Bigotry suffers a blow
During the local public radio station’s coverage of the committee hearing, I heard a teen-age girl say much the same thing about her classmates. Attitudes can be slow to change. Convictions are even more intractable. Still, it’s a hopeful sign that the House Judiciary Committee failed to recommend passage of SB 959. […]

Both McKay and Iglesias made compelling cases, as have other prosecutors who’ve been fired, that the loss of their jobs had nothing to do with performance and everything to do with politics. Their reputations were simply viewed as expendable. Iglesias told Tim Russert that he went so far as to ask his superiors at the […]

I watched much of the hearing yesterday and the first thing that struck me was that the Bush administration has no regard for experience and integrity. There sat Sampson, 32 years old, the COS for the United States Attorney who’d had tried 1 criminal case and 1 civil case deciding the fate of our countries […]

  Rise of a Very “Loyal Bushie”
 
If you want to know what the career path of a “loyal Bushie” looks like, let me introduce you to J. Timothy Griffin, a Karl Rove protégé who was slipped into the post of U.S. Attorney in Little Rock, Arkansas, and now is at the center of the controversy over […]

With the good Senator up for re-election next year, he’ll have some splaining to do, because the base is non too happy with his vote or his explaination.
Sen. Mark Pryor broke ranks with Democrats on Tuesday to oppose a public timeline for withdrawing troops from Iraq, instead proposing that any pullout be kept secret.
Pryor, D-Ark., […]