Spelling 101
I guess English teachers are not one of the new jobs she is talking about. Hat Tip: Half Done...
Saturday, June 2, 2007
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
The Democrat Presidential Primary
It's still almost a year until the first US Presidential primary, yet from all the media coverage about the candidates for the Democratic Party nomination, you would expect that it was only a few weeks away. Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama,...
Wednesday, November 8, 2006
The Mid Term Elections
The Mid Terms are almost over in the US and it appears to be bad news for the Republicans. They have definitely lost the House, with almost 30 seats picked up, giving them a significant majority. This will make Nancy...
Thursday, October 19, 2006
Republican Fiscal Discipline?
David Farrar has just posted a graph showing the significant increase in federal expenditure over the past four years, despite Republicans, normally the fiscally prudent party, holding the White House and majorities in both Houses of Congress. This is likely...
Tuesday, October 3, 2006
The Supreme Court Docket
The US Supreme Court begins its next term today, and as noted in the San Francisco Chronicle, will consider some contraversial issues this term. The most contraversial will probably be a review of an appeal against the Federal Partial Birth...
Monday, August 21, 2006
US Presidential Primaries
The next US Presidential Primaries are still almost 18 months away, but are gaining some attention now with the new rules just put in place by the Democratic party. Up until now, the Iowa caucus has always been first, followed...
Wednesday, August 9, 2006
Lieberman loses primary
Joe Lieberman has lost the Democrat primary for one of Connecticut's seats in the US Senate that is up for election in November, losing to Ned Lamont. However, he plans for register for the ballot as an independent tomorrow, creating...
Sunday, August 6, 2006
Democrat Primaries
There are a number of Democrat Primary elections this coming Tuesday, in preparation for the mid-term elections in November. One of the more interesting ones is for one of the Senate seats in Connecticut where incumbant Democrat Senator Joe Lieberman...
Tuesday, July 25, 2006
Signing Statements
There's an interesting situation developing in US over the use of signing statements by the President when signing bills into law. The US Constitution allows the President to either sign a bill into law, veto it in its entirety, or...
Sunday, July 16, 2006
Valerie Plum sues Cheney
Valerie Plum, the ex-CIA officer who was outed by members of the Bush administration, is now sueing the Vice President, and a number of senior White House officials. I'm not sure what she is claiming as a remedy (this doesn't...
Wednesday, July 12, 2006
The Congressional Raid
Unsurprisingly, the US federal judge who granted the initial search warrant of Congressman Jefferson's Capitol Hill office has refused to force the FBI to hand over the seized documents, and allowed them to start examining them. Jefferson had challenged this...
Friday, July 7, 2006
Same sex marriage rejected in two states
Two state supreme courts in the united states, the New York Court of Appeals and the Geogia Supreme Court, have rejected arguments for same-sex marriage. In Georgia, a recent ammendment to the state constitution was passed (by an overwhelming majority)...
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Sunday, July 2, 2006
New Jersey government shutdown
The New Jersey government has been partially shutdown after a budget impasse between the Governor and the Legislature. The proposed budget from the Governor has proposed an increased sales tax to meet a deficit of $4.5 billion. Apparently the legislature...
Sunday, June 11, 2006
Views on Same-Sex Marriage
Alasdair has asked me what my position is on same-sex marriage, given that I have blogged several times on the Federal Marriage Amendment (FMA) recently debated in the US Senate. I don't think the issue is as simple as whether...
Thursday, June 8, 2006
Senate rejects FMA
The US Senate has today rejected the Federal Marriage Ammendment, that would ban same-sex marriage in the United States. The vote was for cloture on the dabate, so that an up-or-down vote could take place shortly afterwards, and failed by...
Tuesday, June 6, 2006
Affirmative Action
The US Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case, deciding whether skin colour can be used as a factor when assiging children to public schools. This reopens the whole issue of affirmative action that has been in play since...
Monday, June 5, 2006
Same sex marriage in the US
Republican leaders have scheduled a vote in the Senate for sometime this week on the Federal Marriage Ammendment (FMA), which ammends the US constitution to prohibit same-sex marriage. The second clause of the ammendment is not as clear though. It...
Thursday, June 1, 2006
Hillary Clinton
There are further rumours that Hillary Clinton is planning to run for President in 2008. She has just kicked off her US Senate re-election campaign, but many commentators seem to think that her speech seemed to more directed towards the...
