Spanish voters, reaching the polls in the shadow of a terrorist atrocity, elect the left opposition and demonstrate their recognition that Aznar and his cohort don’t have the answers to bring Spain a more peaceful future:

Security was heightened on the streets, and leading politicians, including the outgoing prime minister, cast ballots to applause and jeers. Protesters taunted him during a morning appearance with his wife at a local school with the chant: “Your war, our dead,” a slogan that others sought to drown out with shouts of “Viva Aznar!”

Palestinian suicide bombers murder eleven in an attempt to derail the peace process, and the Israeli government takes the opportunity to call off the peace talks that represent the only viable route to ending the violence.

Patients and Doctors continue pushing for real state-wide reform in Connecticut in the face of Yale – New Haven Hospital’s continued abuse of its medical debt policy.

Tomorrow the Department of Education will announce a partial rollback of the punitive and inflexible standards imposed by the No Child Left Behind Act. No word yet on whether the real reform imperative – increased funding to make the right to public education robust – is on the table.

Spanish families mourn and bury the dead.

The DC council blasts the leadership of the DC police for their handling of protesters.

California’s Supreme Court rules against the San Francisco marriages. This is not, however, a movement that’s going to be rolled back.

Looks like everyone who can is trying to cash in on what Mayor DeStefano recognized as “bank robbery” before he cut a deal.

Iraq’s interim constitution has been signed.

FAIR notes how the media have swallowed the RNC line on Kerry.

HRW documents abuses by US troops in Afghanistan.