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President Bush has been served with subpoenas, but he continues to refuse to comply with them. Under the guise of needing his advice to be “free and unfettered”, he says that his “Executive Privilege” means he doesn’t have to respond to the subpoenas. It’s all the worse that he insults our intelligence as he willfully disdains the law by invoking “executive privilege” to cover up the firings of federal prosecutors.

In one of those “duh” moments, it seems as though the “blogosphere” iscatching on to why Cheney is essentially unimpeachable - because the Vice President would preside over his own impeachment. There’s a constitutional clause that says the Chief Justice presides over Presidential impeachments (as the VP would obviously have a conflict of interest), but no such provision exists for impeaching the Vice President.

In what couldn’t be a clearer case of his making up the rules as he goes along, it seems that President Bush has said that his office, and the office of Vice President Cheney, are exempt from oversight regarding classified material. The ironic part about this is that it was President Bush’s own executive order that says that they are required to have the oversight.  It also makes the two offices a potential national security risk, because no one knows how the classified material is being handled!

If you live in Illinois, and send a fax to your Senator indicating that you’re opposed to his new gun control legislation, you may get a visit from the Illinois State Police. And this isn’t a case where there were threats made; the Illinois State Rifle Association has examined the faxes in question, and found them to be non-threatening. It is investigating further why the police were involved at all.

It seems that sometimes, common sense can prevail. A 6th US Circuit Court of Appeals decision has said that the government must have a warrant to search private email, and that the same expectation of privacy given to things like postal mail and phone calls must apply to email. No longer can the government get around it by secretly tapping the email at the ISP.

Apparently, President Bush still has all options are on the table when it comes to dealing with Iran. Of course, that means military strikes are not ruled out, but the dismay over the quagmire in Iraq should hopefully quell any chance of that.

One of the latest scandals to come out of China (the country that will host the 2008 Olympic Games) is that children are being snatched from the street to be used as slaves. The worst part is that the government, if not actually duplicitous, is turning a blind eye. From the article: “Horrified Chinese have followed the stark, uncensored images of the slaves on television as they were rescued by police. Some children still wore their school uniforms.”

There seem to be two factions inside the White House regarding Iran these days. Condoleeza Rice and her groupies want to take a diplomatic tack with Iran, and Cheney and his groupies (including the President) want to bomb Iran. Of course, the President’s disastrous war in Iraq is making it very difficult for them to have any credibility in suggesting a military attack, but from Iran’s actions, it seems that Rice’s side isn’t faring much better.

There are now four states that are rejecting the Real ID program that the Feds are trying to impose on the states: New Hampshire, Oklahoma, Washington, and Montana. While some are rejecting it for such prosaic reasons as the $14 BILLION price tag, it’s still good to see that states are standing up against the Federal government.

Predicting that Iran will obtain a nuclear weapon within three years and claiming to have a strike plan in place, senior American military officers have told The Jerusalem Post they support President George W. Bush’s stance to do everything necessary to stop the Islamic Republic’s race for nuclear power.

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