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 …

Justice Dept.: FBI Misused Patriot Act  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI improperly and, in some cases, illegally used the USA Patriot Act to secretly obtain personal information about people in the United States, a Justice Department audit concluded Friday.  —  And for three years the FBI …

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.

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 …

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 …

Naughtywords  —  Yup, I use 'em—and when I do, it's not because I'm so moronic as to lift an image from a Google Search without even paying attention to what it says.  —  In case you can't make out the text, here's a still image in which they're clearer:  —  That's right.

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 …