Rep. Jim McDermott calls wiretap ruling against him a “victory for the First Amendment”
File this under “he said what?” Via The Hill:
Hsu indicted
Read it and weep, Hillary.
Romney’s “Willie Horton” moment?
The discussions are heating up in the blogosphere and elsewhere regarding a story printed in today’s Boston Herald regarding a Romney-appointed judge who released a convicted murder who, after serving his sentence, was issued a warrant on a violent assault charge. After appealing his bail charge, the judge released him on “personal recognizance,” only to see him turn around and commit a double murder:
Why is the Bush administration bowing to an international court in a brutal double rape/murder case?
Those of you who are long time readers of this blog know I have defended the the President on issues many conservatives have felt like there was no defending Bush on – most noteably, the illegal immigration issue, but there have been others, too, like the UAE port deal. On another controversial issue, the Harriet Miers Supreme Court nomination, I didn’t support the President but I didn’t come down too harshly on him, either. My view of the President has generally always been that even though he sometimes may be wrongheaded about things, I believe his heart is always in the right place – as much as it can be for a politician. I don’t look at him as being a cold and calcuating individual, as I did Bill Clinton. When he advocates for something, or lobbies against it, I believe he’s got solid reasons for doing so.
In spite of judge’s ruling, Craig won’t resign
Even though he pledged back at the end of August that he would resign from the Senate, effective 9/30, and in spite of a judge’s ruling yesterday that Craig will not be allowed to withdraw his guilty plea to the charge of disorderly conduct, the Idaho Senator is now refusing to resign.