TalkLeft also has this update on attempts to add more ‘mandatory minimums’ to the Federal Code. TChris notes: Bad laws often seek cover in “feel good” names. So it is with Defending America’s Most Vulnerable: Safe Access to Drug Treatment and Child Protection Act of 2004 (Bill No. HR 4547). Masquerading as a law that …
Archives for June 2004
CFR Fall-Out
My ire at those who grand-standed about the need for the god-awful McCain-Feingold CFR bill is well documented- it was and is a bad bill, and any restriction on political speech is hideous. I guess the usual suspects are finally getting to reap what they have sown: Michael Moore may be prevented from advertising his …
Coming to A Neighborhood Near You
This is just idiotic: A Democratic group crucial to John Kerry’s presidential campaign has paid felons – some convicted of sex offenses, assault and burglary – to conduct door-to-door voter registration drives in at least three election swing states. America Coming Together, contending that convicted criminals deserve a second chance in society, employs felons as …
Bloggers on the Inside
This Tacitus post is a must read.
Stupid Court cases
This court case was all about Henry Wasman and company having an opportunity to have the words “Cheney Sued” in print for several years, so this is no surprise: The Supreme Court refused Thursday to order the Bush administration to make public secret details of Vice President Dick Cheney’s energy task force, but kept the …
Jack Ryan
If the reports are true, this guy is a little off base: Jeri Ryan said her then-husband took her on three “surprise trips” in the spring of 1998 to New Orleans, New York and Paris, during which he took her to sex clubs. She said she refused to go in the first and went into …
The Media and The Words They Use
I have a real problem with the way the media is reporting the beheading of Nick Berg and the most recent victim, Kim Sun-il. According to this AP report: An Iraqi militant group has beheaded its South Korean hostage, Al-Jazeera television reported Tuesday. The pan-Arab station said it had received a videotape showing that Kim …