Oct
31
It Begins
October 31, 2005 | Leave a Comment
First of all, excellent pick, Mr. President. I have to tip my hat to him for getting it right, and for disregarding gender politics. Kudos.
Second, as Gipper predicted, the left-wing bashing has begun in earnest. Feddie is compiling some gems over on Confirm Them. A few of my favorites thus far:
“This [...]
Oct
29
A bigot and a coward
October 29, 2005 | Leave a Comment
The other night I referenced this disgusting post from blogger Steve Gilliard. The original depicted Maryland Senatorial candidate Michael Steele as a minstrel performer, with black face painted over a, well, black face. The imlplication is that Mr. Steele is not authentically black because he has the temerity to be a conservative Republican. [...]
Oct
28
Leftist distortions
October 28, 2005 | Leave a Comment
Seeing as how I didn’t have internet access all day, I actually plunked down $1.00 today to read the New York Times because I was interested in reading Hugh Hewitt’s article. I was set to write a response, but so many others have done so already, and I think I’d rather concentrate my fire [...]
Oct
27
Comments restored
October 27, 2005 | Leave a Comment
Comment away as before.
Oct
26
Sox Win
October 26, 2005 | Leave a Comment
Congratulations to the 2005 World Champion Chicago White Sox. Another “curse” falls by the wayside.
Does this mean the Cubs will win next year?
Nah, didn’t think so.
Oct
26
This is why I drink
October 26, 2005 | Leave a Comment
We undeniable [sic] still have a justice system that does not provide justice for all as provided by the Pledge of Allegiance. One justice for the rich, one justice for the poor. One justice sometimes for minorities, one for whites.
Have you ever been torn between laughing and crying? On the one hand, this comment is so [...]
Oct
26
Moonbat howls as black politician dares to have independent thought
October 26, 2005 | Leave a Comment
As I have mentioned previously, despite what I see as Bush’s clear betrayal of the base on the Miers nomination, I refuse to completely abandon the GOP. Or, more precisely, I will continue to actively support good candidates.
With my move to Maryland next week, I will have the honor, about a year [...]
Oct
26
Jack’s Back!!!
October 26, 2005 | Leave a Comment
I saw the commercial last night, and now it’s in print. The countdown to the new season of 24 begins, and you can view a teaser as well. Yee-haw!
Oct
25
Bloggers of the world - unite!
October 25, 2005 | Leave a Comment
Alexandra at All Things Beautiful thinks that I might be a closet socialist. (Scroll way, way down, past the update jump). And what the hell is Orin Kerr doing in bed with me? Get out!
Oct
25
Hugh Hewitt’s last stand
October 25, 2005 | Leave a Comment
I’m going to link to my Confirm Them post from last night picking apart Hugh Hewitt’s latest efforts. It’s a bit long, but so was the piece I was refuting. Afterwards, you can perform Professor Bainbridge’s homework assignment.
Oct
24
Ethics
October 24, 2005 | Leave a Comment
Haloscan is on the fritz (what else is new), so I will have to respond to repeal’s post below here.
Clinton was actually guilty of a crime. DeLay probably is not, though I have no idea about Libby/Rove, but if they’re guilty, punish them.
Again, if DeLay happens to be guilty, I don’t care [...]
Oct
24
Just in case there was any doubt
October 24, 2005 | Leave a Comment
I think I speak for all of my co-bloggers, perhaps not, but I oppose the Miers nomination.
The reasons why have been expressed before. My dissertation adviser said it best:
But law, unlike politics, is inescapably an intellectual exercise, and reason is the bedrock of the rule of law. It is about the careful articulation of [...]
Oct
22
The Coburn 15
October 22, 2005 | Leave a Comment
Re my post the other day about the Coburn amendment, courtesy of Powerline, here are the 15 Senators who did the right thing and voted for the amendments:
Allard (R-CO), Allen (R-VA), Bayh (D-IN), Burr (R-NC), Coburn (R-OK), Conrad (D-ND), DeMint (R-SC), DeWine (R-OH), Feingold (D-WI), Graham (R-SC), Kyl (R-AZ), Landrieu (D-LA), Sessions (R-AL)Sununu (R-NH), Vitter [...]
Oct
22
George Will column
October 22, 2005 | Leave a Comment
Here is that George Will columns we’ve been hearing about. He utterly destroys the arguments put forward by the Miers’ supporters. Some examples:
Miers’s advocates, sensing the poverty of other possibilities, began by cynically calling her critics sexist snobs who disdain women with less than Ivy League degrees. Her advocates certainly know that her [...]
Oct
21
Pure Genius
October 21, 2005 | Leave a Comment
I have refrained from commenting much on the Tom DeLay indictment. It’s still early in the process, so much yet may be revealed. But between the clear partisanship of the DA, said DA’s on-camera pontification (I”m gonna be a movie-star), the grand jury shopping, and the fact that DeLay may have been indicted [...]
Oct
20
I feel a rant coming on
October 20, 2005 | Leave a Comment
Whenever I get down about politics, whenever I feel totally distraught about the current political climate, all I have to do is read some ignorant piece of drivel like this and I feel just a little bit better.
Who are you to judge? Who are you to say that the more than slightly creepy 39-year-old woman [...]
Oct
20
Promises, promises
October 20, 2005 | Leave a Comment
Senator Ted Stevens threatened to resign from the Senate if it passed a series of amendments sponsored by Senator Tom Coburn designed to eliminate some of the pork spending recently passed, including the precious “bridge to nowhere.”
Sadly, all three amendments failed, thus we will not have the pleasure of seeing Senator Stevens walking out [...]
Oct
20
The Invisible Clause
October 20, 2005 | Leave a Comment
This nomination is getting worse by the day.
The proportional representation requirement of the Equal Protection Clause? I must have missed that. Is that there next to the privacy clause?
Oct
20
Cohen on Roe
October 20, 2005 | Leave a Comment
Richard Cohen has a startling op-ed in the Washington Post. Cohen is pro-choice, but he does not believe that Roe should continue to be upheld.
That shift in sentiment is not apparent in polls because they do not measure doubt, only position: for or against. But between one and the other, black or white, is [...]
Oct
19
DoDo head
October 19, 2005 | Leave a Comment
Lucky me, I get the New York Times at work. So, I can plunk down my nothing a month in order to access Brooks, Tierney and Friedman.
Friedman’s column was a sharp and critical look at how a delgation of Iraqis might view our politics. Some of the criticsm was unfair, particularly [...]