Supreme Court: Detainees' Rights—Scalia Speaks His Mind

"War is war, and it has never been the case that when you captured a combatant you have to give them a jury trial in your civil courts," he says on a tape of the talk reviewed by NEWSWEEK. "Give me a break."

Abramoff clearing DeLay

Afraid of losing gas taxes by fuel efficient cars, Portland plans to test a "tax by the mile" plan which employs GPS tracking to log your miles which poses new privacy issues. Proggresive Portland sounds willing to invade our privacy and refuse to to allow tax cuts simultaneously.

Hostages were 'dupes,' Iraq says

Non-Mexican illegal immigrants are increasingly "renting" families to avoid deportation under the federal government's newly expedited removal program, according to John Torres, director of the Office of Detention and Removal at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Speaking to the Washington Times, Torres claimed non-Mexicans "are passing themselves off as a family, paying to have children smuggled with them across the border, because the smugglers know we're not going to break up a family for the deportation process."......

...Immigration authorities are worried that such children could be in great danger as the summer months approach and temperatures rise.