When Wisconsin Democrat Senator Russ Feingold chose as his star witness before the Senate Judiciary Committee disgraced Watergate lawyer John Dean, you knew that the censure resolution was a joke. They couldn't manage a Cass Sunstein, a Larry Tribe or any other prominent constitutional expert to make their case for them, they had to settle […]
Now that Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham is at Club Fed serving his time for corruption, the House of Representatives has two more wackos whose constituents should be ashamed for having elected them. First there was Baghdad Jim McDermott of Seattle who lost an appeals court case because he had illegally distributed an illegal tape-recording of […]
but my time would be more productively spent sorting grains of sand. According to John Hinderaker over at Powerline.com, The New York Times' account of a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing earlier this week "badly misled its readers." After reading the excerpts, I'd have to agree with Hinderaker. The FISA court judges make it pretty clear […]
Nobody like Nazis, especially Illinois Nazis. So, you may ask, what's worse than Nazis? Christians. Last weekend a bunch of Christian youth rallied in San Francisco against popular culture. More than 25,000 evangelical Christian youth landed Friday in San Francisco for a two-day rally at AT&T Park against "the virtue terrorism" of popular culture, and […]
Here are a few things I encourage you to check out as you do your Web-surfing today: John Hinderaker over at Powerline notes there are dueling versions of the testimony given by FISA Court judges with regard to the NSA surveillance program. I'll be curious to find out which one is accurate, because the stories […]
To say I've been disturbed by the recent protests against congressional efforts to tighten security on our southern border and make illegal immigration a felony instead of a misdemeanor would be an understatement. I've seen a plethora of photos from these protests and I'm shocked by the display of "patriotism." I use the scare quotes […]
I'm not a big fan on the "wall" that's supposedly in place between church and state in this country because it's most commonly used to try to silence religious people. On a similar note, when Republicans talk about their faith (or even when they're not) the anti-religious left goes ape with sinister conspiracy theories and […]
Early last week the Washington Post unveiled a conservative blog, "Red America," on its site authored by 24-year-old Ben Domenech. Domenech's previous experience consisted of writing for National Review magazine and he was one of the co-founders of the popular blog-community Redstate.org. By Friday, Domenech had resigned after it was discovered that he had committed […]
When the New York Times first exposed the NSA's terrorist surveillance program it was a day or two later that President Bush publicly confirmed the existence of the program and his approval of the program. I was working that day and saw the headline on the San Diego Union-Tribune's front page story on that issue […]
Editor & Publisher notices the Associated Press' "straw man story" and then does something sadly predictable when it comes to recounting conservatives' criticisms of the piece. Reaction also came from Loven's critics, such as Powerlineblog.org, the Minnesota-based site that has chronicled Loven going back to her coverage of the 2004 presidential election. Among its complaints […]