The excellently well-prepared Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), probably one of the best Senators in Congress, offered up a real eye-opener in today's Senate Judiciary hearing. The hearing ostensibly dealt with politicization in the Department of Justice but provided little new regarding Gonzales.

Mean, harsh, repetitive and stupidly thuggy Sens Arlen "Bash Anita Hill" Specter (R-PA) and Chuck "check kiting" Schumer ("D"-NY) did their usual thing -- 90% wasting time, 10% good points or what should have been, and 100% self-dispay -- while as usual making me feel sorry for Gonzales.

Critics of the administration have good points to make, ...   more »

As Barry Bonds approaches the record-breaking home run, some of our more respectable news media voices are joining the feeble bandwagon lumbering after Bonds to attack him. The Washington Post's Shankar Vedantam weighed in with faint praise and a superficially balanced appraisal of the treatment of Bonds in this week's "Department of Human Behavior," usually a pretty good column. Bob Schieffer weighed in with a not especially telling editorial on this week's Face the Nation.

The more volatile wing of the ape family, of course, is still carrying on its defamation of Bonds in connection with "steroids." Some ...   more »