That's right, it's the 34th annual banging of the tip jar. Tommorrow's the 4th of July, but today is the 3rd of July -- aka my birthday. If you feel so inclined, drop a nice birthday wish in the comments. Or, you could head over to Amazon.com and buy me a gift of some sort. […]
It seems that the New York Times, which divulged a classified program aimed at tracking terrorist financing a couple weeks ago, has decided that their initial "public's right to know" defense was inadequate and is falling back on their "everybody knew" defense. Patterico has helpful details here and here. I'd also like to note that […]
I've been doing some more blawg (that's a legal blog for those of you unfamiliar with all of the hip blog-terminology) reading on the Hamdan case and came across this piece over at Professor Bainbridge's place. Bainbridge appears to suggest that the Congress re-pass the Detainee Treatment Act of 2005, re-stripping the court of jurisdiction […]
After today's Supreme Court ruling in the Hamdan case, I've decided to update Article II, Section II of the U.S. Constitution to what current Supreme Court jurisprudence has changed it to. Article II. - The Executive Branch Section 2 - Presidential power The president only has the power the Supreme Court chooses to give him, […]
The Supreme Court ruled 5-3 today that al Qaeda is a signatory to the Geneva Conventions -- seriously. Terrorists who wear no uniform and purposefully target civilians are covered by the Geneva Conventions. What's troubling is that the Court did this in the face of the Detainee Treatment Act passed by the Congress in December. […]
A U.S. Marine recruiter who was "featured" in Michael Moore's "documentary" was killed in Iraq. The headline: 'Fahrenheit 9/11' Marine killed in Iraq Not included in this short wire story (a longer version is here) was an anecdote about Staff Sgt. Raymond J. Plouhar that brought a smile to my face. Raymond Plouhar said that […]
The Supreme Court yesterday let stand the vast majority of the Tom DeLay-engineered gerrymander of Texas. The GOP gerrymander had undone a Democrat gerrymander that resulted in Texas sending a Democrat majority to the House of Representatives in a state where nearly 60 percent of voters voted Republican and every statewide office was held by […]
Yep, that's what this whole New York Times disclosure of the Terrorist Finance Tracking Program is all about -- the stupidity of the American people. Today's San Diego Union-Tribune editorial page boldly steps forward and defends the the Times' disclosure of the program because -- well, apparently because journalists have to stick together. The Times […]
Yesterday a constitutional amendment that would give the Congress the power to ban flag desecration failed by a single vote. Good. Why? Because I'm lazy and it's a heck of a lot easier to spot the idiots by watching them burning the flag than it is to listen to what they're saying. Frankly, if Congress […]