Why it was important to keep the cat in the bag
… or to put it another way, why the NSA eavesdropping leak will harm our national security. Orin Kerr at The Volokh Conspiracy explains:
NFC Wildcard game: Panthers at the Giants
My Panthers are taking on the Giants today in Meadowlands Arena at 1PM EDT – the Panthers are 6-1 in their last seven road contests, but the Giants are 7-1 at home this year and are on the look strong thanks, in large part, to running back Tiki Barber and QB Eli Manning, both of whom have been very impressive this year.
Confirmed: Iraq was a terrorist training center
The media will keep you in the dark about this, but thanks to Stephen Hayes, we now know it’s been confirmed that Iraq was a terrorist training center, which trained at least 8,000 terrorists between 1999 and 2002 – some with ties to Al Qaeda. Hayes reports:
Tom DeLay to give up HML post
The AP is reporting that Rep. Tom DeLay will resign from his post as House Majority Leader:
Dial up hell
Right now, I’m having to connect to the Internet via a dial up connection. To make a long story long, I called my phone company on Wednesday to schedule the transfer of my phone line to my new address – with an effective date of January 20th. On Thursday evening when I came home, I noticed I could not connect to the Internet – I reset my DSL modem several times, and when I would try to pull up my browser, the Earthlink diagnostics page would come up the spot where it tested the connection to the carrier was coming up “failed”. So I picked up my phone to see if I had a dial tone. I didn’t. I called my phone company on my cell phone to find out what the problem was and come to find out, the lady who had set up my transfer for the 20th neglected to change the disconnect date from it’s default of the 5th to the 20th. So my phone was disconnected on Thursday.
Alito confirmation hearing promises to be a slugfest
Drudge has the details of how the Dems plan to hammer Alito during the confirmation hearings: