6th Curcuit Court Strikes Down Anna Diggs Taylor

Common sense kicks the ACLU's ass and puts a crooked, Jimmy Carter-appointed, liberal judge in her place:

A divided U.S. appeals court dismissed a challenge to the Bush administration's terrorist surveillance program, ruling that the American Civil Liberties Union and others lacked the legal right to sue over the spying.

The 2-1 decision today by the Cincinnati-based 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a lower court ruling that said the eavesdropping without court warrants violated the Constitution and federal law. The appeals panel directed the trial court judge to throw out the case.

The ACLU's suit is one of several in the federal court system relating to the National Security Agency program, which allowed the government to spy on terrorists while bypassing the judicial system. While President George W. Bush has argued that the surveillance is legal, he agreed in January to let a secret federal court oversee the spying.

Set up in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the Terrorist Surveillance Program generated controversy since it was publicly revealed in December 2005. Congressional Democrats have issued subpoenas to the administration seeking more information on the classified program.

It's simple: the only people who should be worried about the gov't listening to their conversations are terrorists. If you're not a terrorist, than yap away till your hearts content, or you get laryngitis, whichever comes first of course.

Will Joe Lieberman Vote GOP In '08?

YahooNews.com:

U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman, an independent who supports Democrats in Congress despite his backing of the Iraq war, said on Thursday he was not ruling out endorsing a Republican in the White House race.

The 2000 Democratic vice presidential candidate said he also wants to see if an independent enters the crowded field of 2008 presidential hopefuls.

"I'm going to chose whichever candidate that I think will do the best job for our country, regardless of the party affiliation of that candidate," the Connecticut senator told reporters in the state capital Hartford.

"I'm not going to get involved until after both parties have their presumptive nominees and, frankly, to see if there is a strong independent candidate," he said.

Lieberman was re-elected to a fourth Senate term in November as an independent in Connecticut after his support for the Iraq war cost him the backing of the Democratic Party. He continues to caucus with Democrats in the Senate.

Many Democrats last year abandoned Lieberman in favor of his Democratic rival, Ned Lamont, a millionaire and political outsider who ran on an anti-Iraq-war platform focused on public discontent over President George W. Bush's policies.

I say that Lieberman should vote whichever way his heart desires. But I can understand the struggle within: the party he loves has left him, dismissing with a wave all that he's achieved during his many years in the Senate as the Democratic party has become an immoral bastion of leftwing ideology run by MoveOn and funded by George Soros. Any wonder why I can't stand liberals. They spit in the face of people who stand on principles.

Al Gore: Global Warming First, Family Second

Well, at least the kid was driving in a hybrid:

The son of global warming guru Al Gore was arrested early yesterday on suspicion of possessing marijuana and prescription drugs after deputies pulled him over for speeding - going 100 miles an hour in an energy-saving Toyota Prius, authorities said.

Al Gore III, 24, was pulled over at about 2:15 a.m., Sheriff’s Department spokesman Jim Amormino said.

The deputies said they smelled pot smoke - a potential greenhouse gas - and searched the car. They found less than an ounce of marijuana along with Xanax, Valium, Vicodin and Adderall, which is used for attention deficit disorder, he said.

“He does not have a prescription for any of those drugs,” Amormino said.
Gore was being held in the men’s central jail in Santa Ana on $20,000 bail.
Kalee Kreider, a Gore spokeswoman, did not immediately return phone messages to The Associated Press yesterday.

The younger Gore was pulled over and arrested for pot possession in December 2003, in Bethesda, Md., while he was a student at Harvard University. He completed substance-abuse counseling as part of a pretrial diversion program to settle those charges.

Mitt Romney Quote of the Day!

"I think the Democrats have a very hard time talking about a setting of this nature. Bill Clinton as president handed out pardons like lollipops to his formers, to political friends, to people who have been contributors. It was outrageous and excessive."

- GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Democratic furor over President Bush's commutation of Scooter Libby's prison sentence

John Edwards The Hypocrite Part 2

The leader on the war on poverty and Mr. "Two Americas" poses for the cover of upscale fashion magazine "Men's Vogue". What a phony.

From NewsBusters:

For a magazine that seemed determined to pump up the Edwards campaign, describing Edwards as “the person who may shape our immediate future more than anyone in these pages is North Carolina's John Edwards...who just might be the boldest—and most refreshing—choice for 2008” and “a passionate advocate for rural America,” it strangely kicked off with a description that only reinforced Edwards' preening, very non-rural, metrosexual, hair-obsessed “Breck Girl” image:

The hair, up close, is peppered with tiny strands of blond. Chestnut brown and so finely trimmed, mellifluous, smooth, and feathery, it could almost be a weave, the Platonic ideal as imagined by the Hair Club for Men. Along with the piercing blue eyes, slashing V-shaped smile, and a shimmering burgundy shirt tucked into stonewashed Levi's resting low on the hips, the hair completes the man: John Edwards, a populist Adonis, a golden god of a Southern Democrat.

Shay Quote of the Day!

"Sen. Hillary Clinton still leads in the polls among the Democratic candidates, and has taken some black support away from Sen. Barack Obama. I don't get it. Sen. Obama is more liberal than Sen. Clinton, opposed the war in Iraq from the jump, and supports virtually everything - if not everything - that black liberals support. Yet there are black liberal leaders and rank-and-file black liberals who instead support Sen. Clinton and Sen. Edwards. It may be black liberals who wind up undermining this brotha's candidacy. Regarding the black leaders in question, could it be a crabs-in-the-barrel mentality fueled by jealousy over his popularity?"

- libertarian blogger Shay from Bookerrising on the race between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama for the Democratic Presidential ticket in '08

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