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It looks like at least one, unnamed House Democrat will be making an effort to turn the public's focus once again on the NSA surveillance program if Air Force Gen. Michael Hayden is named to succeed Porter Goss at the CIA. According to Time magazine, the anonymous Dem (and there's no reason given for granting […]

Rhode Island Rep. Patrick Kennedy admitted Friday afternoon to being a complete mess of a human being. Kennedy told reporters that he's addicted to painkillers and suffering from depression. Kennedy will be checking himself into the Mayo clinic -- for the second time in six months. Kennedy has a problem, and he certainly deserves our […]

The Senate Judiciary Committee next week will return to the job of getting President Bush's judicial nominees confirmed. First up will be Brett Kavanaugh, a well-qualified candidate who has become a Democrat target because A) he works for Bush and B) worked for independent counsel Kenneth Starr during the Whitewater investigation that led to President […]

First you had Rep. Cynthia McKinney slugging a Capitol police officer for daring to stop her after she bypassed a security checkpoint while not wearing the pin that identifies her as a member of Congress. Then, early this morning, Roll Call reports that Rep. Patrick Kennedy nearly hit a Capitol Police cruiser and instead smashed […]

This is just obscene.

National Review's Ramesh Ponnuru has a short post on The Corner pointing out the decision by the D.C. Circuit which allows terminally ill patients to use non-FDA approved drugs. I can't improve on Ponnuru's succinct take: "Right policy, wrong branch of government."

You know that whole "culture of corruption" thing has got to be getting pretty old. First you've got the Mollohan thing (D-W.Va.) and now you've got Rep. William Jefferson (D-La.). Federal authorities ratcheted up their case against Rep. William Jefferson, D-New Orleans, on Wednesday, when a Kentucky businessman admitted in court to paying more than […]

I had read this piece by Christopher Hitchens the other day but failed to link to it due to illness and overwork. (I've come down with a nasty cold and worked a minimum of 10.5 hours each of the last three days. At this point I was kinda hoping that I had contracted the Black […]

The jury in Alexandria, Va., couldn't come to a unanimous verdict on so-called 20th hijacker Zaccharias Moussaoui, so he will get life without the possibility of parole. I can live with this, but I have just one question: Does this mean he gets put in the general prison population? I know it's generally frowned upon […]

Michelle Malkin helpfully posted some pictures from Monday's May Day celebration (stinkin' commies). Some personal observations: It appears that the guys who usually do the landscaping around my condo complex had the day off. On the other hand, there was a guy doing landscaping at the 7-Eleven I stopped at Monday morning. One of my […]