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President Bush announced today that he's commuting I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby's sentence. Libby will still have to pay a $250,000 fine and serve two years probation, but will not serve any prison time. President Bush announced this controversial action on a Friday so it would get less scrutiny. Sorry, I was channeling my inner-lefty conspiracy […]

As of the writing of this blog post, Michael Moore's "crockumentary" SiCKO has a 91 percent positive rating over at RottenTomatoes.com. I'm not going to fatten Moore's wallet, because there's been more than enough actual reporting (as opposed to movie reviews) that exposes the film as fatally flawed. All of this means that it will […]

Ed Whelan over at National Review's Bench Memos blog takes a little slam at the Wall Street Journal editorial page. Et Tu, WSJ? [Ed Whelan] In the course of an otherwise intelligent discussion of the Supreme Court’s just-ended term, this house editorial in the weekend edition of the Wall Street Journal states: “In outlawing a […]

The top Catholic cleric in Zimbabwe, Archbishop Pius Ncube, is begging the Brits to invade the country and overthrow thug President Robert Mugabe. ZIMBABWE’S leading cleric has called on Britain to invade the country and topple President Robert Mugabe. Pius Ncube, the Archbishop of Bulawayo, warned that millions were facing death from famine, unable to […]

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 […]

Or do great minds think alike?

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 […]