John Geyman, emeritus professor at the University of Washington medical school, has just published a book that should be essential reading for anyone interested in real health care reform.

Events have now justified the argument that seating Florida and Michigan in full back in May would have had no material effect on the outcome and could have been done then.

I was checking mail on Yahoo when I noticed the headline Obama dismisses conservative criticism. When I clicked through, I found... omigod, real journalism!

Iraq controlled its own destiny, but could not prevail in its most important match.

Iraq's soccer team wins an important match, but the celebrations quickly turned into mourning.

Clinton's prevarications proven--by her own website!

World soccer governing body FIFA has provisionally lifted the suspension that would have disqualified Iraq from the World Cup.

By moving up their primaries, Florida and Michigan forfeited the most valuable coin in the nominating process: influence.

FIFA, the world governing body of soccer, has suspended Iraq from all international soccer competitions.

John Edwards has ruled out VP, but was much more coy when asked about a Cabinet position.

The question should be "Why can't McCain close the deal?" Here are the results of the last four GOP primaries.

"Diaper" David Vitter, Louisiana's most famous family values hypocrite, is in a bit of a bind. Bonus: You can hear Vitter lying through his teeth yourself.

Rush Limbaugh shifted stations from his New Orleans home of 18 years. To make sure all the dittoheads in town don't miss him, his show is now running 24/7.

Backing down from an avalanche of bad publicity led by MSNBC's Keith Olbermann, Wal-Mart has decided not to pursue its $470,000 judgment against a brain-damaged former employee.

If you were watching Countdown tonight, you saw Keith Olbermann in his "Bushed" segment report that at least 12 service members have been electrocuted in Iraq due to faulty wiring at facilities maintained by Halliburton spinoff company KBR. As appalling as that is, the details are even worse.

A recent diary reported Keith Olbermann's increasing success in the head-to-head competition with Bill O'Reilly. We can only imagine what the ratings would look like if the playing field were level--it isn't.

Keith Olbermann's contract extension in February called for occasional appearances on parent network NBC. The first comes Sunday, August 22nd.

Since Hurricane Katrina, mobile taquerias catering to the mostly Mexican recovery workers have become a feature of the New Orleans area landscape. Except in white-bread Republican Jefferson Parish, whose council recently voted to effectively ban the taco trucks while leaving similar businesses untouched.