- The Senate has been trying to determine whether or not to OK an AG nominee that thinks torture is OK and that the president can ignore laws that he feels may be unconstitutional.
- The Bush administration has floated the idea of keeping detainees in Guantanamo, et al. in captivity for the duration without due process.
- Political commentator Armstrong Williams got paid $240,000 to propogandize for the Bush administration. And he says that he's not the only one.
- According to Newsweek, the US military (that's the *good guys*) plans to train Iraqi "death squads" a la Central America circa Ollie North.
- The House Republicans were nearly set to gut their own ethics rules to ensure Tom Delay wouldn't get kicked out of his Majority Leader spot if/when he get indicted. They caved and only altered their rules a bit after getting razzed.
- Social Security is under attack. As a free market type, I lean towards economic self-governance. Unfortunately I don't trust this administration to make any SS change veer towards economic self-governance. Rather I see the goal as "how much money can we make here?" And by make, I mean steal.
- A bill has been floated in Virginia's House which would require "any woman who experiences “fetal death” without a doctor’s assistance to report this to the local law-enforcement agency within twelve hours of the miscarriage. Failure to do so is punishable as a Class 1 Misdemeanor."
Really, I want to comment on all of these issues. They just come too fast sometimes.
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