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You know, they call it the Garden State because Toxic Waste Dump State doesn’t fit on the license plates.
Anyway, I digress. What I had in mind was the following:

TORCH UPDATE: It’s official. I just saw a tape of New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey (D) explaining that New Jersey Democrats have asked the state Supreme Court to grant an exception to state election law. If New Jersey had better beaches it would almost be Florida.

Juan Non-Volokh hits the nail on the head. Dollars to doughnuts this doesn’t end with the NJ Supremes. I see another 5-4 decision coming in the next month out of the “handsome Parthenon-with-family-room-wing-and-attached-garage” out back of the Capitol.
(Description of Supreme Court building in DC courtesy of P.J. O’Rourke)

Since 1799, the United States has had on its books of law a little piece of Congressional piquery called The Logan Act.

Any citizen of the United States wherever he may be, who, without authority of the United States, directly or indirectly commences or carries on any correspondence or intercourse with any foreign government or any officer or any agent thereof, with intent to influence the measures or conduct of any foreign government or any official or agent thereof, in relations to any disputes or controversies with the United States, or to defeat the measures of the United States, shall be fined not more than $5000 or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.

The act is named for a man named George Logan, a Quaker physician and friend of Thomas Jefferson, who took it upon himself in 1798 to travel to France to secure an accord with the United States. Note that he had no authority whatsoever to conduct foreign policy 🙂
The Logan Act was passed the following year by incensed Federalists (who were Anglophiles and didn’t appreciate Logan’s amateur diplomacy).
Logan, not to be deterred, seved as a US Senator from 1801-1807 and defied the law by conducting talks with England to reconcile various differences between the two countries. Now that’s interesting too, since Jefferson was president from 1801-1807 and was a confirmed Francophile 🙂
No one has ever been charged or convicted of a violation of the Logan Act, although it has been evoked many times by infuriated Americans with regard to a diverse lot of non-authorized diplomats ranging (just in recent memory) from Jesse Jackson to Henry Kissinger.
However, in view of the severity of the swinish assholishness demonstrated by Reps. Bonior and McDermott in the last couple of days vis-a-vis Iraq, I can’t think of a better first time to invoke the Act.

Rudy Giuliani still has his attention sharply focused.
Damn shame he was term-limited.

Damn. Fox as usual has the scoop on this seriously important problem. Well, via the NY Post.
I really prefer brunettes. My wife just plays a blonde in real life so I guess I got what I prefer 🙂

She’s already out on one bond, why has the court let her out on yet another bond?
Very strange. I think she needs to be locked up until all of this is straightened out.

Your humble correspondent is speechless.
Link via the Professor.

Latest Fox News “You Decide” poll (non-scientific of course) on the website shows 85% say Babs knows nothing and should shut up, 15% say she’s just exercising her right of free speech.
I wonder if the 15% would pay for me to rebut her on national television?
Just thinkin’ out loud. But then, I don’t get a national audience to think out loud.

Fuck Teddy Kennedy.
Go away, you miserable ass. The only reason you’re still around is because you got out of a murder rap and because you aren’t worth the powder to blow you to hell. You give the “world’s greatest deliberative body” quite the reputation, along with Kleagle Byrd and the Senator from Disney, Fritz Hollings. Not to mention that lapdog who thinks he’s a Doberman, Daschle.

Nicholas Confessore says that Democrats are a single seat away from disaster, disaster in his mind being total Republican control of the Federal government for two years for the first time since 1929 (including the Supreme Court).
Nick, don’t you get it? This would be a good thing. And for all the reasons you give in your heartfelt piece, including “bankrupting” the Federal government, which sticks its nose in way too many places it isn’t wanted or needed to begin with.
He ends up with this pithy bit: “If the country wakes up on November 6 with a Republican House and Senate, the Democrats may spend the next 20 years wondering why they didn’t.”
Nick, buddy, the Dems are going to lose the election, because they don’t understand that the people in the red states believe in strong defense and a clear national security stance, without which all these domestic issues seem somewhat silly — and because the people in the blue states are starting to come to that conclusion, too. Domestic affairs take a back seat to the possibility of a nuke popping off in New York Harbor or out there under the 14th Street Bridge on the Potomac. I don’t know about you, but I really can’t see how putting more money into education or welfare will keep NYC or DC from being burned to a crisp if Saddam manages to get a working nuke aboard some nondescript Liberian-flagged freighter.
After we bust Saddam’s chops, there will be plenty of time and money for all your pet liberal folderol. Not until.
(Link via Real Clear Politics)

…on the Homeland Security bill.
But you could solve the whole damned problem if you’d SWITCH PARTIES. Take the power out of Daschle’s hands and give it back to Trent Lott. Immediately many things would become simple.
You don’t belong on the left side of the aisle. You belong on the right, you know it, and you know it would be the right thing to do, particularly after the Jeffords treachery.
I’ve admired you for some time but frankly the longer you persist in keeping that asshole Daschle in charge, the more you piss me off.