The New York Times, Washington Post and other media outlets are going to see a serious cutback in leaks coming from government sources on the news coming out of the US Supreme Court: The Supreme Court today narrowed the First Amendment protections for public employees who reveal perceived wrongdoing they happen to observe in the […]

Compare SenselessBrenner’s rants about the Imperial Congress: Sensenbrenner also said he wanted to call Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and FBI Director Robert Mueller to testify about their justification for the unprecedented raid on the office of Rep. William Jefferson, the target of a bribery investigation. Sensenbrenner, a Wisconsin Republican, said at a hearing on the […]

Since I deal with tens of telemarketing calls a day from people who have all sorts of information on me and my family, not to mention all the mail we have to pitch from credit card and mortgage offers, I am truly dumbfounded by the resistance to give the Federal Government personal information in order […]

*** Update: Possibly three more rounded up (H/T reader Crosspatch *** *** Update: More lashing out by Zarqawi and Al Qaeda could be a sign of desperation by the insurgents: A parked car bomb hit a popular market in a Shiite area north of Baghdad on Tuesday, killing at least 25 people and wounding 65, […]

The obsession to deport illegal immigrants (see post below) is doing what I predicted would happen if we did attempt mass deportations – it is diverting our attention from real threats.  Ed Morrissey comments on a story I saw earlier that states large numbers of Al Qaeda are sitting just over our northern border: Canada’s […]

I have read all across the major conservative sites where people say we cannot have an comprehensive bill on immigration (i.e., expand the guest worker program and document the immigrant workers) because it is not where ‘the people’ are.  That’s a hoot.  It is were most of us our except the far right conservatives.  Check […]