Where were you ....

Where were you when you first heard Dick Cheney shot a man in the face?

I'm feeling a little odd today, so here are a few quickhits.

The WaPo has a pretty obvious piece that the Republican's choosing immigration as their election issue is going to cost them Hispanic votes. (The "survey" has a pretty small sample size.) I think that the fact that this issue emerged at all is evidence of congressional Republicans looking out for their own reelection over the strength of their party.

Al Gonzales was talking about prosecuting reporters for publishing classified information this morning. Check the quote, by creatively interpreting the laws, we can do this, and we have an obligation to enforce that creative interpretation. He also said that the administration "will not hesitate to track telephone calls made by reporters."

William Lind had an interesting commentary that the US's retreat to "superbases" in Iraq runs counter to the more successful "inkblot" strategy for dealing with insurgencies. I found the tactical vs. strategic, an interesting discussion.

This was in the WSJ yesterday, "Since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, law enforcement efforts to secure corporate information about clients and suppliers have reached such levels that some companies have had to create special units that do nothing but deal with these demands, a process often called "subpoena management."

Last, the LaTimes has a piece on soldiers reenlisting after taking a look at the world outside the military, "For Kruger, who returned to a war zone for his third tour in December, the danger of losing his family's health insurance was more real and immediate than the danger of dying in combat."

That's about all I've got in me right now. Happy reading. Hope there's something there that catches your interest. - Mike