Given our esteemed host’s continuing interest in the Terrorist Surveillance Program and the recent wrangling over proposed amendments to FISA containing telecom immunity, I note the Democrats who punted the issue into 2008, would like to punt it into 2009: Faced with the growing likelihood that Congress will not meet a looming deadline to approve critical electronic-eavesdropping legislation, the Bush administration is working on a short-term fix–a temporary extension to

Via Memeorandum, we learn that Nevada’s state teachers union and six Las Vegas area residents are suing to make it harder for many members of the infuential Culinary Workers Union to caucus in Nevada.  The culinary union endorses Sen. Barack Obama; the teachers union has not endorsed, but top officials support Sen. Hillary Clinton.  The Politico links to the Vegas blogger who broke the story. Clinton has long maintained that the caucus

At the Politico, Jonathan Martin asks whether Mike Huckabee has a Catholic problem, presenting maps of Iowa from the PolySigh blog showing that Mitt Romney tended to best Huckabee in the more heavily Catholic counties.  Actually, Martin focuses on the estern border counties, but the same trend appears — albeit more weakly — on the western border. At InsideCatholic, Deal W. Hudson notes that Huckabee under-performed with Catholics again in New

Hasn’t this been going on for some time? Canadian women are being asked to bare their breasts online in a brazenly novel campaign meant to keep them cancer-free. Hundreds of women have already uploaded their images — including at least 20 breast cancer survivors who have had visible mastectomies. “This is a creative, different, bold, a bit in-your-face way of getting young women’s attention,” M.J. DeCouteau, executive director at Rethink Breast

of Jonah Goldberg, on Liberal Fascism:  What I thought was interesting about your definition of fascism was that nationalism seemed to be missing … Stanley Payne, whom you quote and say is “considered by many to be the leading living scholar of fascism,” in his definition of fascism, the first thing he says is that it’s “a form of revolutionary ultra-nationalism.” How does that fit with contemporary liberalism, which is

at Brooks Brothers. (h/t Reynolds) Get your best B&W footage of you and your chums cavorting in the Alps, and use Bill Staines’ “Happy Wanderer” as the sound track. 

The Left-on-Left attacks continue.  Author Jane Smiley reads Lawrence O’Donnell’s HuffPo post calling John Edwards a “loser” and is not pleased: I am fairly sure in my own mind that Karl Rove paid him to write that post. Indeed, she thought she would discover that O’Donnell was a Republican, which she does not even realize is hilarious, given his reputation as a shrieking moonbat.  Then again, Smiley is not known

by oldest trick in the book: Discussing the one-year anniversary of President Bush’s call for the “surge” on MSNBC’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann last night, Washington Post Pentagon reporter Thomas Ricks said that, “judged on the terms in which the president presented it, the surge has not worked.” “The purpose was to improve security, but to improve it to lead to a political breakthrough,” said Ricks. “And that political breakthrough has not

The Politico reports on Identity-Politics-A-Palooza: A series of comments from Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, her husband, and her supporters are spurring a racial backlash and adding a divisive edge to the presidential primary as the candidates head south to heavily African-American South Carolina. The comments, which ranged from the New York senator appearing to diminish the role of Martin Luther King Jr. in the civil rights movement — an aide later said

Errrrrrm: Twins who were separated at birth got married without realizing they were brother and sister, a lawmaker said, urging more information be provided on birth certificates for adopted children. A court annulled the British couple’s union after they discovered their true relationship, Lord David Alton said.”Everyone has a right to knowledge about their lineage, genealogy and identity. And if they don’t, then it will lead to cases of incest,”