domestic affairs

Truly Bizarre Stories

This story, via Feministe, is truly bizarre:A DEFENDANT accused of forcing a prostitute at gunpoint to have sex with him and three other men got lucky, so to speak, last week.A Philadelphia...

When All You Have Is A Tax Cut, Everyone Looks Like Paris

In an amusing sign of the times, John Boehner promises to deliver a Republican answer to Democratic proposals for healthcare coverage. I don’t have any inside track on this but we can safely...

Domestic Surveillance

Imagine how amused I am watching Captain Ed and alleged libertarian McQ get upset about this story:Starting today, state Department of Revenue agents will begin stopping Tennessee motorists...

More Adventures In Oversight

Another batch of Sargeant Schutzes uncovered, this time at the FDA.In a report due to be released Friday, the inspector general of the Department of Health and Human Services, Daniel R. Levinson,...

Making It Up As They Go Along

Nothing in modern politics seems to defy the laws of physics more than the Rudolph Giuliani campaign for the Republican nomination. Watching a thrice-married serial adulterer who supports abortion...

Biblical Justice

I don’t like this:The federal appeals court in San Francisco yesterday upheld a death sentence from a jury that had consulted the Bible’s teachings on capital punishment.In a second...

More On Wiretapping

Thanks to many who responded to my request, particularly to commenter LITBMueller for this highly informed comment.Starting off, Marty Lederman has explained the limitations of the six-month...

Just In Case You Were Insufficiently Depressed

About the sad state of affairs in this country and what now passes as patriotism, head on over to Q and O and get a load of what Jon Henke has been dealing with lately. Jon linked to this outrageous...

Someone Please Explain This

Drunk driving is a bad thing. I feel bad for anyone who has lost a loved one to a drunk driver. But I can not tolerate the type of bedwetter hysteria that allows this sort of stupidity to...

The Crash?

Something that should get your attention:Stocks dropped sharply as soon as trading opened today after a French bank, BNP Paribas, suspended operations of three of its funds in the wake of turmoil...