Monday, May 29, 2006
The Congressional Raid
Senate Majority Leader Bill First has come out in favour of the FBI raid of Congressman Jefferson's offices at the Capitol, saying that "nobody in government should be above the law, period". This is in contrast with the Speaker of...
Sunday, May 28, 2006
Gonzales threatened to resign
Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, his deputy, Paul J. McNulty, and FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III, indirectly threatened to resign if President Bush ordered them to return the documents seized from Congressman Jefferson's offices. All three strongly believed that...
Saturday, May 27, 2006
General Hayden confirmed as DCIA
The Senate has confirmed General Michael Hayden has the new Director of the Central Intelligence Agency by a 78-15 vote, giving him wide bipartisan support. Among those Democrats voting for his was the Ranking Member of the Senate Intelligence Committee,...
House leaders concede searches
The US House of Representative leaders have conceded that the FBI that have the right to search Congressial offices with a court-issued warrant. However, they have instructed House lawyers to come up with protocols for such a search within the...
Friday, May 26, 2006
Jefferson's Records Sealed
President Bush has ordered that all the records seized from Congressman Jefferson's Capitol office be selaed for 45 days, to allow time for the dispute between the Justice Deparment and Congress to be resolved. I think this is a good...
Thursday, May 25, 2006
The Congressial Raid
Further to my previous post about the FBI's raid on Congressman Jefferson's Capitol office last weekend, the Speaker of the House (Republican Dennis Hastert) and the Minority Leader (Democrat Nancy Pelosi) have issued a joint press statement saying that the...
Wednesday, May 24, 2006
Corruption and Separation of Powers
A Democratic congressman, William Jefferson, in the United States is currently under corruption by the FBI for his role in a corruption scandel. Apparently $90,000 in cash was found in his freezer at his home, along with additional evidence. He...
General Michael Hayden's confirmation process
General Michael Hayden, Bush's nominee for DCIA after Porter Goss' resignation, has been recommended for confirmation by the Senate Intelligence Committee by a vote of 12-3. The vote was held in secret (as was a substantial part of the confirmation...
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Wednesday, May 17, 2006
eBay vs. MercExchange
The US Supreme Court has just ruled on a high-profile patent case between online retailer eBay, and Patent Troll MercExchange, over eBay's "Buy Now" feature. They ruled that an injunction against further breaches of a patent does not automatically follow...
Wednesday, May 10, 2006
General Michael Hayden nominated to be DCIA
After Porter Goss' recent resignation as Directory of the Central Intelligence Agency (rumoured to be because he lost a power struggle with DNI John Negroponte), President Bush has nominated Air Force 4-star General Michael Hayden as his replacement.This could be...
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Tuesday, May 9, 2006
Moussaoui wants to withdraw guilty plea
Now that Moussaoui has avoided the death sentence for his role in the September 11 attacks, he has filed a motion to withdraw his guilty plea, saying he now has sufficient confidence in US justice system that he will get...
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Sunday, May 7, 2006
Google Sued for Allegedly Profiting from Child Porn
A Democrat representative from Long Island's Nassau County, Jeffrey Toback, has filed a lawsuit against Google for "facilitating deviant criminals in the procurement, transfer, and marketing of illicit and patently illegal material, including child pornography".The lawsuit seeks monetary damages and...
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DCIA Resigns
The Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Porter Goss, has resigned unexpectedly yesterday, with no replacement named as yet by US President George Bush. Reuters reports that there has apparently been a lot of displeasure with his leadership from within...
Wednesday, April 12, 2006
US Immigration
The US is currently having a number of protest marches about proposed immigration changes. These changes would make unlawfully entering the US or assisting an illegal migrant a felony offence, and would build a wall on parts of the Mexican...
Sunday, March 26, 2006
South Dakota's abortion law challenged
Unsurprisingly, South Dakota's new anti-abortion law is being challenged. It is not set to take effect until July 1, but a group called the South Dakota Campaign for Healthy Families has filed papers for a petition to force a referendum...
Tuesday, March 21, 2006
Patriot Act - the board game!
Graphix4change.com has created a board game called 'Patriot Act: The Home Version' available for download from their website.Fairly amusing - you start with civil liberties based on a randomly chosen citizenship, race, employment status, religion, and political affiliation, and then...
Tuesday, March 7, 2006
South Dakota enacts abortion law
South Dakota has now enacted a new abortion law, banning pretty much all abortions in the state. The Governor, Mike Rounds, signed the bill which passed the legislature last month. The new act is set to take effect from July.This...
Saturday, February 25, 2006
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