To submit comments on the Real ID regulation, go to

Of course, my link didn't work.

To submit comments, you go to http://www.regulations.gov, and search for docket number DHS-2006-0030

You then click on the link in the search results, and can submit comments using a rather complex form system.

Or you can send snail mail marked with docket number DHS-2006-0030 to:

Homeland Security

Attn: NAC 1-12037

Washington, DC 20528

It is worth noting that the Wall Street Journal didn't see fit to put this open call for dictatorship in their print edition or the standard opinion pages of their news web site -- it seems to only be in their "OPINIONJOURNAL FEDERATION" which appears to be somewhat distinct from the main sections of the Wall Street Journal.

It might be an interesting muckraking exercise to dig up the Politico's incorporation papers.

Looks like its time to write my congresswoman and ask for impeachment on this topic again.

The real problem with blogs right now is that they're not able to cover the void that exists in local and regional political coverage. My local newspaper (the San Jose Mercury) essentially doesn't cover city hall, county officials, or state government. With their ongoing layoffs, they're not going to either.

Actually covering this stuff means having a few people doing it full-time -- something that isn't likely to come from blogs with their current funding model.

Somehow, we're going to need to create world where there is somehow funding available to see what local and regional officials are doing, and to then communicate that information the public.

The really funny thing about all this is that unlike other Idaho publications, the Idaho Statesman didn't publish anything until after the guilty plea. See http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/a_statesmans_decisions.php for an explanation of the thinking which went into their decision to NOT publish.

I don't know when crab season is in Iranian waters, but here in northern California, fishermen are tossing crab traps into the water at this time of year.

Even if Iranians were seen tossing objects into the water, it is entirely possible that this was ordinary fishing activity.

I'm no longer able to read your articles in my RSS reader -- I get a message about javascript being required.

Is there any way you can fix this?

Glenn Greenwald wrote:

government officials are free to break the law in secret by claiming that national security concerns prevent courts from ruling on what they did

Isn't that exactly what the state secrets doctrine is, and isn't it something which has been upheld by the Supreme Court -- which, when the original case in which it was upheld turned out to be a situation where the government lied to cover up wrongdoing, and didn't have any actual need for secrecy, the Supreme Court refused to hear the appeal?

Interesting how you're now on the same page as Bob Somerby, who was one of the earliest left-wing political bloggers (and who still doesn't have an RSS feed on his dailyhowler.com site)

If you think that NBC, part of GE, a major military contractor, is going to turn into some sort of left-wing cable channel, you're out of your mind.

If we want something like that, we need to put our pressure on a channel whose parent company doesn't have a large financial interest in the Forever War.