According to Government Executive Magazine, people hate RFID, and they're shit out of luck. Via Claire Wolf

Jonathan Schwartz at A Tiny Revolution on the despicable lovers of Bill Clinton's claim that the 1998 Operation Desert Fox (which was named after the Nazi Erwin Rommel) destroyed the last of the Iraqis wmd ability: "This is an appealing tale for Clintonistas, because it him look good. First, it gets him off the hook

The fight was between Ibrahim Jaafari, from Da'wa, who's been PM since early last year and Abdul al-Mahdi from the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution. The Kurdish and Sunni factions had opposed Jaafari, who until a few days ago was insisting that he wasn't going anywhere. Needlenose was saying that Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani had intervened and told Jaafari to step aside. (Nice to know the Shi'ite theocrats rule in the end, huh?) Anyway, The deadlock is finally broken. The Sunnis have decided...

At Endervidualism. "I suspect some libertarians greatly overestimate how attractive liberty is to today's Americans. How many young people and college students would happily permit the government to monitor all their e-mail in return for unlimited free music downloads? How many McDonald's gift certificates would it take to sway a person to pledge never to publicly criticize the president? How many people would happily surrender most of their constitutional rights in return for a president's...

Since you're the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, I figure you must be the appropriate person to address this to. I have another piece of evidence to go into your articles of impeachment against George Bush and Dick Cheney: "Drumheller, who retired [from the CIA] last year, says the White House ignored crucial information from a high and credible source. The source was Iraq's foreign minister, Naji Sabri, with whom U.S. spies had made a deal. "When CIA Director George Tenet delivered...

Tuesday's theme was Patriot's Day. Click here.

From Brian Doherty at Reason: "On the 13th anniversary, yesterday, of one of the most vivid public government atrocities in our lifetime, the federal assault on and destruction of the Branch Davidians' home in Waco, the good (though inadequate) news comes that six imprisoned Davidians will be set free soon. One of them, Paul Gordon Fatta, is understatedly said by AP to be "angry about the government's actions." Fatta wasn't even present during the raid or its horrific end; he was jugged on...

Bush's approval rating is now 33% according to Fox news. As I wrote last August: "We must be careful not to give Bush and his team any more reason for war. Even bashing them could backfire on us. If it is generally agreed this early in the second term that George W. Bush is the worst president since Richard Nixon, or even since Franklin D. Roosevelt, and that he is destined to sit as a lame-duck loser for the next three and a half years, then he may see only one chance left to save his legacy:...

According to the great libertarian journalist James Bovard, Americans have attention deficit disorder. Among his most disturbing conclusions is that most of us have absolutely no idea what the Bill of Rights says or means. Here's what little I can do about that: The Conventions of a number of the States having, at the time of adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be...

by Anthony Gregory http://www.lewrockwell.com/gregory/gregory117.html Every year around this time, I find it worthwhile to reflect on the siege at Mt. Carmel, just outside of Waco, Texas, which began on February 28, 1993, when an ATF publicity stunt went awry, and ended 51 days later on April 19 with about 80 civilians killed. Waco is still important, because it illustrates the violent nature of the state, the fact that political power flows from the barrel of a gun, and the scary truth that...

Has there been a single terrorism case post-9/11 that wasn't a complete farce? Remember the scary paintball terrorists? (innocent - convicted anyway) How about the falsely convicted and later released in the Detroit Case? You know, the one where the prosecutor is now being prosecuted? Wow, we sure felt like we needed government the week they were arrested, huh? There was the "worst of the worst" in the form of Mr. Hamdi, who was set free by the military after the court said he was eligible for...

in the way of immigration. Good for him.

Scares the shit out of me.

Jeff Fleece is the name of a local punk-ass Republican Warbot, who in his recent primary race for Texas State House District 50 sent out a mailer claiming that his Republican Liberty Caucus competition, Don Zimmerman, was a flag burner. "While Jeff Fleece was defending the flag, Don Zimmerman was burning it." It's true. Zimmerman did burn the flag - The UN flag. Why, that un-patriotic son-of-a-bitch! I heard second hand a story about a man who was approached by the long arm of the law on the...

He is smart.