Even Fox News admits that $140 million budget item for "volcano monitoring" Bobby Jindal pooh-poohed last night isn't what he claimed. That money is for the United States Geological Survey, which will use it for a variety of purposes -- none of them the sort of boondoggle Jindal evoked, with his sly...

According to an article in tomorrow’s New York Times, documents that the United States and British governments under the Bush, Blair, Obama and Brown administrations have gone to court to prevent from being released support the allegations of Binyam Mohamed, who has been held for seven years i...

Whatever else you might say about conservative Republicans in the United States Congress, they certainly have a knack for naming bills. Nobody wanted to vote against “The USA Patriot Act” or “The Protect America Act,” even though they subverted patriotism and failed to protec...

As I documented over at That’s My Congress earlier this month, Ron Paul makes a big fuss in his speeches over the General Welfare Clause of Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution. Article I, Section 8 reads: The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises,...

You’ve heard by now, if you’re paying attention, that the presidential administration of Barack Obama has pulled out the national security card to declare that a legal case brought on behalf of five victims of torture cannot proceed. In case you haven’t been paying attention, let m...

Maybe I've missed it around the blogosphere, but seeing as I have four lil nieces and nephews with more on the way, I'm very happy to have found the perfect War on Xmas gift for them, albeit a tad early this year. The reader reviews alone are worth the clickthru. Go for it, Correntians! Be creative-...

In comments yesterday in Washington, DC, Republican congressman Connie Mack revealed his use of telepathic mind ray technology in service of Homeland security functions: The men detained at Gitmo are terrorists. They seek to destroy our way of life, and have committed some of the most reprehensible ...

Surely it should have dawned on Senator John Cornyn Tuesday that there’s a new regime in town and that Barack Hussein Obama will not tolerate torture. Surely he hard this section in Barack Obama’s Inaugural Address: As for our common defense, we reject as false the choice between our saf...

Keith Olbermann’s Countdown broke the story last night, with Russell Tice, former NSA analyst, stating explicitly that the Bush Administration (illegal) wiretap surveillance program was monitoring journalists. DailyKos has a good diary on the subject, but here’s the transcript of the Olb...

We have had years of Attorney Generals who won’t answer the question, “Is Waterboarding an act of torture?” Now Attorney General nominee Eric Holder has come out and said what is obvious: “Waterboarding is Torture.” In further confirmation testimony yesterday on the tre...