Judge Anna Diggs Taylor, today, in her ruling that Chimpus Maximus’s NSA wiretap program is a clear violation of the Fourth Amendment.

Not that the Bushes will pay attention.  She may be a federal judge and all, but what school did her father go to?

… which didn’t stop a 12-year-old boy with no passport or ticket from getting on a plane.

A group of 21 former U.S. generals, diplomats, and national security officials, that’s who.  Including a former head of U.S. Central Command under Bush 41.

They’re releasing an open letter tomorrow explaining why they believe the Bush administration’s hard-line policies are just making the problems worse.

Given the way Israel’s bombing campaign probably left Hezbollah stronger than it was before… not too hard to understand.

Charges against the Michigan cell phone "terrorists" have been dismissed.

These state anti-terrorism should really start looking into Gold’s Gym and 24-Hour Fitness and the YMCA.  I hear there are large stockpiles of sports drinks in there.

Same logic.

No, of course Sen. George Allen didn’t mean to call that one not-quite-white audience member a macaca, a racial epithet meaning monkey.  Twice.

Although it’s still not quite clear what Allen actually meant to say.

Was it alpaca?

Chewbacca?

Or Boom-Chaka-Laka?

Senator Akaka?

Baraka?

Or a New Zealand Haka?

I’m sure one of those also explains why he told the darker-skinned man, who was born in Virginia and is thus at least as much an American as Allen, "welcome to America."

Allen wants to be president in 2008, btw.