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Yesterday, the Supreme Court heard arguments in the case of Boumediene v. Bush -- something that it shouldn't be doing in the first place. The case presents the court with the question of whether terrorists captured on foreign battlefields and held in foreign lands have the right to challenge their detention in U.S. courts. This […]

John Hawkins over at Right Wing News has compiled his Top 10 Daily Kos quotes for 2007. It's a strong showing, but I have faith that some creative Kossack can come up with something more odious in the final month of the year. If you follow the link, you've been given fair warning. These people […]

Christianity cannot be the basis for governing a nation. Unlike Islam, which has a model for law known as sharia, Christianity is based on having a personal relationship between the believer and God. Jesus didn't say anything about how to run a town, a city or an empire. It's one of the points Gregory Boyd […]

I use PCs at home. I use a Mac and PC at work. I've been saying for the better part of a decade that the computer is a tool, the operating system it uses is of little consequence. Having said all that -- I've reached the tipping point on those Mac vs. PC television commercials. […]

Those of you living in the San Diego area might have missed the announcement -- it was buried in business briefs in this morning's paper that the Union-Tribune like many other newspapers around the country, is trimming its newsroom staff. Unfortunately, as is often the case, if you want better reporting on a newspaper's woes, […]

I worked at The Daily World in Aberdeen, Wash., for about a year and a half in the mid-90s. The area is being battered by a storm the likes of which hasn't been seen in 40+ years. Personally, I'll take wildfires over the weather up there any day.

You'd think that five years after the wholesale failure of U.S. intelligence agencies (and those of the rest of the world) to determine the state of Iraq's WMD programs that their guesstimates would be viewed with a healthy dose of skepticism. I'm not sure that's what is happening. Rand Beers, who resigned from Bush's National […]

The New Republic this weekend finally came out with its investigation of fabulist Scott Thomas Beauchamp. It's long, and, sadly, TNR editor Franklin Foer buried the lede. When I last spoke with Beauchamp in early November, he continued to stand by his stories. Unfortunately, the standards of this magazine require more than that. And, in […]

Sen. Barbara "Couldn't think her way out of a cardboard box" Boxer has put a hold on former California Rep. James Rogan's nomination to a federal district judgeship because he was one of the impeachment managers against then-President Bill Clinton. Apparently, lying under oath to a grand jury isn't a high crime or misdemeanor, but […]

Bill Clinton is back in the news for telling another whopper -- and it's not about how big a fish he caught. As The New York Post points out: Bill Clinton has always been a stranger to the truth, but is it possible that he's never heard of Google? Apparently. How else to explain his […]