Day: July 22, 2005

An agreement was reached Thursday to extend daylight-saving time in an effort to conserve energy, but not to the extent the House approved in April.

Retiring U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor on Thursday said there was a new tendency in Congress to second-guess every decision by the high court and that has caused tension between the two branches of government.

Ignoring both protests from civil liberties groups and the U.S. Constitution, the House of Representatives renewed the USA Patriot Act Thursday, voting mostly along party lines, seeking to make permanent the government’s unprecedented powers to investigate U.S. citizens.

The bottom line is that nobody, including Roberts, knows what kind of justice he is likely to be. Not Bush. Not Democrats. Roberts will not be filibustered, and he will be confirmed. We can only hope, for everyone’s sake, that he proves to be a good justice.

Most Americans say the skyrocketing cost of gasoline will make them re-think their future car and truck purchases, according to a Scripps Howard News Service survey.

Want to land a bridesmaid? Carry a few fake Purple Hearts around and crash a wedding. That’s one of many tactics in the movie “Wedding Crashers” used by actors Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson to win over the ladies. But the idea crosses the line for some veterans and members of Congress, who will introduce legislation Friday to make such an act a federal offense.

Karl Rove played fast and loose with the law when he oh-so-casually dropped information about CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson on Time reporter Matthew Cooper but that screw up won’t cost him his job. People who control figureheads like Presidents don’t get fired.