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As part of immigration reform, the Feds are about to put in place an employment verification system that, if abused, could turn any American into an untouchable unable to find gainful employment in the United States. Sadly the phrase "You'll never work again in this town..." is about to take on a sinister new meaning.

Read the rest at Blognonymous.

Like a child caught lying, that when pressed stubbornly insists on repeating the same lie, President Neuman reiterated that Iraq is not in a state of civil war. But...by almost any objective measure the numbers simply don't add up.

Let's take two examples of acknowledged civil wars from the 20th century: One of the longest running, the Guatemalan Civil War and one of the bloodiest, the Bosnian secession from Yugoslavia.

Read the rest at Blognonymous and find out why Bu$hCo is full of sh*t!

Alito is on the court, and the SCOTUS is gearing up to reconsider the constitutionality of partial birth abortions. Let the rending of clothing and gnashing of teeth begin. But while were all whining about how awful the Scalitoson era will be, let's take breather and consider: The Rehnquist Court made 30 rulings in a decade that limited the power of the federal government, and Alito's appointment is likely to accelerate that trend. So instead of complaining, maybe we should capitalize.

The key is state's rights. No constitutional amendment is going to pass if the blue states don't want it to. ERA didn't, and a Federal gay marriage ban won't either. So I think its time we held the Republican's shoulders to the grindstone of state's rights until they bleed. Read all of the great ways Kvatch wants to piss off the conservatives at Blognonymous.

To be sure, the Abramoff affair tears at the very fabric of our republic, but I want to bring to your attention an even bigger scandal: A Couture of Corruption.

Let's face it, our founding fathers were snappy dressers. George Washington? Alexander Hamilton? Veritable fashion plates. But in comparison, Abramoff's corrupt conspirators are schlubs; red-staters unfit for the red-carpet.

Read all the lurid details at Blognonymous.

Blognonymous has obtained an advance copy of the President's State of the Union address:

My fellow Americans, tonight I'd like report to you on the state of our glorious union, but frankly many of you don't seem to feel that things are going well, and so I'm takin' steps to correct that.

World-wide, we're fighting the unending battles of the War on T'rrorism. The t'rrorists are on the run, but of course I can't talk about that because...well...because most of it's classified. Now I know that some Americans think that the situation in Iraq isn't too great. So just to make sure that our media doesn't give any aid or comfort to the enemy, I'm hereby classifying all news from the Middle East...

It's no longer academic, Bill Smith, the CTO of BellSouth Corp. has admitted that they are in active discussions with content providers about levying additional charges for reliability and speed.

Blognonymous posted on this back when it was still "a point of view" being put forward by executives of BellSouth and AT&T, but no longer. We're seeing the end of the Internet, as a neutral carrier for content and services, unfold before our eyes. Does anyone really believe that once "pay-for-performance" is in place the telcos won't use this to their advantage? Of course not. The ramifications are staggering, and you can check 'em out at Blognonymous.

Before Bush ramps up his '06 agenda, it's time to preempt one of the more stupid proposals he's sure to make. You listening Mr. President? OK. Here goes...

I don't want to hear another word out of your stinkin' pie-hole about Social Security. You and your advisors couldn't predict what will happen with that program if you had a time-machine and could go and see for yourselves. So I'm here to tell you that I've had enough. I'll do my duty with respect to my parents, but when they're done so am I.

Read the rest of Kvatch's proposal at Blognonymous.

On Monday Robert Steinback wrote an opinion piece for the Miami Herald that got picked up and repeated ad nauseam all over the Blogsphere. Even prominent left-leaning sites like Salon and Smirking Chimp reprinted it. The gist was that Mr. Steinback feels blindsided by all the illegal, unconstitutional, immoral acts that the Bush administration engages in under the guise of fighting the so-called War on Terror. He moans and whines about this being, "No America that I know," and Boing Boing, for their part, calls it "stirring".

You know what I call it: Self-indulgent, hand-wringing bullshit that comes at least three goddamned years too late! The signs that America had fundamentally changed were all around us way before 9/11, and anyone who couldn't see them was either a moron or a member of the administration... And, in the remainder of his last post for this year, Kvatch comes unglued. Read it here.

This evening we've got a pair of disturbing articles describing far reaching surveillance programs that violate constitutional guarantees against unlawful searches and seizures.

First up...the NY Times (subscription required, sorry) is reporting that, in the months after 9/11, Bu$hCo authorized the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on hundreds of Americans without court orders. Second, reports from NBC shed additional light on a Pentagon program that identifies and monitors anti-war protestors and organizations.

As the b*llshit piles higher and deeper, the question is no longer what this administration will do under the guise of fighting terrorism but rather what Bu$hCo won't do. Read why at Blognonymous.

If telcos get their way, they'll implement a "pay-for-performance" marketplace that gives preference to content providers willing to improve the bottom line. In other words if you're Google, megabucks in the bank, you'll get to pay to have your packets delivered ahead of everyone else's.

In a nutshell folks, this would be he end of the Internet as we know it, and legislation before the House Energy and Commerce Committee right now may make it so.

Check out what SBC CTO, William Smith and Edward Whitacre of AT&T think about pay-for-performance and how they'll use it to stifle competition, here.

Starting your first conservative blog? Well good for you! We need all the conservatives we can get here in the blogsphere because, let's face it, you can't drown out the liberals unless you make a BIG NOISE! So to help you out, we here at Blognonymous have compiled some helpful hints to make your blogging as pleasant as possible.

Yes indeed. Just follow these simple rules, and were sure that you'll be on your way to becoming a "Large, taloned, red-blooded, meat-eating predator," in the Truth Laid Bear Ecosystem in no time.

Click to check out Blognonymous' helpful hints for conservative bloggers.

So now we know how Condeleezza Rice is going to address the growing firestorm in Europe over secret prisons and CIA transport flights. She dropped the bomb this morning just before leaving the US, saying that: "The intelligence so gathered has stopped terrorist attacks and saved innocent lives -- in Europe as well as in the United States and other countries."

Yup. This is going to be a productive trip for the Secretary of State. More at Blognonymous...

There is one argument against the death penalty, that should unite opponents, as well as supporters--a reason that cuts across all political, social, economic, and racial boundaries. Bluntly stated it is this: Governments simply cannot be trusted to decide what constitutes a capital crime because that power has been abused throughout history. Today it's murder, but tomorrow it might be public indecency.

Read the whole post at Blognonymous.

Haven't seen much coverage of this in the MSM or the Blogs, but the Centers for Disease Control is preparing to mandate the gathering of personal information on an unprecedented scale.

Under the guise of preparing to combat a pandemic, CDC wants to force airlines to track...well...everything about you and your travels and to make the data available in databases that CDC would have direct access to. In fact, the information they want eclipses what is currently gathered by the Dept. of Homeland Security...

Check out the list and the dangers at Blognonymous.

I don't know if this is happening where you live, but I've noticed a new low in bad cell phone behavior: Calls from the crapper-what might be referred to as the Potty Call.

It happens like this, some idiot who can't stand to be off his cell, not even for one minute, enters the men's, whips out his pecker, and takes a piss, all the while continuing to blab on his phone. Can you believe this!? A call that is sooooo important that you can't even put the callee on hold while you do your business!

Check out the rest of this post at Blognonymous.