America’s proudest employees — the people of the Department of Housing and Urban Development — got a rude surprise yesterday when they tried to catch up on housing and urban development developments by reading Wonkette. MORE »

Again with the military blocking Wonkette so our fighting forces won’t be exposed to inane exchanges from Late Night Shots. A Wonkette operative at a U.S. Army base in Europe sent us this shocking evidence. We asked the soldier to try some other political sites and report back, but he hasn’t answered because the Army killed him, probably. MORE »

The state that most fears the Black Man having sexual intercourse with the White Gal has yet another Traditional Southern Values scandal, and this time it involves deep fryers … and little American flags, which were tastily battered in with egg, flour and pepper before being dropped in hot peanut oil. MORE »

Nick Gillespie, right. The biggest biceps in blogging, next to K-Lo. [Photo: Liz Gorman] MORE »

A couple of Marines told us last week that various blogs of the non-Bush-worshiping variety were being blocked at some U.S. bases in Iraq, despite the ready availability of pro-Bush blogs. And next thing you know, Hill staffers are hitting us up for details and the sad tale is on CNN. MORE »

We were hoping somebody would ask this question at Rumsfeld’s press conference today, but no such luck, as usual. (Wonkette doesn’t even have the Pentagon clearance for Craigslist booty calls.)

Here’s what little we know: Late Friday, a crazy six-alarm fire gutted the three-story Building 54, where the 902nd Military Intelligence Group did its special work. That work included infiltrating a group of Quaker pacifists, running allegedly-banned Total Information Awareness and TALON surveillance monstrosities that DARPA was forced to hide somewhere else, and conducting “counterintelligence activities in support of Army commanders and to protect Army forces, secrets and technologies by detecting, identifying, neutralizing and exploiting foreign intelligence services and international terrorist threats.”

We’ll see if this has anything to do with that Pentagon vs. CIA vs. NSA secret war we keep hearing about, after the jump. ECNATSNEPPAH SI ECNO …

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We realize that when it comes to freedom of the press, the USA has fallen to Number 53 in the world — tied with our fascist homies in Croatia and the islanders of the Kingdom of Tonga! — but do we have to make is so damned obvious? MORE »

Remember that letter from an anonymous Marine we posted the other day? Come on, think, think! Yes, the one about Wonkette and various other political blog-style sites of the non-Bush Supporty Variety being blocked by the Evil Pentagon Blocking Technology?

Well, we still don’t know if it’s true, but CNN’s “Situation Room” was able to milk it for 30 seconds of legendary broadcasting. See the shocking evidence, after the jump.

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According to some nosey international group, the United States has again fallen down the Worldwide Press Freedom Index. MORE »

Guess what websites are being blocked by the Pentagon to make sure U.S. troops in Iraq don’t get any big ideas? MORE »

Fuck! We sure are glad we don’t work in radio or TV. MORE »