Note to Republicans: Being the anti-minority party is the surest route to becoming the permanent minority party. Your hatred, contempt, and fear of anyone who is not a straight white Christian man makes you very unappealing to anyone who isn’t. Or who likes and respects anyone who isn’t. Or who has a shred of human decency and compassion. Locking up the bigot vote won’t do you much good if you lose everyone else.

Poor Jane Harman. I feel her pain:

Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif.) raised the possibility today that more members of Congress could have been wiretapped by the NSA or FBI.

Defending herself against reports that she was caught on tape offering to intervene in the espionage-related case of two former employees of the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), Harman said other members are worried that they were taped as well.

How does Obama speak at the national Holocaust remembrance commemoration on the topic “Never Again: What You Do Matters” one week after releasing memos outlining torture as an official US policy, and after declaring that those who employed it will not be prosecuted? We’ll find out on Thursday.

Cheney says disclose,disclose, disclose. . . .

Way back in the mists of time, er 2001, Judge Rakoff of the the federal district court SDNY issued a decision unsealing some court documents so that a news outlet, TheStreet.com, could have access to them for news gathering and disseminating purposes.

back in 1998 10 stock brokers and borakerage officials had been arrested for crimes committed on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”).

Inhofe is threatening to filibuster the nomination of Judge David Hamilton to the Seventh Circuit for being too logical.

Spencer’s story on a previously unknown 2007 OLC memo suggests the CIA continued to distrust Bush’s willingness to give them policy cover for torture.

Yesterday, Marcy Wheeler made the front page of the New York Times with her scoop about about Khalid Sheik Mohammed being waterboarded 183 times in one month. Her liveblogging of the Libby trial was one of the seminal moments in online journalism, and she’s consistently demonstrated the investigative skills that show what bloggers and those using online tools are uniquely capable of doing.

This just in: US News & World Report is officially giving plumb op-ed assignments to crazy people. Here’s Ted Nugent on the 10th anniversary of Columbine.

Is it common practice for Congressional staff to throw away letters from constituents hoping to have their voices heard?