Those Wacky Whacky Females - Ivins and Arianna

Whacking the Hornet's Nest - Molly Ivins

Anyone see any reason to think Haiti will be better off without Jean-Bertrand Aristide? Just another little gift from the Bush foreign policy team, straight out of the whacko-right playbook.

Arianna Huffington - Bush Backs The NRA

If the Democratic nominee is smart, he'll pull out the big guns and lay waste to Karl Rove's attempts to present the president as our great protector. In truth, homicides and violent crimes are on the rise for the first time in nearly a decade. That's right: Crime has gone up on George Bush's watch.

I can hear the TV spot now: "Are you safer today than you were four years ago?" It's an armor-piercing election-year issue, one that could score a bull's-eye directly in W's most vulnerable area.