The Senate Republicans have tapped Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) to replace the newly Democratic Arlen Specter as the Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee. The position has added importance in wake of Justice Souter’s announced retirement. Sessions will act as the opposition to committee chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) during the upcoming Senate confirmation hearings for Souter’s as yet undecided replacement.

I’m absolutely convinced that somewhere amongst the large pile of Bush administration torture documents is a memo giving Jonah Goldberg legal cover for doing horrible, unspeakable things to basic logic. How else can one account for his misrepresentation and misappropriation of the legacy of Jack Kemp, which he accomplishes by putting said logic through contortions that would outdo a spasmodic python?