The case brought by Sen. Mike DeWine's former counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee, Robert Steinbuch, alleges that Cutler engaged in an invasion of his privacy in 2004 by publishing sexually explicit facts about a relationship with Steinbuch.

Tough shit. If you did it and the other person decides to blab, well that's just too damn bad. The right to privacy means no poking around. It does not mean that if someone you invited spills the beans you can sue then for "invasion of privacy" which I also seem to think isn't something the right wing like to recognize in the first place.

She didn't "invade" his privacy, he invited her into his "privacy" for a few drinks, invaded her "privacy" (or private parts) with his fleshy probe, and she decided to talk about it. Too bad. I guess the aides in Mike DeWine's office will be carrying NDA's to the bars. So much for getting laid dumbshits...

CNN.com - Judge OKs case against sex blog author - Apr 5, 2006

"He'll resign," a former senior DeLay aide said.

This is a good start...

Officials: DeLay Won't Seek Re-Election - Yahoo! News

But Hadley and other administration officials realized that it would be much more difficult to shield Bush from criticism for his statements regarding the aluminum tubes, for several reasons.

For one, Hadley's review concluded that Bush had been directly and repeatedly apprised of the deep rift within the intelligence community over whether Iraq wanted the high-strength aluminum tubes for a nuclear weapons program or for conventional weapons.

For another, the president and others in the administration had cited the aluminum tubes as the most compelling evidence that Saddam was determined to build a nuclear weapon -- even more than the allegations that he was attempting to purchase uranium.

This is called "Lying to Congress" and punishable by 5 years in a federal correctional institution. Go to jail. Go directly to Jail. Do not go to the G8 conference, do not collect $200,000 speaking fees.

NATIONAL JOURNAL: Insulating Bush (03/30/2006)

Congress ordered the review after a Knight Ridder investigation last year found that the Pentagon had paid $20 a piece for plastic ice cube trays that previously had cost 89 cents and $81 each for coffee makers that it bought for years for $29.

And here I thought the days of the $1500 hammer were passe! Silly me.

KR Washington Bureau | 03/29/2006 | Pentagon agency says `prime vendor' program remains sound

"Our faith has always been in direct conflict with the values of the world," DeLay said. "We are, after all, a society that provides abortion on demand, has killed millions of innocent children, degrades the institution of marriage, and all but treats Christianity like some second-rate superstition."

We don't treat Christianity like some second rate superstition, just your version of it which damns women with children they don't have any idea how to deal with, does everything it can to block both birth control and sex education, which might might prevent them from getting that way in the first place, thinks the world was created 6,000 years ago, ignores solid science like evolution, doesn't pay any attention to things like the environment (hey it's here for us to exploit right?) and treats the other billions of members of mankind like second rate people there to exploit (as demonstrated by your trip to the Marianas to okay their child labor sweatshops).

Your version of Christianity ranks right up there with breaking a mirror giving you 7 years of bad luck or that thing with spilling salt and tossing it over your shoulder. So it's not a second rate superstition, it's obviously a first rate superstition.

DeLay Says Justices 'Don't Get' Criticism - Yahoo! News

Critics point to Colorado, one of the first states to pass term limits in 1990. Diane Rees, a lobbyist for the past 30 years in Denver, said term limits there have resulted in a near total loss of institutional memory and an increase in power of staff and bureaucrats.

(channelling W for this one) "I don't think anyone predicted this." Actually, I think everyone opposed to limits expected exactly this

Impact of Term Limits in Nebraska Feared - Yahoo! News

Greenpeace says an IRS auditor told it that the PIW letter triggered the audit. The IRS won't say how it decided to audit Greenpeace.

What is clear is where PIW has gotten a lot of its funding: Exxon Mobil Corp., the giant oil company that has long been a target of Greenpeace protests.

Anyone want odds on these guys taking a look at DeLay's, Santorum's or hell, even Jack Abramoff's non-profits?

WSJ.com - Did a Group Financed by Exxon Prompt IRS to Audit Greenpeace?

But in a little-noticed white paper submitted by Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to Congress on January 19 justifying the legality of the NSA eavesdropping, Justice Department lawyers made a tacit case that President Bush also has the inherent authority to order such physical searches.

This wouldn't even have been in there unless they were doing it. The 4th Amendment states

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

There isn't really any ambiguity in there, and the places that have been fuzzy (Miranda, searching of vehicles on the way to impound etc.) have largely been ruled on by the courts. Where is there zero ambiguity? Houses and businesses. If there is to be a search, it is done with a warrant, period.

I have zero doubts they've been doing this. It is too consistent with everything else they've done already.

USNews.com: The White House says spying on terrorism suspects without court approval is OK. What about physical searches?

Lawyers for two airlines being sued by 9/11 victims prompted a federal attorney to coach witnesses in the Zacarias Moussaoui death penalty trial so the government's case against the al-Qaida conspirator would not undercut their defense, victims' lawyers allege.

Oh this just keeps getting better. The TSA lawyer who did this tampered with witnesses to help protect airlines in their defense against lawsuits? This isn't that classic "frivolous lawsuit" crap that the Republicans keep tossing out, The suit against the airlines is real and they bear some responsibility for what happened in the same way parents should lock up guns to keep the five year old away from them.

What Martin did here is reprehensible and at a minimum she should be disbarred. She screwed with a criminal case, sabotaging the government in order to aid a business interest.

Witness Tampering Cited in Moussaoui Case

The council, part of the National Academies of Science, said that California's "pioneering role" in setting emission standards has posed additional costs and risks. But it concluded that it has been an effective proving ground for new technologies "that benefit California and the rest of the nation."

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Bond's office said in a statement that the study "supports Congress' continued need to ensure that California does not hurt other states" with its own requirements.

Wow. How do you get from the National Research Council saying that, to what Bond says it means? I guess black really is white.

NRC vs Bond