In Salon, Sidney Blumenthal calls Libby’s defense cynical, but doesn’t mention Bill Clinton’s lying under oath to a special prosecutor.  Nor does he mention the cynicism of the prosecutor’s selectivity in his charges.  Nor does he mention the comparative seriousness of what Sandy Burger did, and the lightness of his treatment.  I’m looking for an adjective to describe Sidney Blumenthal.  An earlier version held that Russert russerted that Libby had

Though to their credit, at least our newspapers are fighting it.  From “A needless distraction for police”: You probably shouldn’t smoke with your kids in the car. In fact, you probably shouldn’t smoke at all. But that doesn’t mean government should turn unhealthy habits into punishable offenses. Unhappily, that notion is beyond the grasp of at least one member of the Aurora City Council who is proposing an ordinance that

No, seriously.  Right here.  I know.  I’m stumped, too.

Q:  Why did the Neocon cross the road? a. To push over an old woman and take away her healthcare subsidies b. To beat those Dixie Chicks traitors with a tire iron c. Because, though he was really hungry for the blood of an innocent brown person, he decided to settle for some McNuggets and a medium Diet Coke d. THE MONIED JEWS TOLD HIM TOO! e. To burn down

Well, one of the posts has (surprisingly enough) veered off into questions about intelligence, warfighting, and preemption.  And, predictably enough, the conversation, in large part, reflects the fact that people have worn a lot of their comfortable, faded, broken-in arguments to the fight.  In general, there’s nothing wrong with that, but I’ve been thinking a bit over the last few days about stuff in general and have come to a

The New York Times coverage of the “Scooter” Libby trial has been fanciful more than once, but the paper would now like you to believe that “For Liberal Bloggers, Libby Trial Is Fun and Fodder.” Really? Jane Hamster was “damn near brokenhearted” at the end.  Jeralyn Merritt seems to think there’s a good chance Libby will be acquitted and reports that the obstruction of justice charging Libby with lying about

for John Derbyshire Your chocolates won’t make me love you. And your card, a blot of insincerity scratched in Colored ink, makes my teeth itch. So please — Give it a rest, would you?  And fetch me a Coors?

Ace is unimpressed with what he’s seen from the forthcoming FOXNews take on “The Daily Show,” ostensibly aimed at a more conservative audience than its Comedy Central counterpart.  Allah, too, is unimpressed—as are other blogosphere “humorists” I’ve heard from. On the other hand, from the little bit I’ve seen of it, I happen to think the show is GENIUS!  So, if any of those responsible for putting this thing on

Quoth Bush: “I can say with certainty that the Quds Force, a part of the Iranian government, has provided these sophisticated IEDs that have harmed our troops,” Bush said. “I do not know whether or not the Quds Force was ordered from the top echelons of government,” he said. In a follow up question, Bush was shown a picture of an orifice which, despite taking fifteen minutes to think about

Colorado Senate Bill 138, or the “Religious Bill of Rights,” is—as Vincent Carroll argues in the Rocky Mountain News — another in a long line of bureaucratic “solutions” to what are essentially First Amendment questions.  Still, as Carroll also notes: the meat of this measure mostly reinforces solid First Amendment rights, even if some districts and educators aren’t aware of it. Yes, students should be able to express personal religious