You may recall the allegations that surfaced earlier this year regarding California senior Sen. Dianne Feinstein and charges that she may have used her position on a Senate subcommittee to benefit contractors in which her husband had a financial interest. (The Sunlight Foundation mounted a defense of Feinstein at the time noting that the senator […]
This week's Supreme Court ruling on student speech started to set some boundaries on what teens can and can't say on campus. For the record: Can't: "Bong Hits 4 Jesus." (According to the Supreme Court today) Can: A seventh-grader from Vermont was suspended for wearing a shirt that bore images of cocaine and a martini […]
CNN has been putting their summer interns to good use. This week, the interns' assignment was to contact all 100 U.S. Senators and ask for a list of their earmark requests. It should come as no surprise that all those politicians promising a more open government are full of sh hot air. Only six senators […]
The Senate's second attempt at comprehensive immigration reform died a particularly devastating death Thursday as Senators, seeing that the measure wouldn't reach the 60-vote threshold, abandoned the ship like illegal aliens running out of a Swift meat-packing plant. Something needs to be done about the millions of illegal immigrants in the United States -- but […]
In the name of understanding other religions, a Muslim visited the church of a blogger named Anwyn. Anwyn didn't let all the obfuscations, platitudes and assurances of goodwill toward others go unchallenged. So let me get this straight: Riots of thousands are the natural consequence of offensive newspaper cartoons, but a brutal murder is an […]
The Supreme Court ended its term today with a decision in a couple of closely watched cases involving public primary schools' efforts to achieve diversity. The Court ruled, 5-4, that having a goal of a "diverse student body" isn't sufficient reason to discriminate based on race. Of course, that's not how much of the media […]
Sorry, but I just had to read about what I missed and this jumped up an bit me. During her 23 days in jail, [Paris Hilton] said she meditated, read letters from fans, talked to other inmates through the vents, wrote in her journal and read the Bible, though she couldn't cite a favorite passage […]
You know about all those harmless, misunderstood, in-the-wrong-place-at-the-wrong-time, "alleged" jihadis that we've got down in Guantanamo Bay? We've released some of the ones that we believed were mistakenly captured. Unfortunately, we've been wrong. As early as 2004, the United States military was discovering that former Gitmo illegal enemy combatants had suckered the smartest intelligence officers […]