Federal officials have arrested a suspect in a bombing attempt that targeted a Martin Luther King Jr. Day march in Spokane, Wash.

Kevin William Harpham, 36, of Colville, Wash., was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction and possession of an unregistered explosive device. If convicted, Harpham faces life in prison.

Officials released few details on what Frank Harrill, special agent in charge of the FBI's Spokane office, described as a "very active" investigation. U.S. Atty. Michael Ormsby said agents searched Harpham's 10-acre property in rural Stevens County, north of Spokane, on Wednesday. Neither he nor Harrill would say whether more arrests were expected.

The Southern Poverty Law Center, a nonprofit that tracks hate groups, identified Harpham as a onetime member of the white supremacist National Alliance. Representatives of the National Alliance did not respond to a request for comment. Authorities declined to say whether Harpham had ties to white supremacist groups.

It's not just the budget bill needs a quorum -- the big issue is that any bill with fiscal implications is supposed to have a quorum in the Wisconsin state Senate. So there are two choices here:

1. Collective bargaining has fiscal implications, and so the bill will be blocked in the courts and ruled unconstitutional.

2. Collective bargaining DOES NOT have direct fiscal implications, and Gov. Walker has been lying this entire time by making the case that it's fiscally necessary.

So either the state R's just passed an illegal bill, or Walker has been lying this entire time and really is just interested in union-busting.

I can't figure out why they are pushing the "Paul" guy. He can't sing. They just like his looks and mannerisms. Really a waste of a wildcard vote on him, I would rather they had picked Brett Lowenstern or even Robbie.

I don't and can't keep of with TV because I travel a lot, but I do download shows that I am interested in like "Smallville and Downton Abbey."

I found out about "Justified" when the season was essentially finished, with about 1 show to go.  I downloaded the earlier ones and loved them.

Where I was raised as a kid, we had some legends about US Marshals.  One true one was that all the cops in the local city were stymied because there was a very vicious black drug dealer holed up in a big frame house with some of his relatives and friends.  He was a dangerous man.  The city cops, and the State police were all milling around behind cars and barricades while the elected officials were working on plans to keep the expected carnage down to as few dead bodies as possible.  This was a southern town and they knew that if they killed a lot of blacks then they would get a lot of bad publicity. They were worried about new industry shying away from a place where the NAACP and the ACLU, etc. were picketing and marching.

Anyway, they called the nearby FBI for advice and the FBI called the Marshals.  2 came and after finding out what was going on, the Marshals walked up on the porch, and one waited while the other a big black Marshall with a large long barreled 44 caliber revolver walked up to the door, kicked it down, waved back all the people in the house with the revolver and found the "suspect" hiding in a bathroom, laid that big barrel across his head once knocking him silly and then dragged him out the house.  Once he came out the door the other Marshall grabbed the suspect and dragged him to the street to resounding cheers from the onlookers.

But it was class all around, Big East officials addmitted the two big errors, & Rutgers Coach Rice gave an uber-classy press conference.

1. The DNC rules agreed to at the outset say that only 50% of the delegates from FL would be counted.  Given that formula, does Hillary win the nomination if the original DNC rules are followed?

2. Were both Obama and Hillary advocating for a change in the agreed upon DNC rules allocating the delegates on a 50% formula?

3. Given 1 and 2, can the eventual agreed upon allocation, approved by both candidates, be viewed as a theft of votes by the DNC somehow or the DNC's unfair changing of the rules?

I think that is a very logical and supportable position for any democrat to take.  You were in a position where any outcome was going to be unfair to someone. If the seating of 50% of the delegates in FL and MI had changed the picture, I think I would have a completely different take, but it would not have.  Obama was going to win if no delegates were counted and he was going to win if 50% of the delegates were counted.  The only "Hillary Wins" scenario is one in which the DNC rules are broken in the other direction and ALL the votes are counted.

In the discussions on this topic, I've been told that if I read more about the issue, etc., I'd believe that the evil Howard Dean, Pelosi and their henchmen screwed the voters of FL and MI (and Hillary) and robbed the nomination from her far more deserving hands.

But given my position above, I hope those here can understand why such talk rubs a real nerve, especially in a world where many PUMAs decided to vote for McCain rather than Obama, Tea Partiers question the man's birth certificate and the common meme (even here) is that he's a liar who is really a closet republican and that even a republican POTUS would be better than him.

The bottom line of it all is a massive distrust or Obama, refusal to see him as legitimate, both as president and as the party leader, and a general attempt to make him into a force for evil every bit as dastardly as Bush.

It's really depressing to see that kind of thing from folks I generally agree with on most issues. The negativity towards him by certain corners of the liberal blogosphere is highly unusual I think and something you just wouldn't see on the right, even from those conservatives who disagree with their party leaders.

There is fair criticism of policy and then there is this weird "he's not one of us" meme that seems to me to be completely unjustified.  When DADT repeal legislation was passed and many tried to do  whatever they could to deny Obama any credit, it said a lot. On the conservative side, even if Bush didn't deserve 100% credit for pushing some conservative initiative, I think you'd be hard pressed to find a material segment of republicans actively trying to DENY him any credit.  It was just weird.  And when I look for reasons for why it happens, the reasons I come up with are likely those tied up with what I call Obama Legitimacy Denial Syndrome.

"A senior Saudi prince questioned the need for a ban on women driving on Wednesday and said lifting it would be a quick first step to reduce the Islamic kingdom's dependence on millions of foreign workers."

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Ahhh, there's something ironic to me about using the fear of immigrants to implement social reforms.  But... it is what it is I guess, it might actually work.

"Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, a nephew of King Abdullah and advocate of his reforms, said the kingdom could send some 750,000 foreign drivers home if women could drive.

I'll also be interested to see how he handles the Hoover vs RFK matter (and the actor to play RFK is unfamiliar to me).  Most people get the actual history wrong, and Eastwood doesn't strike me as a careful scholarly type, but we'll see.  

"The Senate rejected a Republican-backed House budget with its deep spending cuts yesterday as well as a Democratic alternative with milder reductions amid warnings that a compromise may elude America's leaders, despite their repeated pledges to work together."

"The large class of 87 freshman House Republicans, many of whom were empowered by the conservative Tea Party movement, find "it's morally corrupt to compromise'' on a core item such as spending cuts, he said.