A millionaire who inflicted years of abuse on two Indonesian housekeepers held as virtual slaves at her Long Island mansion was sentenced today to 11 years in prison. Varsha Sabhnani, 46, was convicted with her husband in December on a 12-count federal indictment that included forced labor, conspiracy, involuntary servitude, and harboring aliens. Read the rest.

While the vast majority of the media and blogospheric attention was on the US Supreme Court’s landmark decision on gun rights,  the Court also decided an important campaign finance case today. In Davis v. Federal Election Commission (downloadable at SCOTUS Blog), the Court considered whether section 319 of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 — the so-called “millionaire’s amendment” of the McCain-Feingold law, which relaxes campaign finance limits for opponents of congressional

The establishment media usually plays up violence in Iraq, but they blacked out coverage of the bar brawl between CNN war reporter Michael Ware and civilian contractor Joe Burkett over the companionship of CBS newsbabe Lara Logan: The wife of Burkett, a US Embassy worker, claims the sultry 37-year-old correspondent seduced him while bullets flew overhead. This being Protein Wisdom, I must note the obvious “hotel journalism” and “foxhole” punchlines. (h/t JammieWearingFool.)

The Chicago Sun-Times reports Barack Obama’s response to Ralph Nader’s claim that Obama is “talking white” and  “wants to appeal to white guilt” : “Ralph Nader hadn’t been paying attention to my speeches, because all the issues that he talked about — whether it be predatory lending, the housing foreclosure crisis . . . I’ve devoted multiple speeches,” Obama said. “Ralph Nader is trying to get attention. I think it’s a

They caved after the Madrid bombings, so I guess this was the next step.

The Supreme Court has struck down the District of Columbia’s 32-year-old ban on handguns, ruling 5-4 that Americans have an individual right to own guns for self-defense and hunting — the Cort’s first major pronouncement on gun rights in US history. Lyle Denniston adds at SCOTUS Blog: Justice Scalia’s opinion stressed that the Court was not casting doubt on long-standing bans on carrying a concealed gun or on gun possession by felons or the mentally retarded,

This week, Barack Obama’s campaign has picked a fight with the largest supplier of oil and gas to the US — Canada. Jason Grumet, Obama’s senior energy adviser, told reporters it’s an “open question” whether oil produced from northern Alberta’s oil sands fits with the Democratic candidate’s energy plans, suggesting that there continues to be “unacceptably high carbon emissions” associated with production of the fuel. Obama and Grumet — both in the

Illegal immigration, ethnic violence, humanitarian crises, national security issues, cats and dogs living together –the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post and CNN provide just a sampling of the disaster of biblical proportions projected by US intelligence agencies. The “National Intelligence Assessment on the National Security Implications of Global Climate Change to 2030” was the subject of a joint hearing held by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the House

Move America Forward is conducting a live, online telethon tomorrow today (Thurdsay, June 26th) from 4pm to midnight Eastern in an effort to raise funds for the largest shipment of care packages to US troops in history. The show will be hosted by Melanie Morgan and Michelle Malkin, and feature all-star guests including Rush Limbaugh, Laura Ingraham, Sean Hannity, and many more. Bloggers and others with websites can support the