Or maybe, it’s like a gruntitlement: The massive recovery package has stirred consternation among Republicans who say their ideas are not being adequately considered. But Democrats have a comfortable majority in the House and stressed that fact in a talk with reporters. “If there is somebody who is disgruntled, so be it. But we will have an overwhelming vote,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said. She and more than a half-dozen

From a story improbably datelined San Juan, Puerto Rico: Before he was released from Guantanamo, a Saudi detainee insisted he had only wanted to help refugees and was not a fighter. Now, as an al-Qaida field commander sporting a bandolier of bullets, he is threatening the United States and has been hailed by a militant Web site as a veteran guerrilla and “a fomenter of war.” I blame the System,

Why isn’t this guy’s name revealed in the article? The CIA’s station chief at its sensitive post in Algeria is under investigation by the U.S. Justice Department for allegedly raping at least two Muslim women who claim he laced their drinks with a knock-out drug, U.S. law enforcement sources tell ABC News. Officials say the 41-year old CIA officer, a convert to Islam, was ordered home by the U.S. Ambassador,

“If life is a bowl of cherries, where the fuck is my pie? “LIFE OWES ME SOME GODDAMNED PIE! AND I EXPECT IT, LIKE, YESTERDAY, PEOPLE!”

She was hotter when she was a salt buffalo.

First, the query: Is Protein Wisdom at all pertinent without Jeff here?  TSI, Darleen, JHoward, the folks at the Pub and I have done our best to keep the ball rolling while Jeff’s been gone, but nobody at PJM will link to us, so pariahish have we become.  What, apart from begging for links, can we do to raise the profile of the site and better serve the faithful audience?

 The Homeland Security Department still is requiring high-level approval before federal immigration agents can arrest fugitives, a rule quietly imposed by the Bush administration days before the election of Barack Obama, whose aunt has been living in the United States illegally. The unusual directive from the Homeland Security Department came amid concerns that such arrests might generate “negative media or congressional interest,” according to a newly disclosed federal document obtained

Every once in a while, a troll says something so breathtakingly lapidary in its stupidity, that it’s worth posting. At issue was the lack of party affiliation markers in articles about Portland Mayor Sam Adams’s sexual relations with an 18-year-old boy, which he lied about: Comment by parsnip on 1/26 @ 12:43 pm # Should the press right, say, David Petraeus, the Republican leader of military operations in Iraq and

Martin Luther to be exhumed, tried. Meanwhile, in Sweden. Thanks to Major John for the correction. I guess it will have to be an international tribunal. Europeans not opposed in theory to taking battlefield detainees who can be proved not to be terrorists

Whoa!  A politician with narcissistic personality disorder? Two years ago, Blagojevich famously implored voters to ask what his election rival was thinking, and short of putting the governor on a couch, it’s impossible to say what’s in his head. But from what he’s heard, seen and read, Bohlen and others say they believe Blagojevich may have a narcissistic personality disorder. Bohlen also has other sources of information, namely a daughter