Month: December 2005

A FISA jurist appointed by the late Chief Justice William Rehnquist has quit the court in protest. And, in a related story, the New York Times is reporting that the eavesdropping-without-warrants operations “has captured...

cross-posted from Dembloggers and A Faerie’s Farthing There is a special place in hell for Senator Ted Stevens.  Preferably involving being stuck on an ice flow with starving polar bears or maybe waking every day...

A quick FYI just in from the NYT: Lobbyist Is Said to Discuss Plea and Testimony By ANNE E. KORNBLUT Published: December 21, 2005 WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 – Jack Abramoff, the Republican lobbyist under criminal investigation,...

Impeachable Offense!  We keep hearing it and finally the words are being said publicly on Capitol Hill. And not just by Democrats. This time he has hit the Senate and Congress below the belt. He contemptuously ignored the...

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