OK, it’s not quite like that, but a court ruling that slipped under the noise of failing banks, a rallying stock market, and the All-Star Game this week has effectively granted the president the power to imprison civilians legally in the United States simply by declaring them enemy combatants.

That’s imprisoned indefinitely. As in forever.

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The funny thing about the horizon is that no matter how far you travel, it’s still waaaaay off in the distance.

No matter what the president says about a timeline for withdrawing from Iraq, we’re not going anywhere. The United States has far too much money invested in oil infrastructure, huge new military bases, and a palatial embassy on the banks of the Tigris to turn the country over to somebody else, even the people who live there.

Keep that in mind, liberals, when President Obama takes over the job of decider-in-chief.

This is unconscionable: 13 American soldiers have been electrocuted since 2003 because Kellogg, Brown & Root, a major Pentagon contractor (from Texas, surprise, surprise) responsible for providing basic services to soldiers in Iraq, installed wiring at U.S. bases on the cheap.

According to electricians who worked for KBR, the company hired subcontractors with little electrical expertise to supervise workers who didn’t speak English. During the last six months of last year, at least 283 electrical fires damaged or destroyed American bases in Iraq.

It’s not a new problem; an Army survey published in February of ‘07 said that electrical shock was the number-one noncombat safety hazard faced by American soldiers in Iraq.

This is one of those times I hope for swift and terrible justice, but it doesn’t usually work that way in this world. But “‘Vengeance is mine,’ saith the Lord; ‘I will repay.’”