Sen. Chris Dodd’s threatened old school filibuster forced Sen. Harry Reid to delay consideration of the Senate FISA-amending bill containing telecom immunity, so we are cheated of Sens. Dodd and Russ Feingold filling C-SPAN 2 with their dramatic readings of Ellers McEllerson’s How Would An Expatriate Overreact? until January 2008. For some reason, the left side of the blogosphere is delighted with this turn of events, with Crooks & Liars hooting in delight

A woman sentenced to prison and a public lashing after being gang-raped has been pardoned by the Saudi monarch in a case that sparked an international outcry, including rare criticism from the United States, the kingdom’s top ally.The woman, known only as “the Girl of Qatif,” was convicted of violating Saudi Arabia’s strict Islamic laws against mixing of the sexes because she was in a car with a man she

Chicago Bears Running Back Adrian Peterson (28) vs. Minnesota Vikings Running Back Adrian Peterson (29).  I look forward to many years of Adrian Peterson vs. Adrian Peterson NFC North battles.

At Facebook:Agent Bedhead is hoping her home internet and power will be back soon.    Dan Collins11:51am Dec 10th Did you get hit?     Agent BedheadToday at 7:04pm Yep. That’s why I’m at Panera Bread using their slow as hell wifi…..Hopefully, power will be back on soon. That’s a pretty long power outage. 

Earlier today, I noted in passing that there is a reason why Hillary Clinton does not get portrayed in the media as ”straight-talker” or someone you’d “want to have a beer with” or an apolitical “maverick” with “folksy charm.” Now it appears that Hillary really wants to have a beer with you: New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, trying to warm up an image some voters perceive as cold, starts a

Sen. Hillary Cinton has hit a slump in her presidential campaign, so Media Matters (the so-called media watchdog Hillary claims to have helped start) is whining that her “inevitability” was partially a creation of the media: Many in the media certainly seemed to be building Clinton up prior to the Philadelphia debate — though it should be noted that they were doing so strictly in a horse-race context. Clinton wasn’t getting the kind of