Because you never can have too many reminders that Glenn "Instapundit" Reynolds is ultimately a Party hack

l’shem yichud.... Today is the 29th day of the Omer, the day on which the Omer has caught up to Bush’s 29% approval rating. Harachaman hu yivarech et Artzot Ha-Brit be-America, ve-yagen aleiha me-oyveiha ve-sareiha . ... more

Matthew Yglesias on the all-too-appropriately-named Tapped: FUN WITH SURVEILLANCE. Turns out the NSA, with the collaboration of every phone company except Qwest, is monitoring all of our calls -- not to listen in to what’s being said, but simply to gather data about the calls and draw inferences from that. It’s important to link this up to the broader chain. One thing the Bush administration says it can do with this meta-data is to start tapping your calls and listening in,... more

Greenwald writes: We continuously hear that the Bush administration has legal authority to do anything the President orders. Claims that he is acting illegally are just frivolous and the by-product of Bush hatred. And yet, as I detailed here , each and every time the administration has the opportunity to obtain an adjudication of the legality of its conduct from a federal court (which, unbeknownst to the administration, is the branch of our government which has the authority a... more