Congratulations to Say Uncle and Say Aunt for their new young ‘un.

A Texas woman becomes the first to be prosecuted under a law against delivery of marijuana to a minor . . . in her womb. The statute provides for a punishment of two to twenty years in prison.
A couple questions about this:
(1) If the state is pursuing an objective of protecting the health of “an unborn child at every state of gestation from fertilization until birth,” does it also criminalize tobacco smoking?
(2) Is imprisoning a newborn’s mother really in the child’s best long-term interest?

This isn’t exactly hardcore journalism, but we can have a little fun here at Resonance every now and then, can’t we?
Atrios posted a Photoshop-enhanced picture of the notes in front of President Bush during the cabinet meeting Thursday. The text is difficult to make out, but a number of commenters took a stab at figuring out what it says. Commenter Jimm offers what may be as good a guess as any for the left page:

Saddam was a threat.
Sworn enemy of US.
Destabilizing force.
Volatile part of world.
Has weapons of mass destruction used them.
Ties to terrorist orgs.
Contact with Al Qaeda over past decade.

What do you know, here’s Bush’s response to a question during the press Q & A:

THE PRESIDENT: The reason I keep insisting that there was a relationship between Iraq and Saddam and al Qaeda, because there was a relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda. This administration never said that the 9/11 attacks were orchestrated between Saddam and al Qaeda. We did say there were numerous contacts between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda. For example, Iraqi intelligence officers met with bin Laden, the head of al Qaeda, in the Sudan. There’s numerous contacts between the two.
I always said that Saddam Hussein was a threat. He was a threat because he had used weapons of mass destruction against his own people. He was a threat because he was a sworn enemy to the United States of America, just like al Qaeda. He was a threat because he had terrorist connections — not only al Qaeda connections, but other connections to terrorist organizations; Abu Nidal was one. He was a threat because he provided safe-haven for a terrorist like Zarqawi, who is still killing innocent inside of Iraq.
No, he was a threat, and the world is better off and America is more secure without Saddam Hussein in power.

This answer follows the script fairly closely. Bush has been repeating these talking points for how long? And he still needs to use notes? That can’t be right, can it?

The Onion:

According to key members of the Bush Administration, the tragic proceedings of the 9/11 commission, which devastated the political lives of numerous government officials, could have been averted with preventive action in 2002 and 2003.
“A few adept legislative maneuvers could have saved the reputations of hundreds,” President Bush’s counterterrorism chief Fran Townsend told reporters Monday. “Had we foreseen the dangers of the commission’s deceptively simple requests, we could have spared dozens of victims from the shocking, public mangling of their careers.”

Read the rest.

Yet more evidence of America’s strong public policy against illegal immigration:

The world’s largest financial services group [Citigroup] said Tuesday that the new program would allow Mexican residents to benefit from credit lines granted to Citigroup’s U.S. clients and to withdraw cash from American accounts.

All migrant workers need is a photo ID and a permanent U.S. address. With the account they can more easily send money back to the folks at home. And send it they do; 1 in 5 Mexicans receive money from someone working in the U.S.
With accommodations like this being installed, does anyone think we’re going to take any effective steps in curbing the flow of immigrants across the border?