Hah!

Quoted: A judge upheld a law regulating greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles in another legal defeat for the car industry.

Implicit is the idea that the folks involved shouldn't face prosecution. Perhaps they should. All the way up the chain.

Quoted: Fear of opening the door to criminal or civil liability appeared to loom large in answers to senators by Michael B. Mukasey, the attorney general nominee.

Dot Earth

Quoted: Andrew C. Revkin on climate change and sustainable living.

These guys are scary. The worst thing is, they might even be right, but who will trust them again? They blew their wad on Iraq when Iran and Pakistan are the real problems.

Quoted: Vice President Dick Cheney on Sunday said Iran would face “serious consequences” if the government there does not abandon its nuclear program.

When will the horror end?

Quoted: Verizon Communications, the nation's second-largest telecom company, told congressional investigators that it has provided customers' telephone records to federal authorities in emergency cases without court orders hundreds of times since 2005.

Wow, the NYT grows some balls.

Quoted: We have watched Republican lawmakers help President Bush shred the Constitution in the name of fighting terrorism. It is time for that to stop.

My country disgusts me sometimes.

Quoted: A German citizen who said he was kidnapped by the C.I.A. and tortured in a prison in Afghanistan lost his last chance to seek redress in court today.

Quoted: When Jack Goldsmith took over as the key constitutional adviser for the Bush administration, he soon found himself at odds with the White House.

“I don’t think any president in the near future can have the same attitude toward executive power, because the other institutions of government won’t allow it,” he said softly. “The Bush administration has borrowed its power against future presidents.”

Praise Jesus.

Say it again, brother...

"Americans think their danger is terrorists," said Roberts. "They don't understand the terrorists cannot take away habeas corpus, the Bill of Rights, the Constitution. ... The terrorists are not anything like the threat that we face to the Bill of Rights and the Constitution from our own government in the name of fighting terrorism."