The Baathist Party of the Assad family has ruled this Mediterranean nation since 1963 with Hafez Assad ruling from 1970 until his son Bashar took over after his death in 2000. Al Jazeera is reporting that today that the Cabinet is likely to resign and there will be some kinds of reform implemented.

Sandbags. That’s right, we’re literally down to sandbags to keep a trench filled with highly radiative water from spilling its content into the sea.

• The President’s still bullish on Operation Stupid.
• Fact-checking Obama’s speech.
• Will the nuclear crisis in Japan ever end?
• A government shutdown seems increasingly likely.
• Stay classy, conservatives!

I guess “takes one to know one” will be the next proclamation.

Kelly Clarkson – My Life Would Suck Without You

We can cure war, famine, pestilence and death with one decade of fair income taxes from GE. Suspending our wars will provide enough funds to make our schools palaces. We could feed hundreds of people for what we spend on just one day of dropping bombs on other countries in the name of peace.

We do have a choice. We don’t have to declare the majority of the conversation off limits and then fight over the few political scraps that are left. We just have to admit that the snakes are invisible and so is the mongoose.

The unredacted sections of the Goldsmith Memo do not rely on In re Sealed Case to claim warrantless wiretapping qualifies as a special need, whereas the White Paper does.

Bipartisanship is rare, but it seems there is one thing governors of both parties can agree on: “Shared sacrifice” really means more tax cuts for the rich to force regular people to share all the sacrifice.

The Restauteur provides a more in depth and nail biting look at what happens when an experienced professional may have bitten off more than he can chew.

Stirring, no? Moving, right? Well, get prepared to be moved. . . all the way from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue to 300 5th Avenue SW.

That’s right, in order to comunicate that the US role in the coalition strikes against Muammar Gaddafi and Libyan government forces is not in any way a war and he double-dog dares anyone who says it is, President Obama is taking his show on the road. . . or up the road. . . delivering this speech not from the Oval Office, not before a joint session of Congress, but to a room of “mid-career military officers at the National Defense University in Washington.”