Rejecting White House claims that the lawsuit, once again, "endangers national security" by exposing state secrets, a federal judge in San Francisco refused to dismiss the lawsuit against AT&T for breaching the privacy of its customers when it aided the NSA in obtaining AT&T customer communications.

It isn't just the good old U.S. government that has trouble with logic when defending itself from attacks and criticisms.  Just ask the Iranians.

Some president's make grand statements that history prove to have been prescient.  Some make grand statements that fade rapidly from memory because the grandness is thinly wrapped around a vacuum.  Others make....statements.

Seems web engine Yahoo took a beating in the stocks....

The Editor & Publisher site has several letters defending Ann Coulter's latest loony comments and attempt at Coulter-humor.

Ralph Reed has conceded defeat in his Republican primary race to become the party's candidate for lieutenant governor in Georgia.

I'm not going to waste a lot of time on this nonsense, but the fact is that the House today passed a bill that would deprive federal courts of the right to adjudicate the constitutionality of the Pledge of Allegiance.

President Bush today vetoed the legislation to widen research on stem cells,  a move many are reporting as a notable event simply because Bush hasn't vetoed anything before.  He may not have exercised his veto before, but his action today is anything but new.  It's perfectly consistent with his personal dislike of science, his personal desire to keep the Christian right happy, and his attempt to appear principled among the ruins of the least principled administration of my lifetime.

Politics sure is weird, isn't it?  Passionate speeches on the floor, asking everybody and their brother for money, smiling all the time (unless you're one of the "attack dog" office holders), reading polls, taking polls, reading polls, taking polls....changing your passionate position.

The Washington Post is carrying an AP story that Alberto Gonzalez has told Arlen Specter's Committee that it was George Bush himself who prevented the DOJ's Office of Preofessional Responsibility (OPR) from continuing their investigation into what role DOJ lawyers might have played in played in the domestic eavesdropping program.

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