Reportedly, Congressional and White House negotiators have agreed to the the basics of a FISA renewal bill that is, in essence, pretty much a warmed-over version of what Kit Bond proposed months ago.

The only diff is that district courts involved with actual lawsuits, and not the FISA court, would make the immunity calls.

More at my blog, including an appeal to Obama to filibuster, should this get to the Senate floor.

Ira Isaacs may be in the middle of the most serious obscenity trial in the U.S. in years if not decades, Judge Kozinski aside.

You can read my take on it as part of my regular Friday SCATblogging series, a takeoff on Friday catblogging by Kevin Drum and others.

Re the star of this week's TPM Cafe, she's a little light in the loafers for her blind support of faith-based programs, even to the point of denigrating stalwart defenders of church-state separation.