A brand new webpage, Open Congress, plans to report on daily Congressional activities, with frequent updates as the situation requires. In Mr Bu$h’s streamlined 21st century America, a revitalized and active Congress may be our nation’s only hope of salvation.

OpenCongress brings together official government information with news and blog coverage to give you the real story behind what's happening in Congress. Small groups of political insiders and lobbyists know what's really going on in Congress. Now, everyone can be an insider. OpenCongress is a free, open-source, non-profit, and non-partisan web resource with a mission to help make Congress more transparent and to encourage civic engagement. OpenCongress is a joint project of the Sunlight Foundation and the Participatory Politics Foundation.

Two proposed bills highlighted this morning feature efforts by two Florida legislators (R’s, naturally) to establish national standards allowing residents of one state to carry concealed firearms in other states (HR 861), after guaranteeing that anyone not prohibited by the Brady Law (HR 73) may not be prohibited from buying and using firearms in the interests of “personal security.”

This is just what we need. The nationalization of Florida’s “Castle Law.”

Yes, indeed, now you too may have the right to shoot to kill anyone you don’t like the look of when you open your front door.

A tip of the too-small Kevlar helmet to the amazing ChiDyke.