I doubt John Paul Stevens will make it through Bush’s second term given his age, so the question has always been timing. There are good political arguments for announcing his retirement prior to the 2006 elections so that Democrats can try and take the Senate based on fear of losing another USSC seat (though, given […]

UPDATE III: This is why Michelle Malkin is a class act blogger. Though we disagree a tad on this subject, she has linked here to add a different angle to the debate. My hat is off to you (again) Michelle. UPDATE II: Sea 2 Sea has done the yeoman’s work on investigating and communicating the […]

As threatened when I started analyzing the Able Danger hearings I am summarizing what I believe are the key revelations coming from these hearings. There is a lot of information out there to digest. More than one person can process in a few days, so I expect to see more revelations as time goes by. […]

** updating this at the end today ** update: I am attempting to identify the big news using bold font. The first posts on this subject are Part I, Part II and Part III. As before, I am listening to part 2 of the hearings at QT Monster. As context I will use the post […]

Apparently I missed a Council Selection a few weeks back – so here it is! In the council category for the week of February 3rd the winner was Our Liberties Are Our Liberties, Even if, and Especially if, That Pisses Mohammed Off by New Sisyphus, with second place going to Guess What, Professor Cole? by […]

Tigerhawk as links to Mohamed emoticons (((:~{> I was going to do one myself until I saw someone beat me to it *-(((:~{>

** updates at the end ** update: I am highlighting what I think are important items with a bold font. I decided to start a fresh post as a slog on through these hearings. You may want to check out Part I (which has nothing in it really) and Part II (which takes us through […]

** Updates at the end ** I am going to predict the NY Times is going to rue the day they got the congressional investigation they so desperately wanted Leaders of the House Intelligence Committee said Thursday that they had agreed to open a Congressional inquiry prompted by the Bush administration’s domestic surveillance program. But […]

I had no idea John Loftus was such a blatant BS-er. Debbie Schlussel and others are pulling out of the Intelligence Summit this weekend because of the fraud John Loftus is and his role in leading this event. Schlussel has some very disturbing accounts about Loftus: My first experience with Mr. Loftus, in 2002–well before […]

Again, to all you judges I hold dear and respect, this is not aimed at judges generally. But this has to be one of the dumbest (and unconstitutional) moves I have seen (from Stop The ACLU): On Thursday, a federal judge decided that Americans’ safety and security takes a back-seat to a left-wing groups’ right […]