It’s dead:
“WASHINGTON - A White House-backed bill revamping U.S. immigration laws stalled in the Senate Thursday, handing President Bush a major legislative setback.
The sharply divided Senate refused to limit debate on the fragile compromise hammered out by a bipartisan group of senators and the White House. As a result, the legislation will be set aside [...]

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Voters of Pennsylvania need to recall Senator Arlen Specter now.
“A bill that would allow terrorism suspects access to federal courts to challenge their imprisonment at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday.
The committee, on an 11-8 vote, advanced a bill that would allow prisoners to protest their detentions by the [...]

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William Otis in today’s Washington Post suggests that the shocking sentence of Lewis Libby should be commuted by the President. That would allow Libby to proceed with his appeal without serving jail time. Make it the same sentence that Berger got for more obviously obstructive of justice ¬†behavior respecting classified material.
I disagree with the author [...]

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Apparently, it’s official, Fred Thompson is running for President.
Here is his website.

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Perhaps not yet, but it’s on life support.
“A fragile compromise that would legalize millions of unlawful immigrants risks coming unraveled after the Senate voted early Thursday to place a five-year limit on a program meant to provide U.S. employers with 200,000 temporary foreign workers annually.
The 49-48 vote came two weeks after the Senate, also by [...]

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It drives the left nuts. Today the Washington Post tries again to tell us that a Vice President of United States actually thinking and working is a travesty.
“Vice President Cheney told Justice Department officials that he disagreed with their objections to a secret surveillance program during a high-level White House meeting in March 2004, [...]

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