With all our money going to the Middle East, funding for other foreign policy is slipping. OK, this Terry Schiavo crap is starting to piss me off. Ted Rall: America takes a stand . More bad news for the Washington Examiner . FRIDAY NEWS: * Senate rejects Bush's Medicare cuts . Kung-pao! * Is Iraq's transitional government fundamentally flawed? * Europeans resist the Wolfowitz nomination. * Afghani crime wave makes the citizens long for the Taliban. * Republicans spending money to keep their own members in line on social security . * The four Mirmehdis brothers are finally released from prison. * Democrats find a precedent for the judicial filibuster . * C-SPAN plan to give equal time to Holocaust denier is criticized. * Researcher fabricated data in federal studies on women. Maybe we should find a different way to deal with global warming . DC in Legos (courtesy missmeridian.) "Wolfowitz to the World Bank? Does that mean we will invade poor countries pre-emptively, BEFORE they can default on their loans?" - Joel Achenbach