Highway robbery. Literally. By your government.

Radley Balko has a righteous rant on what Mark Twain called American’s only native criminal class–Congresspeople. I wouldn’t go quite as far as this commenter, though:

I think I’d actually vote for Jar Jar Binks before most of our current senators.

He’d be an improvement over some of them, but not, I think, most.

“Jar-Jar in ’08!”

Andy McCarthy has some interesting thoughts on demands that Maliki be replaced:

…shouldn’t Senator Clinton have a higher standard to meet in explaining why Maliki is unacceptable? This is the same former First Lady who actively encouraged her husband’s embrace of Yasser Arafat

He’s actually calling out Hillary on the Lincoln Bedroom. As it’s noted, it won’t work. Democrats are in continuing denial (with a few notable exceptions) about the deep corruption of the Clintons.

To listen do DiFi and the Brady bunch, you’d have expected crimes committed with “assault weapons” (i.e., scary-looking semi-automatic rifles) to have skyrocketed with the end of the ban on them. So what happened?

Thoughts, from Jeff Goldstein:

…what is not debatable is that modern

Thoughts, from Jeff Goldstein:

…what is not debatable is that modern

Thoughts, from Jeff Goldstein:

…what is not debatable is that modern

…to learn that Bill Clinton lied to us again. Over a matter of national security.

[Update a few minutes later]

Here’s the full story:

The report also criticized intelligence problems when Bill Clinton was president, detailing political and legal

…to learn that Bill Clinton lied to us again. Over a matter of national security.

[Update a few minutes later]

Here’s the full story:

The report also criticized intelligence problems when Bill Clinton was president, detailing political and legal