The Washington Post, Friday, July 20, 2007; Page A01: Bush administration officials unveiled a bold new assertion of executive authority yesterday in the dispute over the firing of nine U.S. attorneys, saying that the Justice Department will never be allowed to pursue contempt charges initiated by Congress against White House officials once the president has invoked executive privilege. The reaction on the Left was swift.  Shawn Mullen at the misnamed Moderate

There’s a big brouhaha about pseudonymous correspondent “Scott Thomas’s” reports to TNR, and The Weekly Standard’s Michael Goldfarb has done a good job of documenting the latest potential Stephen Glass episode in Iraqi War coverage. Personally, I thought she was much more believeable in The English Patient. Some of the issues that have arisen regard the layout of vehicles and the measures they’re equipped with, the likelihood of soldiers resorting

Speaking of Ms Beyerstein (whose site I visited to check the spelling of her name for my previous post), here’s how she reacts to the full text of the executive order on torture, posted by Raw Story: In addition to banning torture and cruel and unusual interrogation techniques, the CIA is specifically prohibited from using a pair of additional techniques. First, the order explicitly bans, “sexual or sexually indecent acts

More “fluff right” posting, because what could these stories possibly have to do with conservative concerns, particularly regarding the structure of narrative? In short, an autistic boy’s pet is tortoise-napped and repeatedly slashed and stabbed by a neighborhood psycho, then thrown into brush behind their apartment complex. An anonymous phone call leads the mother and son to the location of the badly injured tortoise. Police catch the perp. The turtle

Two vibrating rings which can guide the wearer around a city via global positioning satellite (GPS) have been unveiled by a British designer at the Royal College of Art. The rings are the invention of Gail Knight, who developed them as a way of helping women feel safe in areas they are unfamiliar with. “I admit that, as it is rings, they’re obviously more attractive to women – and I’d