I went into the emergency room in January because of stomach pains. I was worried it might be appendicitis, because all the symptoms matched as far as I could tell, otherwise I would have made an appointment and waited ( Read more... )

In order to bolster her flagging campaign, Hillary Clinton is now pushing to have the Michigan and Florida delegates reinstated. The states had been stripped of their delegates by the DNC as punishment for pushing up their primaries. (The RNC did something similar, but only took half of its delegates away from Florida, rather than all of them ( Read more... )

If I were a Clinton supporter, I'd be angryIn contest after contest where she has lost, she has concocted reasons for why it's to be expected: she's the underdog there; a state with a large population of X race voters will only vote for a candidate also of X race; that state is a "Republican" state, and won't go to a Democrat anyway; or simply, ( Read more... )

For those not following the Presidential primaries (and even for those who are), February 5th is the day that a great many states will hold their primaries. The races are very close on all sides -- even with recent dropouts (e.g. Giuliani and Edwards) -- but I expect both parties will finally see a clear front-runner ( Read more... )

Last night was the (or rather my) second annual viewing of V for Vendetta. Now, I'm sure those who actually read it are still up in arms about any looseness of the translation, as it were, but it's amazing how relevant it still is. I mean, "Rendition" was something I heard about in the news in 2006, but was it a MOVIE a year ago? I think not ( Read more... )

Parts of the PATRIOT Act were declered unconstitutional (finally!), specifically one dealing with recent "legal" updates to the FISA court which allows the Executive branch to perform searches without (or prior to) a court instruction -- which flies in the face of the 4th amendment protecting against unreasonable search and seizures ( Read more... )

Gonzales resigns.

~Sean

I'm seriously trying NOT to proselytize as much on here, but I've been sitting on this one all day and can't take it any more.

Bush popped up this morning saying that Congress can't leave for their summer recess until they draft a bill that he "can sign ( Read more... )

[Gonzales Lies Again (Surprise Surprise!)]

In his Senate Judiciary Committee testimony Tuesday, Gonzales claimed that he had an emergency meeting with Congress on the eve that "other intelligence programs" were about to expire, which is what prompted him to talk to Ashcroft in the hospital. Congressional documents show that the meeting indeed ( Read more... )

Back in 2004, when he was still a White House counsel and really had no business in the Justice Department, Alberto Gonzales and Chief of Staff Andy Card decided it would be a good idea to talk shop with John Ashcroft -- doped up and incapacitated from gallbladder surgery as he was. Then Deputy Attorney General Comey described the episode an ( Read more... )