BREAKING NEWS — Divided three-judge D.C. Circuit panel holds that the District of Columbia's gun control laws violate individuals' Second Amendment rights: You can access today's lengthy D.C. Circuit ruling at this link.  —  According to the majority opinion, "[T]he phrase 'the right of the people …

Roger Ailes Jokes About Obama as Terrorist  —  This is a rather extraordinary speech that Roger Ailes gave last night.  He's clearly very frustrated with the organizing against Fox News.  But let's start out with his jokes. … Bill Clinton cheats on his wife, France is weak, and Obama is a terrorist.

Insurgent leader nabbed in Iraq raid  —  BAGHDAD - The leader of the al-Qaida-affiliated Islamic State of Iraq was captured Friday in a raid west of Baghdad — his identity revealed by a fellow insurgent detained with him, an Iraqi military spokesman said.  —  Abu Omar al-Baghdadi was captured …

Obey berates woman over war funding, later apologizes  —  House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey (D-Wis.) berated a woman who approached him in a Congressional corridor, claiming that "idiot liberals" don't understand the war supplemental spending bill process.

The FBI's lawbreaking is tied directly to President Bush  —  Multiple media outlets are focusing on the unsurprising story that the FBI seems to have been abusing its powers under the Patriot Act to issue so-called "national security letters" (NSLs), whereby the FBI is empowered to obtain …

I.R.S. Letting Tax Lawyers Write Rules  —  The Internal Revenue Service is asking tax lawyers and accountants who create tax shelters and exploit loopholes to take the lead in writing some of its new tax rules.  —  The pilot project represents a further expansion of the increasingly common …

Rolling Back Pentagon Spies  —  Defense Secretary Robert Gates is considering a plan to curtail the Pentagon's clandestine spying activities, which were expanded by his predecessor, Donald Rumsfeld, after the 9/11 attacks.  The undercover work allowed military personnel to collect intelligence …

Two Days Of Coolness: My Visit To the Set Of Battlestar Galactica.  —  Long promised, finally here: my posting recounting my visit to the Vancouver set of Battlestar Galactica back on November 30th and December 1st, 2006.  —  Now, before I continue, I'll address the obvious question first …

Polar bears 'thriving as the Arctic warms up'  —  Pictures of a polar bear floating precariously on a tiny iceberg have become the defining image of global warming but may be misleading, according to a new study.  —  A survey of the animals' numbers in Canada's eastern Arctic has revealed …

A Movie Only a Spartan Could Love  —  THE BATTLE EPIC 300.  —  If 300, the new battle epic based on the graphic novel by Frank Miller and Lynn Varley, had been made in Germany in the mid-1930s, it would be studied today alongside The Eternal Jew as a textbook example of how race-baiting fantasy …

Another Hollywood star steps forward for GOP  —  Former Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker (R-Tenn.) is contacting powerbrokers in the Republican Party to build support for a 2008 presidential campaign by his one-time protégé, former Sen. Fred Thompson (R-Tenn.).