That Ted Olson said this yesterday:

It is our position in this case that Proposition 8, as upheld by the California Supreme Court, denies federal constitutional rights under the equal protection and due process clauses of the constitution," Olson said. "The constitution protects individuals' basic rights that cannot be taken away by a vote. If the people of California had voted to ban interracial marriage, it would have been the responsibility of the courts to say that they cannot do that under the constitution. We believe that denying individuals in this category the right to lasting, loving relationships through marriage is a denial to them, on an impermissible basis, of the rights that the rest of us enjoy...I also personally believe that it is wrong for us to continue to deny rights to individuals on the basis of their sexual orientation."

That's former Bush Solicitor General Ted Olson. I can honestly say, I'm dumbfounded.

Joan Garry: Prop 8. Now what? The US Supreme Court?

"Based on claims made on your product's label, we have determined that your Cheerios Toasted Whole Grain Oat Cereal is promoted for conditions that cause it to be a drug," the FDA said in a letter to General Mills which was posted on the federal agency's website Tuesday.

I'm not sure which part of this is funnier. The FDA calling Cheerios a drug, or the fact that the way General Mills advertises it makes it fall into that category.

Which is this? Governmental overreach, or a straight slapdown on advertising claims overreach? I'm going to say mostly the latter. :)

Popular cereal is a drug, US food watchdog says

I mean they're, is it surprising that Barack Obama was elected and he goes around apologizing in every country he goes to, when people are spoon fed years in high school and college of anti-American history? I mean quite honestly I think people learn more from listening to Rush Limbaugh's show than they do in high school and college. And do you have a response?

Really. People learn more from listening to Rush than they do in high school and college. Anti-American history.

Seriously, I couldn't make this shit up. I'm not sure which one is closer, Germany in 1933 or Idiocracy. And no, that's not overstatement.

GOP Listening Tour Gives Jeb Bush Some Answers: Who Needs High School or College When You Can Listen to Rush Limbaugh | Video Cafe

When a woman reports a rape, her body is a crime scene. She is typically asked to undress over a large sheet of white paper to collect hairs or fibers, and then her body is examined with an ultraviolet light, photographed and thoroughly swabbed for the rapist’s DNA.

It’s a grueling and invasive process that can last four to six hours and produces a “rape kit” — which, it turns out, often sits around for months or years, unopened and untested.

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“If you’ve got stacks of physical evidence of a crime, and you’re not doing everything you can with the evidence, then you must be making a decision that this isn’t a very serious crime,” notes Polly Poskin, executive director of the Illinois Coalition Against Sexual Assault.

It’s what we might expect in Afghanistan, not in the United States.

Op-Ed Columnist - Is Rape Serious? - NYTimes.com

The World Health Organization has raised its pandemic alert for swine flu to the second highest level, meaning that it believes a global outbreak of the disease is imminent.

Fan? Shit. Shit? Fan. Stay cool, wash your hands, and the box office for X-Men and Star Trek is going to suck ass.

WHO raises swine flu alert to 'pandemic level 5' - Swine flu- msnbc.com

"I find it interesting that it was back in the 1970s that the swine flu broke out then under another Democrat president Jimmy Carter. And I'm not blaming this on President Obama, I just think it's an interesting coincidence."

You just can't make this shit up. Michelle? The last round of this was under Ford. I may be wrong, but I seem to remember Ford as a Republican from Grand Rapids, Michigan. Oh, I'm not wrong? Crazy+Stupid=Michelle Bachmann

Bachmann: 'Interesting coincidence' that Dems in power during swine flu outbreak

Just... wow...

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Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter will switch his party affiliation from Republican to Democrat and announced today that he will run in 2010 as a Democrat, according to a statement he released this morning.

This is an absolute earthquake. Keep an eye on Snowe.

UPDATE Snowe calls Specter switch devestating.

The Fix - Specter To Switch Parties

Defenders of these techniques have claimed that they got Abu Zubaydah to give up information leading to the capture of Ramzi bin al-Shibh, a top aide to Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, and Mr. Padilla. This is false. The information that led to Mr. Shibh’s capture came primarily from a different terrorist operative who was interviewed using traditional methods. As for Mr. Padilla, the dates just don’t add up: the harsh techniques were approved in the memo of August 2002, Mr. Padilla had been arrested that May.

And this is why we don't let go of the torture question. It doesn't work, has actively made the country less safe by re-splitting the cooperation between FBI and intelligence, has actively made the country less safe by becoming a recruiting poster, damaged our credibility internationally, and trashed our position as a human rights leader.

This isn't just a failure, it's a disaster of incredible proportion and we're going to be trying to clean it up for decades.

Op-Ed Contributor - My Tortured Decision - NYTimes.com

Wow. I think Shep Smith may be out of a job, I also think he's dead on. I realize the vid is on a lefty website, from watching Shep, he's a middle of the road, centered guy, and he's on the money. Go ahead and skip the comments, just watch the vid and you tell me. I'm with Shep.

Shepard Smith Uncensored: "We Are America, We Do Not F**king Torture!" (VIDEO)