Judge Carter just today tossed out the lawsuit to which you refer.

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/10/judge_dismisses_taitz_birther_suit.php?ref=fpblg

According to CNN, he was in the attic of the house, never in the balloon. The government should bill the family for the tens of thousands of dollars of resources this mess used up.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/10/15/colorado.boy.balloon/index.html

Considering the antics of Gayle Ruzicka, Chris Buttars, Carl Wimmer, Paul Mero, Howard Stephenson, Curt Bramble and the merry bunch of other kooks that inhabit the halls of power in Utah, I'm not so sure.

Radical offshoot? The guy taught at BYU for 15 years. Ezra Taft Benson was every bit the barking anti-commie, John Bircher loon that Skousen was and he was President of the Church. This mentality is hardly in the fringe of the LDS Church.

Sadly there will be no Patrick Swayze Christmas this year. No one to rip out someone's neck and kick them in the ear.

RIP Patrick.

DA closes case with no charges:

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=4466257

Is that this bald-faced lying is going to deny people the ability to control their own ending days with dignity. People with money will generally already have a directive to physicians as it is thrown into most estate planning packets by a decent attorney. It is those who do not have such resources (or knowledge to put one together as they are rather formula and many states have them spelled out in statute) that will suffer. So once again the GOP/Conservative movement does everything possible to energize people who would ultimately benefit from a policy based upon lies and fear. The real problem is their enablers in the media who won't just come out and show what a lying bunch they are.

Why do you publish a liar that repeats the same lies?

Saw it at Sundance with about as white an audience as you can possibly get and everyone loved it. It's hilarious while at the same time dealing with a pretty sensitive topic.

You mean vapid, woefully ignorant, and completely irrational? Sounds about right.

In right-wing land if law enforcement officers seek to arrest someone pursuant to a warrant for violating gun laws its okay to kill the jack-booted thugs, but if an uppity black man squaks about getting hassled in his own living room for no reason he should be thrown in the hole by the courageous police hero.

Reader^2 has been a performance art piece this entire time. Bravo, sir. Bravo.

So it turns out the guy who appears to have committed the crime is indeed a right-wing wacko. Montana Freeman. Tax protester. "Personal sovereignty" idiocy. Pretty standard wingnut. Who'da thunk it? Hmmmm, sorta makes it "right-wing American terrorism" by definition.

And then you can wait a little while and he will change to the exact opposite position. Heh.

It's a further indication of the intellectual bankrupcty of the American media.

That that was obvioius sarchasm meant to point out how idiotic your own position on waterboarding is right? Or are you really that dense?

You should try to have an actual point before you post.

Perhaps you are unfamiliar with what this word means. It means they are looking at what happened. They were unable to determine what happened previously because of a refusal to cooperate with the investigation. Hence, the special prosecutor going around doing interesting things like interviewing people.

Inglesias was likely fired because of his refusal to indict a Democrat in a timely enough fashion for Pete Domenici to influence an election cycle. Whether that meets the definition of obstruction or some other federal offense is open to debate, but Rove was hip deep in it through his contacts with Allen Weh, Domenici, and Heather Wilson. You also have the post-firing intimidation actions and likely perjury that followed, so the investigation is needed to determine how much all of these people (not just Rove) were involved and whether that conduct meets the elements of the crimes. Why you seem to have a problem with that when the investigation was instigated by George W. Bush's own AG appointee is somewhat of a mystery.

The most serious allegation that we were not able to fully investigate related to the removal of David Iglesias, the U.S. Attorney for New Mexico, and the allegation that he was removed to influence voter fraud and public corruption prosecutions. We recommend that a counsel specially appointed by the Attorney General assess the facts we have uncovered, work with us to conduct further investigation, and ultimately determine whether the evidence demonstrates that any criminal offense was committed with regard to the removal of Iglesias or any other U.S. Attorney, or the testimony of any witness related to the U.S. Attorney removals.

They couldn't investigate it because of the stonewalling by Rove and Miers. Firing U.S. Attorneys to influence pending criminal actions would meet the requirements of 18 U.S.C. 1505. So is telling people not to talk to investigators, lying about it to investigators, suborning perjury. There are a host of things Rove, Goodling, Sampson, McNulty, Gonzalez and Meiers could be tagged with here.

Although obvious troll is obvious as usual, they are likely looking at obstruction of justice and perjury for all of the after-the-fact shenanigans that went on after the firings. Or do you think Mukasey just appoints special prosecutors for the hell of it?

Justice Souter, of course, notably voted to uphold the right to abortion in 1992, though the Court claimed incorrectly that its holding was limited to situations when "contraception fails."

You've said this before and it simply isn't true. You might want to familiarize yourself with the concept of dicta.