Sen. Russ Feingold's censure resolution for President Bush isn't getting much support from other people who actually have to win elections. Of course, it's a hit at the moonbat-left blogosphere, but stupid, futile gestures are the norm there. As Texas Sen. John Cornyn notes, Feingold's play for attention distracts from the serious issues: Democrat co-sponsors […]
I'm watching my Tivo'd broadcast of CNN's "Reliable Sources" from yesterday with Powerlineblog's John Hinderaker regarding the potential for criminal charges to be brought against The New York Times and The Washington Post for leaking of classified national security information -- the NSA surveillance program in the case of the Times and the once-secret detention […]
I've often been curious as to how The New York Times goes about selecting which letters to publish on its editorial page. Often the majority of the letters represent a decidedly (and at times extremely) left-wing worldview, but it's impossible to know if this is because the vast majority of the letters they receive are […]
There's a big brouhaha on Capitol Hill and in some corners of the blogosphere over the purchase of a British company that currently manages several U.S. ports by Dubai Ports World, based in the United Arab Emirates. Let me begin by saying that the politics of this are undoubtedly bad. Whether or not there is […]
The Jerusalem Post is reporting that the U.S. government has approached Georgia (the country, not the state) about using bases in that country should they be needed to prevent Iran from going nuclear. American officials have been quietly probing whether Georgia, situated just northwest of Iran, will be willing to allow Washington to use its […]
I usually agree with George Will, but today's column isn't one of them. Will argues that the NSA surveillance program is "monarchical." The next time a president asks Congress to pass something akin to what Congress passed on Sept. 14, 2001 -- the Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) -- the resulting legislation might […]
It appears that a Washington Post article that portrays two of the top judges of the Federal Intelligence Surveillance Act Court as standing athwart the Bush administration's "illegal" NSA surveillance program may backfire. The piece describes how Judges Royce Lamberth and his successor, Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, barred the use of evidence gained by the NSA program […]
I didn't watch a whole much of the Senate Judiciary Committee's hearings with Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on the NSA surveillance program, but I read several of the wire stories and I've watched a couple of the cable news reports in addition to the usual blogging suspects. Having said that, I think there's a bit […]
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is scheduled to spend today in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee defending President Bush's foreign surveillance program. Democrats and selected Republicans on the committee get the opportunity to once again make fools out of themselves on C-SPAN. Gonzales has once again taken to the nation's editorial pages -- this time […]
I'm just getting to watching yesterday's State of the Union speech and I must confess that one moment struck me as ... odd. It is said that prior to the attacks of September the 11th, our government failed to connect the dots of the conspiracy. We now know that two of the hijackers in the […]