So I wake up, do my morning check of news media and blogs. I come to one of my favorite sites, Think Progress, and see a quote from Rep. Bill Young which appears in today’s Washington Post: Young said he wouldn’t be so mad if it were just Sheehan. “I totally disagree with everything she […]
Hmm does this really shock anyone? From this morning’s New York Times: The Bush administration is rebuffing requests from members of the Senate Judiciary Committee for its classified legal opinions on President Bush’s domestic spying program, setting up a confrontation in advance of a hearing scheduled for next week, administration and Congressional officials said Wednesday. […]
Well this is really a shocker and I don’t know how to read into it yet Alito, handling his first case, sided with inmate Michael Taylor, who had won a stay from an appeals court earlier in the evening. Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas supported lifting the stay, but […]
Jesus. They don’t even wait for the speech to get cold before yelling SIKE!!!!!!!
It was just reported on Air America. It should be an interesting case considering the differences in the way she was treated as compared to Rep. Young’s wife.
You may have read about the letter sent to the Washington Post from the Joint Chiefs in response to a cartoon. If not then head over to AMERICABlog for the details. I am not in total agreement on this issue. I believe in the freedom of speech and that the Joint Chiefs should also be […]
With all the talk of Google refusing to hand over search records to the government, here is a story to remind us of why Google is far superior to Yahoo. Shi Tao, a Chinese journalist, is serving a ten-year prison sentence in China for sending an email to the USA. He was accused of “illegally […]
Gov. Joe Manchin of West Virginia has just ordered all mines to cease operations pending safety checks. The order follows the death of two more miners today in separate incidents. It is nice to see Gov. Manchin take such a serious stance on this and make this order. I am sure there will be some […]
This just in from NBC: WASHINGTON – Charges against antiwar protester Cindy Sheehan, who was arrested after an incident involving a T-shirt she wore to the State of the Union address, will be dropped, officials told NBC News Wednesday. U.S. Capitol Police took Sheehan away in handcuffs and charged her with unlawful conduct, a misdemeanor, […]
Of course as Boing Boing has found out, some companies don’t like that policy. This kind of goes hand in hand with the Forbes article a couple of months ago attacking bloggers.