When I last visited this subject it was Justice Scalia talking about scaling back individual rights.
Now South Knox Bubba is disturbed by new activity related to the Total Information Act. I think we might want to move a step or two beyond disturbed. Maybe to scared into action while we still have a chance.
Hesiod at Counterspin Central asks why a democratic congressman would introduce a resolution to repeal the 22nd Amendment to the United States Constitution.
If you are concerned about this issue, and you all should be, there is quite a bit of fresh discussion happening. In sequence jump over to Electrolite(there is a lengthy and interesting comment thread), Unruled and Unqualified Offerings. Plenty of links from them to other material.
This evening Political Parrhesia led me over to TalkLeft who urges us to speak up against an effort by Sen Joseph Biden (D-Del) to do some Ashcroftian dirty work. If you think you are not going to be affected you are wrong:
Whoever, for a commercial purpose, knowingly promotes any rave, dance, music, or other entertainment event, that takes place under circumstances where the promoter knows or reasonably ought to know that a controlled substance will be used or distributed in violation of Federal law or the law of the place where the event is held, shall be fined under title 18, United States Code, or imprisoned for not more than 9 years, or both.
If language like this gets written into the law of the land you may have just gone to your last concert for a while.
Nurse Ratched points us to this Onion article which, in part, echos William Rasberry in the Washington Post and Josh Marshall in the Washington Review.
The Iraq adventure will create more problems for the US and this is just what the doctor ordered: a never ending war against continually changing foes; lockstep ‘patriotism’ leading to 4 more years in office which should be enough time to close the polling booths.