Unqualified Offerings

By Mona

Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man [or party] soweth, that shall he [it] also reap.

Or, the GOP (largely cynically) courted the religious right for decades, and now that cohort is pouring out for Huckabee and he is leading in primary polls; Huckabee would almost certainly lose [...]

How much I love Dave Weigel’s campaignblogging for Hit & Run. Which is a ton. I love it a ton. Latest installment.

Radley Balko is trying (with help from his local Apple store) to put me off my MacBook lust.

By Mona
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What’s a libertarian to do? I don’t think HUAC should have been investigating Hollywood Communists, even tho many if not most whom they did grill or seek to grill — certainly the Hollywood 10 — were indeed Stalinists. Similarly, a part of me sympathizes with Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley’s investigations [...]

By Thoreau
Call your Senators and tell them to vote against the latest FISA atrocity.
As Greenwald notes, there were two bills passed by two different committees. Reid chose to bring the worse one to the floor, overruling a procedural hold that the Dodd tried to bring. I don’t know if the Dodd will be [...]

Something that doesn’t surprise me is the pattern of acquitals and mistrials in the so-called Seas of David case. Lyglenson Lemorin had moved the hell away from Miami months before the arrests and showed no signs of trying to maintain involvement with the “plot.” His indictment all by itself may have made some jurors suspicious [...]