Am I the only one who thinks that this is an hilarious story?

Prosecutors can’t read Libby’s handwriting

Ex-Cheney chief of staff asked to decipher notes in Plame case

Talk about Keystone Kops.

Am I the only one who thinks that this is an hilarious story?

Prosecutors can’t read Libby’s handwriting

Ex-Cheney chief of staff asked to decipher notes in Plame case

Talk about Keystone Kops.

Am I the only one who thinks that this is an hilarious story?

Prosecutors can’t read Libby’s handwriting

Ex-Cheney chief of staff asked to decipher notes in Plame case

Talk about Keystone Kops.

Richard Epstein weighs in on the wiretap issue on the Op-Ed page of the Wall Street Journal with Executive Power on Steroids. While claiming to be for legal wiretaps, he is strongly against illegal ones:

The major danger with presidential surveillance does not lie in this particular overreaching of executive power. It’s what comes next. If President Bush can ignore FISA, then he can disregard a congressional prohibition against the use of nuclear force.

Perhaps too melodramatic to be convincing. When I did Oxford debate in high school, every plan from water quality to farm policy ended with nuclear war. But there are myriad ways that presidential powers could become tyrannical if a Jacksonian president took the law into his own hands. I may not like Jackson as chief magistrate, but he sure knew how to give a good speech.

Richard Epstein weighs in on the wiretap issue on the Op-Ed page of the Wall Street Journal with Executive Power on Steroids. While claiming to be for legal wiretaps, he is strongly against illegal ones:

The major danger with presidential surveillance does not lie in this particular overreaching of executive power. It’s what comes next. If President Bush can ignore FISA, then he can disregard a congressional prohibition against the use of nuclear force.

Perhaps too melodramatic to be convincing. When I did Oxford debate in high school, every plan from water quality to farm policy ended with nuclear war. But there are myriad ways that presidential powers could become tyrannical if a Jacksonian president took the law into his own hands. I may not like Jackson as chief magistrate, but he sure knew how to give a good speech.

Richard Epstein weighs in on the wiretap issue on the Op-Ed page of the Wall Street Journal with Executive Power on Steroids. While claiming to be for legal wiretaps, he is strongly against illegal ones:

The major danger with presidential surveillance does not lie in this particular overreaching of executive power. It’s what comes next. If President Bush can ignore FISA, then he can disregard a congressional prohibition against the use of nuclear force.

Perhaps too melodramatic to be convincing. When I did Oxford debate in high school, every plan from water quality to farm policy ended with nuclear war. But there are myriad ways that presidential powers could become tyrannical if a Jacksonian president took the law into his own hands. I may not like Jackson as chief magistrate, but he sure knew how to give a good speech.

I’ll bet that some Senators wish they’d been a little more reasonable about Senator Coburn’s medical practice. It was surely just one more reason to be unwilling to play ball (though I suspect that in fact it probably wouldn’t matter).

When Coburn disparaged an earmark for Seattle — $500,000 for a sculpture garden — Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., was scandalized: “We are not going to watch the senator pick out one project and make it into a whipping boy.” She invoked the code of comity: “I hope we do not go down the road deciding we know better than home state senators about the merits of the projects they bring to us.” And she warned of Armageddon: “I tell my colleagues, if we start cutting funding for individual projects, your project may be next.” But Coburn, who does not do earmarks, thinks Armageddon sounds like fun.

I hope he has lots of fun.

I’ll bet that some Senators wish they’d been a little more reasonable about Senator Coburn’s medical practice. It was surely just one more reason to be unwilling to play ball (though I suspect that in fact it probably wouldn’t matter).

When Coburn disparaged an earmark for Seattle — $500,000 for a sculpture garden — Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., was scandalized: “We are not going to watch the senator pick out one project and make it into a whipping boy.” She invoked the code of comity: “I hope we do not go down the road deciding we know better than home state senators about the merits of the projects they bring to us.” And she warned of Armageddon: “I tell my colleagues, if we start cutting funding for individual projects, your project may be next.” But Coburn, who does not do earmarks, thinks Armageddon sounds like fun.

I hope he has lots of fun.

I’ll bet that some Senators wish they’d been a little more reasonable about Senator Coburn’s medical practice. It was surely just one more reason to be unwilling to play ball (though I suspect that in fact it probably wouldn’t matter).

When Coburn disparaged an earmark for Seattle — $500,000 for a sculpture garden — Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., was scandalized: “We are not going to watch the senator pick out one project and make it into a whipping boy.” She invoked the code of comity: “I hope we do not go down the road deciding we know better than home state senators about the merits of the projects they bring to us.” And she warned of Armageddon: “I tell my colleagues, if we start cutting funding for individual projects, your project may be next.” But Coburn, who does not do earmarks, thinks Armageddon sounds like fun.

I hope he has lots of fun.

French winemakers are suffering the consequences of their government’s defense of Saddam, EU policies that keep the Euro high, and resting on their own laurels. There are too many good wines in the world now to expect to sell it just because it’s French:

Riot police will be on standby this week for clashes, expected to involve up to 16,000 winemakers. Many of the demonstrators feel they have nothing to lose, since up to half of them are expected to go to the wall in the next five years unless the French government – or the Europe Union – bails them out.

Critics say French wine producers have brought the crisis on themselves by arrogantly overproducing wines of indifferent quality that do not sell.

Last year Mrs Montosson did not sell a single drop from her 50-acre vineyard for eight months because she refused the price offered by her agent. “He offered me only half of what I’d got for my wine the year before,” she said. “I said it was too low and refused to sell. But afterwards the prices just fell lower and lower.”

It’s not all about the boycott, but that has to be a major factor.