Hat tip to Sandefur for catching this. President Bush was at Monticello for a 4th of July celebration and he delivered an address. But it's quite telling that his speechwriters, in quoting Jefferson, cut out an anti-religious statement from a long an...

Yet another blow to the religious right's latest fake hero/martyr. CNN reports that Carrie Prejean was forced to settle her lawsuit against the Miss California pageant because a sex tape surfaced starring her - and apparently her alone. Read the rest...

Sen. Charles Grassley was asked by a reporter about his amendment that would prohibit a proposed commission to recommend ways to reform the criminal justice system from even discussing the possibility of decriminalizing any drugs currently considered...

Michelle Goldberg has a thought provoking article at The American Prospect about an Afghani women's group calling for an increase in American troops in that country to protect women against the barbaric reach of fundamentalist Islamic leaders who would...

Terry Krepel has an interesting article at the Huffington Post about the Worldnutdaily's relentless pimping of Orly Taitz and the birther nonsense. He chronicles how the Worldnutdaily consistently distorts their coverage of Taitz, leaving out relevant...

As Balko points out, when police accused of misconduct are suspended it is almost always with pay. But here's a situation where a police officer was suspended without pay. Because he wrote a ticket - legitimately - to the son of the mayor: Rowell...