Common Sense

So I can’t begin to understand all of the technical aspects of this story, but I am awed that a Republican would want to sue the president.
“We will submit legislation to the United States Senate which will…authorize the Congress to undertake judicial review of those signing statements with the view to having the president’s acts […]

That has got to be a catchy song. It was written by Farrell’s stalker, who was in the audience of The Tonight Show last week when he was set to appear and confronted him with copies of her self-published book Colin Farrell: A Dark Twisted Puppy.
Farrell’s asked for a restraining order to protect him and […]

I know this thanks to a blogger, Christine Axsmith, who wrote on the Intelink intranet at the CIA. I say wrote because she was just fired and her security clearance was revoked.
On July 13, after she posted her views on torture and the Geneva Conventions, her blog was taken down and her security badge was […]

Really, the jokes just write themselves.
Apparently you can go 10 years exposing yourself to passersby before the Poteet Police Department will bother to arrest you. I say that because the mayor of Poteet was recently arrested for gettin’ nekkid in front of the ladies, and the first time was in 1996.
Although authorities continued to be […]

Do you remember last week when the County Commissioners Court reached a compromise on the display of their resolution condemning lynching and racism. Commissioner Lester Gibson wanted to display the resolution next to a mural depiction of a noose in the rotunda of the courthouse, the rest of the court wanted to go back to […]

He’s letting the secret courts review the secret program to secretly spy on Americans. Sshh! Don’t tell anybody, it’s a secret.
If approved by Congress, the deal would put the court, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, in the unusual position of deciding whether the wiretapping program is a legitimate use of the president’s power to fight […]

You know, I was just thinking to myself the other day that I had not made fun of Robert Novak for quite some time. I haven’t even used the term ‘douchebag’ lately. And then he just drops back into my life by admitting that his confirming source in the outing of Valerie Plame was indeed […]

The saga continues. McLennan County Commissioner Lester Gibson has threatened to sue to get the unanimously adopted resolution apologizing for the lynchings of the past put up next to a depiction of Waco’s old hanging tree in a mural in the courthouse rotunda.
“That is certainly an option,” Gibson said after Tuesday’s commissioners’ meeting. “If they […]