Testimony in the murder trial of Marine Cpl. Trent D. Thomas at Camp Pendleton provides a very grim and vicious view of how U.S. Marines are conducting their anti-insurgency activities in Iraq. If true, you can pretty much bet that we won't ever be "winning the hearts and minds" of the Iraqis whose hearts and heads we are cavalierly beating and shooting.

The liberal blog Political Fretwork noticed something funny about President Bush's press conference yesterday that has escaped the attention of the media: The president called the insurgents in Iraq his constituents.

Unless you really follow the field of education religiously, you probably missed last month's proud announcement that the federal Education Department had awarded over a quarter of a billion dollars to ten states to "help create new charter schools and increase the school choices that parents have to provide to their children."

Tony Snow had a memorable press conference on Monday, but it was memorable for all the wrong reasons. I guess it isn't easy being the information officer on the Titanic after the iceberg makes contact.

Even with my low opinion of President Bush, I did not expect him to give Lewis Libby a get-out-of-jail free card. The constitutional implications of the president freeing a White House official from the sentence doled out in a criminal case, when the crime involves the vice president and possibly even the president himself, couldn't be more clear.

If you need more proof that Fred Thompson worked as an abortion rights lobbyist in 1991, look no further than the answer he gave this weekend to a reporter's question. "I'd just say the flies get bigger in the summertime," Thompson said. "I guess the flies are buzzing."

So says James Fallows, author of "China Makes, The World Takes," a very lengthy account of life in China's new industrial belts in the July/August 2007 issue of The Atlantic. He thinks offshoring to China has helped both the U.S. and China so far, but watch out for the future. And having read the whole damn article three times, I think he's being remarkably optimistic. I think the picture he paints is about as scary as it gets.

"We now know full well what his beliefs are" is what Andrew Sullivan wrote about President Bush in his The Daily Dish blog about the President's decision today to commute Scooter Libby's entire prison sentence.

As the two preceding posts probably already told you, this has been one dismal damn Supreme Court term.

The Supreme Court today handed down a ruling that says students' free speech is not protected inside the school if it can be construed as dangerous to other children, such as promoting illegal drug use.

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