A week after England used electronic surveillance to stop a plot to blow up 10 airliners, a Detroit judge ruled the practice unconstitutional in the United States.
Electronic eavesdropping, not blowing up jetliners.
U.S. District Court Judge Anna Diggs Taylor channeled the founding fathers to reason that president Bush does "have shit all over him", therefore, he cannot be a king.

Am I imagining things or is there a 4-letter word in Chip's
comments?
This is a Monty Python and the Holy Grail allusion: "How can you tell he's a king?" Don't get us started or we'll demand that you bring us a shrubbery.
O.k., I put quotes around it and made it the link to the Holy Grail page. I think bad words and naughty bits have a place in context. I just don't want the thing to degenerate into the soundtrack for Deadwood http://www.hbo.com/deadwood/.
Chip,Deb,
I'm sure mencken didn't expect this post to be treated as some kind of Spanish Inquisition.
Shew….NO ONE expects the Spanish Inquisition!
The Rat knows of which he speaks.
Shew! Glad to know you are checking in. I was afrain Mencken was the only guy on line.
That's my fear as well Deb.
Deb,
I asssumed that mencken was your alter ego, created to generate traffic on this site. I didn't think a real person would post under another person's name. I mean I would post under the name Tiger if I thought that it would help my golf game, but I don't think that it would.