The NYT reports Rove wants Republicans to run on national security in 2006. That is an opening for Democrats, because the Republicans are weak on security right now:. Republicans were asleep at the switch on 9/11 and didn't protect us from … [Read more...]

The government has subpoenaed a week of search queries and a random list of a million Web addresses from Google to help its argument about how best to implement a 1998 anti-pornography law. The law has not yet come into force. Google has … [Read more...]

The OurTenWords website is an effort to define the Democratic Party's message in ten words or less and, just incidentally, to promote Tom Vilsack. On the one hand, this is a clever idea and a well produced website. On the other hand, our … [Read more...]

Yeah, when I lived in his district, I voted for Mike Capuano. Yeah, I wrote letters to him. Yeah, I got letters back, and I liked those letters. All in all, I like Mike Capuano. <a … [Read more...]

I think it's good that blogosphere heavy-hitters <a href="http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2006_01/008019.php">Kevin Drum and Josh Marshall are connecting the dots between Republican Abramoffism and special … [Read more...]

WaPo: "House GOP Leaders Unveil New Ethics Plan"And in other news, the oxymoron threat level has been raised to orange.  Meanwhile, foxes have unveiled new security measures for chicken coops, and the Wolfie Index reports gains in … [Read more...]

The NY Times reports that, by swamping the FBI with thousands of dead-end leads, the National Security Agency made it difficult for law enforcement to do its job in the months after 9/11:In the anxious months after the Sept. 11 attacks, the … [Read more...]

Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) said today on ABC's "This Week" that, if President Bush is found to have broken the law with respect to the secret NSA surveillance program, "impeachment is a remedy."Well, so it is!  And the hearings on the … [Read more...]

In his capacity as chair of the Republican Governors Association, Our Guv <a … [Read more...]

In response to a question from Schumer, Alito was unequivocal that the Constitution protects free speech, but said its protection of abortion was a matter of interpretation: damning the Roe doctrine  with faint praise. Separately, he … [Read more...]