Obama promises he won’t use signing statements … too much. But he doesn’t offer any way for us to know how much damage signing statements have already done.

Read with the close attention with which John Yoo refuses to read our Constitution, Yoo’s latest attempt at self-defense is even more pathetic.

Ten days after the election, I wrote what turned out to be, at the time, a somewhat controversial piece on the meaning of the hints by Obama that Hillary Clinton might be his Secretary of State, opining that it might portend a serious and affirmative play on middle east peace by the incoming Obama Administration. It is still in its infancy, but it appears that is proving true.

Despite a decent amount of negativity roiling around the socio-political scene lately, on a fine Saturday night right here in the ole USA, this gives me a lot of heart somehow:Then, with a scream of revving engines, it begins: a yellow Corvette and a red Mitsubishi go head to head, racing down the road at terrifying speeds, just inches apart.

All because Bush screwed up the economy so badly that another bank failed.

(And yes–it’s Saturday night. So let me have my stupid fun.)

The Judge deciding whether or not to dismiss the Jose Padilla lawsuit against John Yoo, having read the memos released earlier this week, doesn’t seem inclined to dismiss the suit.

People still seem to be missing the forest for the trees on last week’s al-Haramain activities.

We can discern a few details from the torture tape inventory the ACLU just got.

It seems that Fred Lebed, Roland Burris’ partner, may have been thinking of favors he could do to support Burris’ candidate to be Senator.

Three Republican-appointed judges have upheld most of the convictions of Governor Don Siegelman–while throwing out two counts of Mail Fraud. Their arguments aren’t very convincing.