Tom DeLay's state political action committee was just found guilty of violating Texas campaign finance law. A Texas judge found, in a civil trial, against DeLay's Texans for a Republican Majority PAC, holding that the committee failed to report $600,000 in corporate contributions, in direct violation of Texas law. This is the first time ever in a court of law Tom DeLay's fundraising empire has been held to account.

The Daily Delay has more.

Howard Dean's words about Delay may be coming true.

Can you give me an idea what's clip worthy? I can't watch it right now.

PBS News Hour: "Amnesty International Blasts U.S."

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via Wonkette: has a much bigger picture that gives you the jury breakdown of Jackson's and OJ's.

O'Reilly makes fun of O.J. jury based on their ethnicity.

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(Update) Here's the break down of the jury pools.

OJ Jury- 9 Blacks, 1 Hispanics, 2 Whites

Jackson Jury-7 Whites, 4 Hispanics, 1 Asian, 0 blacks

He feels they were not regular folks because they're black in my opinion.

In his newest column, David tries to make the case that evangelicals and liberals are of the same mold and should form a natural alliance. As a reader pointed out, David used the word evangelical 13 times in his column. Overkill? Of course Brooks blames the media:

Millions of evangelicals are embarrassed by the people held up by the news media as their spokesmen.

We are embarrased by them too. These groups will never relinquish the teachings that made them rich because a church under seige is a powerful church. More to come...

Talk Left posted this sad and unbelievable story:

Schapelle Corby finds out today whether she will be acquitted or sentenced to death or life in prison, when three judges render a decision in a case in which she is charged with smuggling less than 10 pounds of marijuana into Indonesia while en route to Bali for a vacation. Corby's defense has claimed all along that baggage handlers in Australia planted the drugs in Corby's luggage as part of a bungled domestic smuggling operation - and that the drugs were never meant to arrive in Indonesia at all.....Questions are being asked as to why there were no fingerprints taken from the bag that contained 9 pounds of marijuana the moment it was discovered in the student's boogie bag in Denpasar airport.

She tried to tell the judges, but it fell on deaf ears........read on

There's a follow-up post by Talk Left: Group Seeks Death Penalty for Schappelle Corby :Actor Russell Crowe has taken up the cause of an Australian beautician imprisoned on drug charges in Bali, Indonesia. Crowe said: "The photographs of Schappelle Corby broke my heart. "I don't understand how we can, as a country, stand by and let a young lady rot away in a foreign prison. That is ridiculous. "It is Indonesia, fine and dandy, but we need to find a rational platform to save this girl's life."...read on

Roxanne

The BBC: Hot...and Bothered

Today's curious convergence of events: in the same week that BBC employees in London staged a one-day strikeover job cutbacks, BlogPulse also discovered that the BBC has been the most-cited news source among bloggers from January-May 2005 -- topping 2004's top media sources, Yahoo! News and the New York Times.

In the first five months of 2005, the BBC was cited 73,422 times by bloggers, followed by Yahoo! (70,299 citations, dropping from No. 1 to No. 2), CNN (63,347, moving from No. 4 to No. 2) and the Times (52,985, dropping from No. 2 to No. 4).

One of the biggest news winners in 2005 is the alternative TruthOut.org, which jumped from 89th among 2004's top-cited news sources to No. 7 on the January-May 2005 list (with 17,490 citations).

Other blog discoveries
Mary Tillman, the mother of the late NFL star and U.S. soldier Pat Tillman, is today's burstiest person for her public criticism of the U.S. Army's handling of her son's death in Afghanistan. Originally hailed as dying a hero's death in Army reports, Tillman later was found to have been killed by friendly fire during a botched mission. How many other military families will never know the details of their loved one's deaths, asksScoop Agonist blogger? The Liquid List blog wonders how Tillman would have reacted to the Army's behavior. Powerpundit hopes the family's anger won't be used politically against the Bush Administration.

News that Apple's iTunes update might support podcasts is getting traction in the blogosphere, including a mention at Engadget.

And today's continuing Star Wars-related discoveries include Unfortunate Star Wars Costumes, Burger King's Sith Sense pass-along video, The Force Is a Tool of Satan web site, and this annoying clip of Darth Vader yelling "NOOOOOO."

Bush Declares Self “Propaganda Catapult”... Women & Children Flee   Scoop Agonist blogger? The Liquid List blog wonders how Tillman would have reacted to the Army's behavior. Powerpundit hopes the family's anger won't be used politically against the Bush Administration.

