DARFUR UPDATE:

Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Ill.) will be arrested today in front of the Sudanese Embassy as part of an ongoing protest against what members of the Congressional Black Ccaucus say is genocide in the country’s Darfur region, Rush’s spokesperson confirmed yesterday. . . .

Rush will be the second congressman to be arrested in front of the embassy, joining Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.), who was arrested Tuesday.

Good for them. There’s also this news:

Calling the present humanitarian crisis in Sudan’s western region of Darfur an irrefutable example of genocide, Senator Sam Brownback (Republican of Kansas) said July 13 that the Senate would immediately introduce a resolution condemning the Sudanese government and calling for international intervention.

Nice to see bipartisan efforts here.