Here’s what Lindsey Graham said about attempted car bombing suspect Faisal Shahzad being read his rights: Miranda warnings are counterproductive in my view,” Graham said at a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing Wednesday. “The homeland is part of the battlefield. So this idea that you get to America, the rules dramatically change, […]

Here is an article appearing on CBS right now: Faisal Shahzad on Homeland Security List Since 1999 That is one amazing feat, since DHS wasn’t formed until November of 2002. So how was Shahzad on a list of a department three years prior to that department being formed? (h/t GottaLaff)

The Republicans have been working hard to try and blame Obama for the oil spill. As I pointed out yesterday, Obama does deserve a little blame for not having booms on hand, but that blame also needs to be shared with Bush and Clinton, since none of them prepared to follow a 1994 plan on […]

An ad by Dan Fanelli, the Republican running against Alan Grayson, shows a dark skinned man and uses it to promote racial profiling: For a party trying to appear as not being racist, the GOP sure is doing a crappy job. I hope Grayson decides to go after this ad, in a way that only […]

Michael Bloomberg has a post up at the Huffington Post that addresses something very important in this age of terror: It’s amazing but true: we can prevent terror suspects from boarding an airplane, but the FBI doesn’t have the power to block them from buying dynamite or an AK-47. I believe strongly that they should. […]

Here is an article conservatives are using today to point to Obama being at fault for the oil spill: If U.S. officials had followed up on a 1994 response plan for a major Gulf oil spill, it is possible that the spill could have been kept under control and far from land. The problem: The […]

NBC and the AP are both reporting the House Appropriations Committee Chairman, David Obey (D-WI) will retire this year.

As I pointed out yesterday, one of the more interesting primaries held yesterday was that in the OH-02 Democratic primary, where the winner will face Jean Schmidt in the fall. The race gained national attention last week when candidate David Krikorian told a group of people that Yalamanchili couldn’t win any elections because of his […]

Last night John Boehner won his primary with 85% of the vote. A win for Boehner was all but guaranteed, but what makes it interesting is that the two challengers Boehner faced gained a cumulated total of 15% of the votes. These were two people who essentially did no campaigning at all and in a […]

As many know I am a Twitter freak. What’s really interesting is the insight you can gain into a person in 140 characters or less. Take Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA): Interesting how he has these concerns today. He claims they have been on MMS for “years”, but I wonder if he tried this push 4 […]