memeorandum: Leahy rejects White House criticism of AG confirmation process (Klaus Marre/The Hill)

Michael Moore / Missoulian:

Medical marijuana advocate kills herself — Robin Prosser, a Missoula woman who struggled for a quarter century to live with the pain of an immunosuppressive disorder, tried years ago to kill herself. Last week, she tried again. This time, she succeeded.

Discussion: Captain's Quarters, The Newshoggers, Outside The Beltway, The Van Der Galiën Gazette, TBogg, Liberal Values, Balloon Juice, Raw Story Breaking News, Angry Bear and Suburban Guerrilla

Andrew Sullivan / The Atlantic Online:

Another Drug War Victim — A woman kills herself to stop the pain of an illness she tried to alleviate with marijuana: … That DEA statement should go down in history as an emblem of the anti-federalist agenda of today's conservatives. It's up there with protecting people from the alleviation of their own pain.

Klaus Marre / The Hill:

Leahy rejects White House criticism of AG confirmation process — Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) on Saturday rejected White House criticism that his panel was moving along too slowly the nomination of Michael Mukasey, whom President Bush tapped as the next attorney general.

Discussion: Captain's Quarters

Bennett Roth / Houston Chronicle:

Ron Paul's campaign takes to the airwaves — Maverick boosts pursuit of votes in early primaries — WASHINGTON — Hoping to defy more expectations, Rep. Ron Paul is ratcheting up his maverick Republican presidential campaign by launching TV and radio commercials in early primary states …

Discussion: Patterico's Pontifications

Brendan Bouffard / lsj.com:

Protesters shout down anti-Islam speaker at MSU — Audience uses chants, obscenities to interrupt British Nationalist's speech — EAST LANSING - When British Nationalist Nick Griffin took the podium at a Friday night Michigan State University event, he tried to explain how Islam is a threat to Western civilization.

Discussion: QandO, Spartan Spectator and Jihad Watch

Little Green Footballs:

BNP Leader Invited to MSU by 'Conservative' Students — In the boneheaded move of the year, conservative student group Young Americans for Freedom invited British National Party (BNP) leader Nick Griffin, a flat-out racist and Holocaust denier, to speak about the dangers of Islam …

Discussion: Death, Buck Naked Politics, Spartan Spectator, Hot Air and The Jawa Report

DownWithTyranny!:

JOHN RICH OF BIG & RICH DOES A RICK SANTORUM IMPERSONATION ON NASHVILLE RADIO— A NAIL IN HIS PROFESSIONAL COFFIN? — I had already left Warner Bros by the time our Nashville division had released its first album with Big Kenny (Alphin) and John Rich (pka, Big & Rich).

Discussion: Pam's House Blend and The Huffington Post

Maureen Dowd / New York Times:

W.M.D. in Iran? Q.E.D. — TIM RUSSERT: Mr. Vice President, welcome to "Meet the Press." — VICE PRESIDENT DICK CHENEY: Good morning, Tim. — RUSSERT: How close are we to war with Iran? — CHENEY: Well, I think we are in the final stages of diplomacy, obviously.

Discussion: NewsBusters.org

Don Surber:

Holocaust survivor trumps Dutch — "Europe was not as outraged by Auschwitz as by Guantanamo Bay" — He'll probably apologize for the remark later but Democratic Congressman Tom Lantos of California, the only Holocaust survivor in Congress, told it like it is to some Dutch politicians …

Discussion: Booman Tribune, Flopping Aces, Wizbang and TigerHawk

April Castro / Associated Press:

Roswell incident not explained to Richardson's satisfaction — ROUND ROCK, Texas — If he wins his bid for the White House, Democratic presidential candidate Bill Richardson may be just the man to get to the bottom of the 60-year-old Roswell UFO mystery. — Answering questions …

Discussion: Jules Crittenden, Outside The Beltway, QandO, Blue Crab Boulevard, Eunomia and Weasel Zippers

David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:

The Evangelical Crackup — The hundred-foot white cross atop the Immanuel Baptist Church in downtown Wichita, Kan., casts a shadow over a neighborhood of payday lenders, pawnbrokers and pornographic video stores. To its parishioners, this has long been the front line of the culture war.

Discussion: GregsOpinion.com, Daily Kos, AMERICAblog and Hot Air

Agence France Presse:

19 states now enjoy 'shoot first' laws — Burglars in the United States could once sue homeowners if they were shot, but now a growing number of states have made it legal to shoot to kill when somebody breaks into a house. — John Woodson, 46, found that out last week when he ambled …

Discussion: The Gun Toting Liberal™

Robert Barnes / Washington Post:

Judicial Races Now Rife With Politics — BUTLER, Pa. — It's always packed for Wing Night at American Legion Post 117, and in the crowd Seamus McCaffery saw the building blocks of his electoral success. — The local sheriff, the union guys, the daughter of a veteran who said, "I like your commercial about being a Marine."

Gary Schmitt / Weekly Standard:

But Who Will Surveil the Judges? — The FISA court and its failings. — For one who recently returned from Europe, where a colleague and I interviewed an array of domestic security officials in key European democracies, it is a bit of an out-of-body experience to examine the various bills …