While Pat Buchanan argues with FDL’s Spencer Ackerman about how we should “shmorture” the underpants bomber, Ackerman makes the obvious point that Omar Farouk Abdulmutallab has already been indicted in federal court for attempting to blow up Northwest Flight 253. But if you extend that out, the Obama Administration’s belief in the US criminal justice [...]

This is a few days old, but it appeared to have miraculously escaped the news cycle. It seems that after Parker Griffith left the Democrats, but before he drew half of North Alabama as an opponent, he stole a bunch of voter data from the state Democratic Party. A US House representative from Alabama took [...]

I’ve been trying to monitor some reactions from members of Congress and partisans on both sides of the aisle to gauge how President Obama’s “escalate so we can leave” strategy will go over. The responses are kind of interesting: • Jack Murtha spoke for many Democrats in expressing “nervousness” about the escalation and the strategy [...]