Right now.  Watch on CSPAN live. I know some of you don’t like the idea of a Senator for President.  Or you’re upset about Paul’s vote on Hagel (despite his having blasted the GOP for maneuvering to ensure that he was passed). But this guy gets it.  I have some disagreements with the Senator, don’t get me wrong.  But he’s a leader.   And he’s a principled legal conservative /

The House, having issued a rule that disallows amendments and will hold discussion to one hour, is rushing to vote today on a continuing resolution deal that Boehner, Cantor, et al., have struck — again, behind the scenes, and with subsequent arm twisting of the party’s caucus, which includes an attempt to punish 30 conservative House members who have written a letter condemning any potential deal that doesn’t seek to

Because due process, naturally, is intended only for captured enemy combatants — Islamist terrorists, if I may be so gauche as to recall an outlawed descriptor for those who have as their stated mission to bring down the Great Satan, and all its hellish minions — not for colonialist pigs and fat, capitalist oppressors who live in a country that our new  Secretary of Defense agrees is the world’s bully,

Perhaps it’s because I was on the run from the cops, but I hadn’t heard about this until just now.  From Bloomberg: Doctors say they have cured an infant born with HIV for the first time by giving her a cocktail of drugs shortly after birth, a result that could point the way toward saving the lives of thousands more infected children. The baby, whose identity has been kept anonymous,

Yesterday was mostly uneventful, though as the snowstorm cleared, I was a bit surprised to find that I’d been hiding out not in the foothills as I’d thought, but rather in the parking lot of a Del Taco, with my makeshift lean-to propped up against the drive-thru window  — a relief, in a way, because that meant instead of flame-cooking over my small fire the pair of pigeons I’d shot,