Win Some, Lose Some

Last week, Dubya won a fairly decisive election to lock up four more years and some "political capital." Well, this week, his luck's not so good. A federal judge has entered a ruling that may halt all the "military tribunals" being conducted for prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. Basically, the judge ruled that the Geneva Conventions - the 1949 agreement between nations that set the ground rules for war - required that the Gitmo detainees be treated as prisoners of war with certain rights that have, up to this point, been denied. The Government will appeal. You can read the ruling for yourself here.