This is as it should be. Especially:
"The FBI doesn't have the authority under the Brady law to use those records for criminal investigative purposes," Ashcroft replied.


I have an idea. Let's require background checks and registrations for journalists, writers, and televison news anchors. That way it's fair all the way around. We infringe upon one Constitutionally guaranteed right, we infringe upon them all. Already we fudge the lines a bit with the 4th Amendment, and the 10th is all but dead. Some want to abolish the 2nd. So, why not curtail the 1st as well?

This is what's wrong with America today. Nobody is willing to accept responsibility for their own mistakes. So, corporations, i. e., deep pockets, Big Fast-Food, are being sued for one man's gluttony. Not that he could possibly be responsible in this day and age for the crap he puts in his mouth. It's always someone else's fault for a man's failings. Maybe he was an abused child, maybe a girl dumped him, maybe the restaraunt executives tied him to a chair and force-fed him cheeseburgers and french fires, with a Diet Coke, please.

To paraphrase Alec Baldwin: if this doesn't ge thrown out of court, I'm moving to France.

What ever happened to tarring and feathering? Here's my candidate.

This is what the ICC is for: arresting and jailing Israelis. Of course, Europe and Asia wish to include Americans, too, but one country at a time, please, they are minimally staffed.

No mention is made of bringing the Palestinians to trial. I would argue that bombing civilians, not military targets, is the quintessential war crime, and the Palestinians are old pros at this, as has been demonstrated over the last two years quite clearly, right on CNN every few days.

Let's think this one through. You burn something, you get waste products. No way around this. Have they thought this through in California? Just how much more can we reduce pollution from gasoline engines? Probably not much without making vehicles out of paper and cellophane. Also, this gets me:

""The automakers have been crying wolf for many years now. Seatbelts, airbags, catalytic converters, I mean every single time there's been a major single advance in the technology they scream and yell. They testify before Congress that we're gonna go bankrupt if you do this to us. It couldn't be more false," said Russell Long, executive director of the Bluewater Group, a national environmental organization based in San Francisco."

It is true, and just smoke and mirrors from the environmental lobby. Since leaded gas was legislated out of existence and catalytic converters added, practically all the automakers in the US went out of business and were bought out, so now we are left with three: Ford, GM, and Chrysler. Of which Chrysler is now owned by a German corporation. Bye bye to: Lincoln, Mercury, Dodge, Jeep, AMC, Pontiac, Chevrolet, Oldsmobile, Buick, ..., what have I forgotten? Now all of these are names owned by the big three automakers. Little guys edged out by the high prices of the environmental lobby because they weren't able to compete on that level. And there has been little scientific research, let alone any evidence, that anything the mass hysteria lobby, ... er, environmental lobby is divining was, is, or will be happening.
Gee, fellas, what does examining sheep entrails tell you today?

More on the wonderful state of higher education in America. This is exactly the kind of place I want to send my kids, right?

Star Wars. This time, the star being battled over is our very own Sun. Sorry, I couldn't help the pun, it's in my nature.

CNN reports on a "customized" supercomputer. Well, not really customized, per se, if you use off-the-shelf parts. For more information, you can start with the Beowulf Project. Thumbing our noses at high-priced, proprietary computers.

The Army Corps of Engineers, at the direction of Congress, destroyed the Everglades in the 1960's. Today, Congress wishes to further the destruction in the name of restoring the Everglades to it's "natural" condition. At the expense of humans, of course. Henry Lamb has something to say about this.

Greenpeace is washing it's stained image? Nope, they're all wet.

I wouldn't be surprised if this a new species of squid. We actually know more about outer space than we do about inner space, also known as the sea. Oceanography is a truly fascinating subject, and something we should spend more time with, since 70% of the Earth is covered by water.

PC Patrol, on FoxNews.com, is always an entertaining read. Where do these comedians come up with this stuff? Really, now, this can't be real, can it? It's just too ridiculous.

Hello! Outside a Kennedy family reunion, Congress is the largest collection of millionaires in the country. Government service is supposed to be just that: service. With "recesses" that happen about as often as the full moon, I don't see them staying in the office long enough to rate full-time pay. This isn't a career people, it's service. Pay raises, bah!