Arnold Schwarzenegger signed an emergency order in October allowing the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitations to move volunteers among the state's 174,000 prisoners to detention sites in Arizona and Tennessee. [read post]

After the Radical Right spent years attacking progressives as the "Loony Left" and "moonbats," I can't say this is not making me smile: It's the wrong strategy, being pursued and driven by all the usual suspects: social conservatives; immigration fanatics; ethically-challenged pork addicts who the former two groups are now calling "moderates" in a fatuous and cynical attempt to portray themselves as the party's real standard bearers, which… [read post]