News that Apple's iTunes update might support podcasts is getting traction in the blogosphere, including a mention at Engadget.

And today's continuing Star Wars-related discoveries include Unfortunate Star Wars Costumes, Burger King's Sith Sense pass-along video, The Force Is a Tool of Satan web site, and this annoying clip of Darth Vader yelling "NOOOOOO."

Foes of Evolution Set Sights on New Target: Gravity

If a group of concerned parents gets its way, high school physics students may soon be required to learn about alternative explanations of gravity. The parents say that a one-sided focus on Newton's so-called universal law of gravitation is unfair to students who don't believe in gravity. If they prevail, physics teachers may be forced to read a statement acknowledging that our understanding of gravity is just a theory.

Is Einstein's 'theory of relativism' next?

By Cole Walters, education correspondent

DOVER, PA—It is a staple of high-school physics classes: the story of Isaac Newton's encounter with a certain apple. As scientific wisdom would have it, Sir Isaac was sitting beneath a tree one afternoon when the offending apple dropped down upon his head, leading him to coin an explanation of one of the universe's greatest mysteries: why do things fall out of the sky? Read on...

Called the universal theory of gravity, Newton's so-called law is taught to physics students everyday. But a growing movement of parents wants to change that. They say that Isaac Newton's theory of acceleration and velocity is just that—a theory—and that forcing students to accept a Newtonian view of the natural world is unfair to those who don't believe in gravity. 

Is Einstein's 'theory of relativism' next?

By Cole Walters, education correspondent

DOVER, PA—It is a staple of high-school physics classes: the story of Isaac Newton's encounter with a certain apple. As scientific wisdom would have it, Sir Isaac was sitting beneath a tree one afternoon when the offending apple dropped down upon his head, leading him to coin an explanation of one of the universe's greatest mysteries: why do things fall out of the sky? Read on...

Called the universal theory of gravity, Newton's so-called law is taught to physics students everyday. But a growing movement of parents wants to change that. They say that Isaac Newton's theory of acceleration and velocity is just that—a theory—and that forcing students to accept a Newtonian view of the natural world is unfair to those who don't believe in gravity.

Recovering Liberal

Legislation being proposed by Republican Congressman, James Sensenbrenner of Wisconsin will, if enacted, compel people to spy on their neighbors, family members and friends, essentially forcing average Americans to become foot soldiers in the NEO-Cons' misguided war on drugs.

Sensenbrenner's bill-H.R.1528-cynically named "Safe Access to Drug Treatment and Child Protection Act," would not only turn people into spies, "but also to go undercover and wear a wire if needed". If a person resisted, he or she would face mandatory prison time.

The bill, additionally, "establishes new draconian penalties for a variety of non-violent drug offenses", including:

• Five years for anyone who passes a marijuana joint at a party to someone who, at some point in his or her life, has been in drug treatment;
• Ten years for mothers with substance abuse problems who commit certain drug offenses at home (even if their children are not at home at the time);
• Five years for any person with substance abuse problems who begs a friend in drug treatment to find them some drugs.

These sentences would put non-violent drug offenders behind bars for as long as rapists, and they include none of the drug treatment touted in the bill's name

What horrifies me about this bill is not so much what it entails, but rather that for some unfathomable reason, the mainstream media ignored it.

Here, the largest end run against our cherished rights and privileges and the story could not make its way into the news cycle cluttered as it is with this whole Koran mess.

God help us!

Foes of Evolution Set Sights on New Target: Gravity

The Swift Report 

If a group of concerned parents gets its way, high school physics students may soon be required to learn about alternative explanations of gravity. The parents say that a one-sided focus on Newton's so-called universal law of gravitation is unfair to students who don't believe in gravity. If they prevail, physics teachers may be forced to read a statement acknowledging that our understanding of gravity is just a theory.  , including:

• Five years for anyone who passes a marijuana joint at a party to someone who, at some point in his or her life, has been in drug treatment;
• Ten years for mothers with substance abuse problems who commit certain drug offenses at home (even if their children are not at home at the time);
• Five years for any person with substance abuse problems who begs a friend in drug treatment to find them some drugs.

These sentences would put non-violent drug offenders behind bars for as long as rapists, and they include none of the drug treatment touted in the bill's name

What horrifies me about this bill is not so much what it entails, but rather that for some unfathomable reason, the mainstream media ignored it.

Here, the largest end run against our cherished rights and privileges and the story could not make its way into the news cycle cluttered as it is with this whole Koran mess.

God help us!