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It looks like those sneaky senators are trying to get the despicable broadcast flag into law by hiding it in an appropriations bill. To paraphrase Peter Sellers in "Murder by Death": "Broadcast flag like television set on honeymoon -- unnecessary."

Donald Luskin points out that New York Times columnist Paul Krugman's Friday column could've been his first-ever "crossover" column -- if only he had mentioned that those involved in Ohio's MDL scandal are Democrats. Instead, Krugman -- in a sin of omission -- makes it appear that Ohio Republicans are the state's big criminals. Quite […]

Volokh co-conspirator and the only person to gratuitously use my name in a newspaper column, David Kopel has a sensible suggestion on having a reasonable discussion on Guantanamo Bay. The more plausible analogy to Guantanamo is British interrogation of Irish Republican Army suspects in the early 1970s. Then, the British extracted confessions through "the five […]

Sen. Dick "U.S. troops are like Nazis" Durbin might find it enlightening to read this New York Times story which describes what torture really is -- and it doesn't involve Christina Aguilera. When marines [sic] burst in, one of the captives was lying under a stairwell, badly beaten. At first, they thought he was dead. […]

Just for the record, for those who think that those on the right go easy on those who hold somewhat sympathetic views, federal prosecutors are looking to throw the book at James Kopp. Kopp murdered abortionist Barnett Slepian. Now, federal prosecutors in Buffalo are pressing their charges against Mr. Kopp, among them a charge that […]

I just thought I'd share this tidbit from the July 4 issue of National Review: When criticized for suppressing religious freedom, China's Communist rulers sometimes claim that churches in all countries are required to register with their governments. Meanwhile, word escapes Jilin province that 600 worshippers in underground Christian churches there were recently arrested. Yes, […]

Sen. Dick Durbin has done a limited pullback on his slander of American troops. “More than 1700 American soldiers have been killed in Iraq and our country’s standing in the world community has been badly damaged by the prison abuses at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo. My statement in the Senate was critical of the policies […]

Today's Union-Tribune has some follow-up reporting on Republican Congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham that should've been in its first report -- and evidence continues to grow that Cunningham is on the take. A broad list of home sales during the approximate period of the sale and in the approximate geographic area ranges between $700,000 and $1.7 […]

What are the odds that "Weird Al" Yankovic has one of these?

Thanks to actor/reporter Sean Penn, I'm relieved to discover that the radical Muslim ruling minority in Iran isn't really serious about that "Death to America" thing. But he told a film student during a visit to Iran's Film Museum in Tehran on Monday that the "Death to America" slogan chanted each week at Friday Prayers […]