James Taranto has a piece on the fingering of Richard Armitage as the original leaker of Valerie Plame’s identity, creating much furor from overheated leftybloggers but little of substance. Armitage was always on the short-list of Plame leakers, and it appears that his identity has been known to investigators from the beginning. One wonders why [...]
Rep. Katherine Harris, who is rapidly proving to be the GOP’s chief embarrassment has has once again put her foot firmly in her mouth by declaring that the separation of church and state is a “lie”: U.S. Rep. Katherine Harris told a religious journal that separation of church and state is “a lie” and God [...]
Sebastian Malaby has an interesting op-ed in The Washington Post on how the anti-Wal-Mart movement is taking over the Democratic Party. He argues that this kind of “dumb economic populism” is ultimately going to hurt the Democratic Party with the low-income to middle-class voters that they need to win. I tend to agree — despite [...]
Sen. Joe Biden has an op-ed in The Washington Post with his plan for dealing with sectarian strife in Iraq. He is correct in pointing out that while the insurgency has largely been crushed as an operational hazard in Iraq, the real trouble is with the massive rise in sectarian violence, especially in Baghdad. His [...]
The International Astronomical Union has officially said that Pluto is no longer a planet, meaning our solar system is down to eight planets. Which means that elementary school students get a slightly easier time in their science courses (except for Kansas, where the planets are considered to be tricks made by Satan to deceive children [...]
The Washington Post Offbeat column has a piece about a recent Eighth Circuit decision on a case involving a man driving through Nebraska with $124,700 in case contained in a cooler in the back seat of his car. The Eighth Circuit reversed an earlier finding for the defendant, one Emiliano Gomez Gonzolez, who saw his [...]
Ann Althouse has an excellent editorial on the NSA wiretapping decision and why it Judge Anna Diggs Taylor betrayed her position as federal judge. Althouse writes: Laypeople consuming early news reports may well have thought, “What a courageous judge!” and “It’s a good thing someone finally said that the president is not above the law.” [...]