The deck is stacked

A quote: Attention, conspiracy theorists: The biggest conspiracy to steal votes already happened. It’s called redistricting, and it offers Republicans’ only real hope of holding onto the House this fall. Polls indicate that Democrats are preferred to Republican by a…

Irony alert

Rice, in Baghdad, Insists That Iraqis Are ‘Making Progress’By PHILIP SHENONPublished: BAGHDAD, Oct. 5 — Wearing a helmet and a flak jacket and flanked by machine-gun-toting bodyguards to defend against insurgents, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice came here Thursday, insisting…