I was in the middle of a serious WiiFit session when the door bell rang. I picked Molly the Corgi up because she is crazy and I walked over to the foyer. We don’t have windows or a peephole so I couldn’t see who it was before I opened the door.
Standing there was a man [...]
I have discovered an odd truth about violent risk in the United States, particularly the South and West. In the course of my work as a risk analyst and a political scientist studying terrorism, I read a lot of news stories every day about suspicious packages, hazmat responses to weird mail, and pipe bombs.
The pipe [...]
Illegal wiretapping. Selling operational control of six major ports to the UAE. Valerie Plame. Tom DeLay. Abramoff. Isn’t this enough to deal with?
Apparently not, as about five hours ago South Dakota’s state senate passed a bill banning abortion. The House will too (they already passed one last week with slightly different wording) and the Governor [...]
You don’t have to hear it from me to know that things have gone south for the reasonable among us in the month or so since I left you. The last, despairing cries of my undergraduate career are echoing in the halls of the clean, ill-lighted place my days have become.
By that, I in no [...]
On February 17th, Sensenbrenner and a few of his pals introduced this legislation:
109th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. J. RES. 24
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to repeal the 22nd amendment to the Constitution.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
February 17, 2005
Mr. HOYER (for himself, Mr. BERMAN, Mr. SENSENBRENNER, Mr. SABO, and Mr. PALLONE) introduced the [...]