The "Breaking News" of the day is that former CIA agent Valerie Plame is suing Vice President Dick Cheney, his former chief of staff Lewis "Scooter" Libby and presidential adviser Karl Rove for leaking her identity to get revenge against her husband, former ambassador Joe Wilson. If somebody I'd just passed on the street had […]
If you own a Toyota Tundra pickup truck and get a recall notice, you might want to ignore it. This fall, Toyota will voluntarily recall nearly 160,000 Toyota Tundra pickups so that they can be made less safe for children riding in the front seat. No, that's not a mistake - at least not on […]
The Supreme Court's decision in the Hamdan case (which gave terrorists who don't follow the rules of war the protection of those who do follow the rules of war) should've signalled to our troops in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere that unless you've captured a very important terrorist leader, that summary executions -- allowed by the […]
National Review's Andrew McCarthy has a must-read article on the implications of the Supreme Court's Hamdan ruling for the FBI's terrorist surveillance program. For those of you with short attention spans, I direct you to a less-eloquent summary of the situation by yours truly.
Well, my computer's video card, a Radeon X700, started misbehaving a few weeks back, and it got worse Monday night, so yesterday I stopped by Circuit City on my way to work and picked up a new card. I popped the old card out, popped the new card in, and then had to reboot the […]
Last week, federal district judge Richard Matsch ruled that three Utah-based companies that provide PG-rated, edited versions of feature films are an "illegitimate business." The quotes from Matsch in the CBC article are over the top. Judge Richard P. Matsch decreed on Thursday in Denver, Colo., that sanitizing movies to delete content that may offend […]
I just finished reading Richard Brookhiser's "What Would the Founders Do?" It's a pretty good general survey of the founders views on a variety of issues. Perhaps the most interesting tidbit that I discovered was that there was agreement in both the Federalist and Democratic parties that something like an interstate highway system would require […]
But a federal judge ruled today (surprise!) that Congressional Capitol Hill offices are not a safe haven for criminal activity. Hogan acknowledged the "unprecedented" nature of the case. But he said the lawmakers' "sweeping" theory of legislative privilege "would have the effect of converting every congressional office into a taxpayer-subsidized sanctuary for crime." A member […]
On today's A-1 of the Union-Tribune: More than just Latinos illegally call U.S. home Nearly one-quarter are from other nations If anyone can find Latino on a map, I'd much appreciate it.
Last week's celebratory Independence Day rocket launches by the North Koreans are putting China in a pickle. China has one client state -- North Korea -- and over the past decade or so they've been willing to let Kim Jong Il throw periodic temper tantrums because the outbursts caused the U.S. more worry than it […]