) hat tips Juan and Leila -- Thomas, you're usually so much smarter. From his blog post : Salon just carried an insightful review of my book that triggered a mudslide of nasty letters from the magazine's readers."If you enjoyed ...

Time once again for Waxing Off, the feature that was the first on the internet to mix mime and food. This week: The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition . Aileen Gallagher: For my tenth birthday, my parents told me I'd find my present under their bed. I ran upstairs frantically and found nothing but ...

MSNBC is reporting that a tentative deal on the stimulus bill has been reached. The amount of the bill is around $780. Update [2009-2-6 18:3:13 by Todd Beeton]:David Schuster: "A bipartisan group of negotiators in the Senate have tentatively reached a deal and Sen. Harry Reid, the Senate Majority Le...