
Source: usatoday.com
After five years of a concerted White House campaign, there are tentative signs that Congress and the courts are beginning to push back against what has been the greatest expansion of presidential powers in a generation or more.

Source: aei.org
Let us stipulate one thing at the beginning: Whatever the other side of the story, if investigators are not lying and did find $90,000 in Rep.

Well, as many of you know, there is a bit of a tizzy going on up in Washington, D.C. Rep. William J. Jefferson (D-La.) got his law offices raided by the F.B.I. Suddenly, Congress is interested in protecting Constitutionally-guaranteed rights.

Source: Reuters.com
Yet another campaign commercial: I was against the FBI raid before I was for the FBI raid. From the article: "I don't think it was a separation of powers question.

When the FBI executed a warrant against the congressional office of Rep. William Jefferson, D-La., sites around the blogosphere (read: Instapundit, Glenn Reynolds and RedState) came out staunchly in support of the FBI's actions.

Source: New York Times
From the article:Attorney General Alberto R.

Source: salon.com
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Source: WSJ.com
Among other figures quoted in the article, Newt Gingrich had this to say:"The House is now faced with a reality of power," says former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich, a possible candidate for president in 2008 now working at the conservative American Enterprise Institute …

Source: ABC News
From the article:Bush's move was described as an attempt to reach a cooling off period in a heated confrontation between his administration and leaders of the House and Senate.A sufficient "cooling off period" should allow time for people who are concerned about civil liberties …

Source: New York Times
Bipartisan action.

Source: tallycast.com
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Source: Th Unofficial Stephen Jay Gould Archive
The debate between Intelligent Design advocates, and the staunch advocates of neo-Darwinian Theory of Evolution, is leaving in obscurity a little known fact.

When Thomas Jefferson wrote his famous letter to the Danbury Baptist Association in 1802 he had no way of knowing that, 204 years later, it would serve as the short hand for the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.