Writes Steve Seech: “In reading your post about the new AG, Mukasey, I knew his name was familiar. I read about him in Napolitano’s book, Constitutional Chaos; he’s the same dumbass that denied Jose Padilla’s habeas corpus motion, and ruled it was okay for the Pres to keep him incarcerated indefinitely. And now comes the reward for all that tortured logic!”

Writes Karen Romer in the Greeley Tribune: In a bizarre twist of events, what should have been a routine film shoot turned into a real-life thriller. Members of a film crew got the shock of their lives Saturday when a Larimer County SWAT team surrounded the crew and ordered everyone on their knees, hands behind their heads. The crew from Twelve Monkeys Dancing Films, a Denver-based independent film company, was shooting a scene from their current low-budget feature, “Different Kinds,” in the North Pines campground just west of Loveland. In the scene, Chris Borden, the lead actor, plays the role … Continue reading Police State USA

No surprise that the Supreme Court (which the Anti-Federalists fingered as an agent of tyranny) has ruled that the president may keep Jose Padilla, a US civilian, in military prison indefinitely without charge because he is suspicious. And now we are told that the death penalty is appropriate for Zacarias Moussaoui, not for bombing anybody, but for not telling the cops all they wanted to hear.

“Flood Survivors Cuffed as Evacuation Begins” (thanks to D.A. for the link).

Part of the government’s moral code is a hatred of smoking. Also that government always takes precedence over parents. Also: junk science about 2nd-hand smoke is True. So maybe we shouldn’t be surprised that a mother is sent to jail for smoking around her children. Such is Yankeeland, 2004. (Link via Drudge)

86-year-old Mike Wallace was shoved against a car and handcuffed for being “disrespectful” to two taxi bureaucrats in Manhattan. He had given them “lip” and the two armed thugs felt theatened by the old man.