Dunno, but a “detox cleanse” sounds more like something I’d expect a Democratic governor to be sticking the state with a tab for.

Latest news out of the IRS investigation based on partial transcripts leaked by House GOP investigators.

Conservative Christian college expels female student after finding out she was in a relationship with another woman, but still wants to keep her tuition.

In case you missed it, there was a big ‘scoop’ on Saturday evening from CNET, purporting to report that Rep. Jerry Nadler revealed that he’d been told in a classified briefing that NSA analysts could choose to listen to domestic phone calls simply on the basis of their decision that they were worth listening to – no warrant, no national security letter. Read More

Pope Francis blesses thousands of bikers and their Harleys.

There’s little doubt the mix of scandals and non-scandals are taking a toll on President Obama’s standing. Here’s the chart of his approval going back to Spring of last year … Read More

Montreal Mayor arrested on corruption charges.

Snowden explains why he didn’t just go to Iceland if that’s where he wanted asylum.

I have to say Snowden loses a little credibility each time he suggests the US government might try to take him out with a hit squad. And now, al Awlaki really isn’t good evidence to the contrary.

For all the back and forth about Phoenixes and what exactly he expected a spy organization to do, the one interesting and significant thing to come out of this Snowden live chat is his focus on what is technically possible within the NSA vs whatever policy restrictions are in place to protect privacy, constitutional protections for US citizens and so forth. It’s not even totally clear, reading these answers, how much Snowden and his nemeses within the Intel Community are even disagreeing about how things work.