From the Washington Post: The conservative uprising against President Bush escalated yesterday as Republican activists angry over his nomination of White House counsel Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court confronted the president’s envoys during a pair of tense closed-door meetings. A day after Bush publicly beseeched skeptical supporters to trust his judgment on Miers, a succession of prominent conservative leaders told his representatives that they did not. Over the course

Why fight it?  If you can’t concentrate, you can’t concentrate.  Go.  Eat a Pop-tart or something.  The internet isn’t going anywhere.

From Reuters: The federal prosecutor investigating who leaked the identity of a CIA operative is expected to signal within days whether he intends to bring indictments in the case, legal sources close to the investigation said on Wednesday. As a first step, prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald was expected to notify officials by letter if they have become targets, said the lawyers, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity

…let me put it this way:  were my mustache to wrestle Bolton’s mustache for the WWE championship, MY mustache would be the one in the red white and blue tights leaping off the top rope and crushing Bolton’s hoary little lip fleece with a metal folding chair…

From the Washington Post: Five weeks after Hurricane Katrina laid waste to New Orleans, some local, state and federal officials have come to believe that exaggerations of mayhem by officials and rumors repeated uncritically in the news media helped slow the response to the disaster and tarnish the image of many of its victims. Claims of widespread looting, gunfire directed at helicopters and rescuers, homicides, and rapes, including those of

1.  Thanks so much to Trevor Smith, for Michael Ritchie’s Survivors.  I love Walter Matthau, and I even like Robin Williams in this flick (probably because he was almost certainly abusing coke and not trying for an Oscar).  And thanks, too, to Todd Day, for Season 2 of “Reno 911.” I loved the first season, so I suspect I’ll like this one, as well. 2.  In other DVD news, I

This whole idea of personal autonomy—I don’t think most conservatives hold that point of view.  Some do.  They have this idea that people should be left alone to do whatever they want to do, that government should keep our taxes down, keep regulation low, that we shouldn’t get involved in the bedroom, that we shouldn’t get involved in cultural issues, people should be able to do whatever they want.  Well,

From the Austin American-Statesman: A Travis County grand jury last week refused to indict former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay as prosecutors raced to salvage their felony case against the Sugar Land Republican. In a written statement Tuesday, Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle acknowledged that prosecutors presented their case to three grand juries — not just the two they had discussed — and one grand jury refused to

From The Washington Times: Iran’s new president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has placed the military firmly in control of his nation’s nuclear program, undercutting his government’s claim that the program is intended for civilian use, according to a leading opposition group. Leaders of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the force created specifically to defend the 1979 Islamic revolution, now dominate Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, the country’s top foreign policy-making body