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From KELOLAND:As Congress works to cut three billion dollars worth of agriculture spending, South Dakota's senators are among those with concerns. One Republican proposal would reduce food programs for the poor by 574 million dollars and conservation programs by one...

House Majority Whip Roy Blunt (MO) is going to replace Tom DeLay as House leader. David Dreier from California was in the running all day yesterday to take the spot, according to most news reports, but now Dreier's simply going...

If America had a true opposition party hanging around, you'd think this would be something of a banner week for them. Y'know, real salad days for folks who hate everything GWB and applaud every miscue real or imagined. Wrong....

According to Matt Taibbi ("Hunter Thompson, but without the talent!"), Douglas Brinkley left his cats and his maid behind when he evacuated New Orleans. But that's all right, he did this probably knowing that Sean Penn was going to be...

Conservatives Confront Bush Aides

Sort of looks like the FDR Republican President and his Kool-aid vendors still have a lot of work to do to get the GOP base on board - assuming that they have any concern about even bothering to do so at this point.

The conservative uprising against President Bush escalated yesterday as Republican activists angry over his nomination of White House counsel Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court confronted the president's envoys during a pair of tense closed-door meetings. A day after Bush publicly beseeched skeptical supporters to trust his judgment on Miers, a succession of prominent conservative leaders told his representatives that they did not. Over the course of several hours of sometimes testy exchanges, the dissenters complained that Miers was an unknown quantity with a thin résumé and that her selection -- Bush called her "the best person I could find" -- was a betrayal of years of struggle to move the court to the right.

Although the Chief is still trying to be optimistic about the appointment, none of this exactly gives a warm glow. All there is is a (hopefully not forlorn) hope that Ms. Miers ultimately proves to be a sound constitutional originalist. Unfortunately, all there is is that hope...but not much substance at this point.

Let us suppose for a moment that the Chicken Hawk argument were valid. One might then want to ask what the soldiers themselves think. By most estimates, servicemen and women voted Bush by about 80%. The figure is probably much...

Watertown native John Hinderacker is asking some good questions over at Power Line about Judith Miller....

Where is the MSM on this: Two political action committees linked to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi have been charged with attempting to circumvent to legal limits on campaign giving, the Federal Election Commission has ruled. According to the March...

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