According to the Washington Post: The Bush administration has told a federal judge that terrorism suspects held in secret CIA prisons should not be allowed to reveal details of the “alternative interrogation methods” that their captors used to get them to talk. … Kathleen Blomquist, a Justice Department spokeswoman, said yesterday that details of the…
Op-Ed Blog
I Hope Kerry Refuses to Apologize
This thing with John Kerry and his alleged disrespect for American troops is ridiculous. Here’s what he said: “You know, education — if you make the most of it, you study hard and you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don’t, you get stuck…
Judges Shouldn’t Be “Lifers”
Federal Judge James Munley has temporarily denied Hazelton, PA, the right to enforce a new local law that would: Fine landlords found to be renting space to illegal aliens Close down businesses that hire them Allow legal employees to sue the businesses for employment lost during such a shutdown Sounds good to me. But says…
Jon Swift: Smarmy Enough to Make Me Ill
Jon Swift’s return fire to Rush Limbaugh is brilliant. And disgusting. This is feel-good intellectual superiority at its worst. Smarmy, it seems, is back in style thanks to W and Mark Foley. This is a super piece – tight, well-written, with just the right amount of sarc to make an audience feel clever. Too bad…
Peggy Noonan on the Election
Peggy Noonan of the Wall Street Journal says, among other things: Republicans, most of whom are conservative in at least general ways, and who endure the disadvantages of being conservative because they actually believe in ideas, in philosophy, in an understanding of the relation of man and the state, are still somewhat concussed. The conservative…
Save Hubble!
I think that NASA ought to make time to save the Hubble telescope. I’m disappointed in this country’s lack of vision as regards space exploration. Other than Bush’s vague gestures toward Mars, nothing of interest has been done or said in what seems like decades. Where is the replacement for the space shuttle? Where are…
Today’s Criminal Injustices
First, in moment of a staggering genius, the technical wizards at the Texas DPS have decided to track deported sex offenders after all. Andy Kahan, director of the crime victim’s office for Houston Mayor Bill White, had to ask the DPS to make the change after one such scumbag killed a Houston cop last month….
Lou Dobbs Thinks Illegal Immigration is Bad
Read all about it. I like this snippet: Illegal aliens are an important part of a one trillion-dollar underground economy in America, according to Barron’s. Illegal employers hire illegal aliens who pay little or no income taxes, and whose children are provided free schooling. Illegal aliens receive medical and social services, and over the past…
No Tag? Schools Are Idiots…
I was going to let pass the latest bit of stupidity on the part of some of our nation’s so-called institutes of learning, but Frank Deford’s silver-tongued skewering of overly sensitive school administrators made me mad all over again. This CNN article first caught my eye a week or so back. Here’s another article from…
Our Upcoming Election
Polimom writes about something that’s always gnawed at me. The polarized 2-party system we have in this country doesn’t allow enough candidates whose views are actually in alignment with their constituents rather than the party bosses to make it through the process. The surge in special interest money that drives this polarization hasn’t been effectively…