RedState’s Erick Erickson reports on yesterday’s RNC conference call between Ken Mehlman and a small group of conservative bloggers critical of the Miers nomination (most of whom remain unswayed even after Mehlman’s GOP charm offensive). Here’s the part that caught my eye: […] Mehlman call did have one interesting tidbit that tickled my legal ears. In the beginning, Mehlman said we could learn about Miers from what she had done

“…So I told Schwarzenegger’s people, ‘California is suffering each day as its law enforcement, corrections and firefighters are called to a war in Iraq, which does not protect the people of California, leaving the state in a weakened position. California tax dollars are also disproportionately spent on this war. California men and women are killed and maimed in this war, and their families are left in ruins, as I too

And you all thought I was kidding about the Oktoberfest clippers… Profile here.

From the Telegraph UK: The European Council’s commissioner for human rights has described conditions in the prison in France’s most august court building as the worst he has seen. Alvaro Gil-Robles said the cells in the historic Palais de Justice in Paris were squalid and inhumane. Describing them as “dungeons”, he said: “It is incredible that people are imprisoned in such conditions, without ventilation and without natural light. I have