Monthly Archives: January 2006

invoke 9/11 for the zillionth time: The Bush administration on Monday intensified its defense of a domestic surveillance program that supporters say protects against terrorism and critics say threatens civil liberties. During a Washington address, Air Force Gen. Michael Hayden, … Continue reading →

Roe fuss: “The supreme court has moved consistently to the right over the past 2 decades and it wouldn’t be just one man who would change the court. There’s already 4 people on the court who express hostility to Roe … Continue reading →

Common sense could’ve told us this: The immigrant day laborers who wait for work on street corners across the United States have families and attend church regularly, and the people who hire them are more likely to be individual homeowners … Continue reading →

a “radical” proposal for reforming DC….by Paul Begala & James Carville. Argh. That’s like having a domestic violence law written by Ike Turner. Still, I had to read it out of curiousity. Here it is, distilled down to bullet points: … Continue reading →

firewalled. This I’m actually surprised about for once… Google is defying a request by the US government to hand over data revealing what its users are searching for online. The Bush administration wants a list of requests entered into Google’s … Continue reading →

Bin-Laden tapes always seem to pop up when Republicans are in hot water over something? Osama bin Laden warned that his al Qaeda network is preparing new terrorist attacks in the United States but indicated the group was open to … Continue reading →

assisted-suicide in Oregon: The Supreme Court delivered a rebuff to the Bush administration over physician-assisted suicide today, rejecting a Justice Department effort to bar doctors in Oregon from helping terminally ill patients end their lives under a 1994 state law. … Continue reading →

At first the guy seemed like a wash — obviously not what I would personally prefer, but not bad enough to warrant active opposition. But I must say, anyone whose conscience allows them to slip around their words to the … Continue reading →

Jon Henke of QandO comments: The entry of Congressman John Shadegg into the race for Majority Leader is, I think, a notable moment. Notable, because, as Below the Beltway notes, Shadegg is a member of the Republican Liberty Caucus. [RLC]…. … Continue reading →

bark about… The US moved yesterday to stop Spain completing a $2billion arms sale to one of America’s bitterest critics in the Americas, Venezuela’s president Hugo Ch