Quick Squib

Until recently, newly-appointed Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito has been ruling for the defense on a number of criminal cases, often expressing doubt as to the sufficiency of evidence in capital cases. Today, though, he ruled in favor of the police on a criminal procedure dispute from Michigan. He broke a 4-4 tie and sided with Justice Scalia in voting to permit admissibility of evidence obtained after police, in executing a warrant, failed to knock and announce before entering the premises of the defendant and finding drugs and guns inside.

I also read that the President's unpopularity is having a political toll. How severe it will be will not be known until November. A wartime President should not be having these kinds of problems, but as Bush himself has observed, this is not a traditional kind of war. If you ask me it isn't a "war" at all; the state of non-war, non-peace in which we find ourselves cannot be neatly described in one or two words. It's uncomfortable and unpleasant and that's the reason the majority, and the President, are suffering politically. Perhaps it's necessary; certainly it could be done better than it has been.

I'd write more, but it's been very busy at work and nothing is set up yet at the new house. Today we should have movers over to at least get everything in the house and then we'll get the place set up. After that, I can get back to writing more often than I have been. Oh, and the beard and mustache are gone -- The Wife didn't like them. Now I think my face looks fat.