Following the first day of Alito hearings, why did I make a hasty switch from MSNBC to CNN? Well, it was fortuitous because I luckily caught Jack Cafferty grousing about his Number 1 target: The NSA surveillance on American...
Read MoreE-mail caffertyfile@cnn.com Crab Apple Jack Cafferty (the incarnation of Dennis the Menace’s “Mr. Wilson”) says the one question he wants the senators to ask Judge Alito is this: (Paraphrased) Is it against the...
Read MoreJuan Cole calls out the U.S. military for its assistance in arresting a reporter for the UK’s Guardian newspaper: US troops were used to arrest an Iraqi journalist working on a story for a British news organization about...
Read MoreOne issue trumps any other, including abortion: This week’s confirmation hearings of executive power adherent Samuel Alito may be our last real chance to safeguard the U.S. Constitution from “one-man rule,” as...
Read MoreSen Patrick Leahy (D-Vt), on C-Span’s Washington Journal, said the White House “was not interested” in giving him, a member of the Judiciary Committee, a three-hour meeting with SCOTUS nominee Samuel Alito. The...
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