The Senate today confirmed John Roberts to be chief justice of the Supreme Court by a vote of 78-22. I must confess that he got more Democrat support than I predicted. I suspect this is because Roberts ended up replacing the late Chief Justice William Rehnquist, and not the retiring Sandra Day O'Connor. The talk […]
Neil Cavuto is interviewing Congressman Barney Frank on the DeLay indictment and the corrupt Republicans. The criticism is coming from a guy whose gay lover was operating an "escort service" out of the congressman's apartment. Couldn't they have gotten a stand-up Democrat who doesn't have some taint of scandal of some sort to appear on […]
GOP majority leader Tom DeLay has been indicted for violating a Texas campaign finance law. I don't know if DeLay is guilty, but I'm more than a little bit skeptical because this prosecutor has a history of using the law for partisan gain. Among the politicians he has tangled with is Republican Sen. Kay Bailey […]
The New York Times isn't putting its editorials behind its TimesSelect wall of silence -- maybe it should. An editorial in today's Times urges readers to "connect the dots" on global warming and its influence on hurricanes. Hurricanes derive their strength from warm ocean waters. Ocean temperatures have been rising over the last 100 years, […]
The New York Times yesterday published an article assailing John Roberts over a memo that he wrote criticizing the Supreme Court's decision in New York Times v. Sullivan. There was just one problem with the article -- Roberts didn't write the memo that was the basis of the article, Bruce Fein did. An article yesterday […]
Idiots in a West Yorkshire, Great Britain, hospital have attempted to ban people from cooing at babies. A West Yorkshire hospital has banned visitors from cooing at new-born babies over fears their human rights are being breached and to reduce infection. A statement from Calderdale Royal Hospital in Halifax said staff had held an advice […]
The French have arrested nine terror suspects who were allegedly planning to blow up the Paris subway. Terror suspects detained in France had been eyeing up the Parisian metro network, an airport and the headquarters of the domestic intelligence service as possible targets, sources close to the investigation said. The suspicions were based on an […]
I've gotten some flak for referring to last weekend's protests in Washington, D.C. and elsewhere around the country as being populated by the loony left. Of course, the critics aren't members of the loony left and don't go to the protests. I've said it before: there are honest liberals who disagree with the war in […]
The New York Times has decided that it is time for a modified, limited rowback on the Geraldo libel. The TV Watch column on Sept. 5 discussed broadcast journalists' undisguised outrage at the failings of Hurricane Katrina rescue efforts. It said reporters had helped stranded victims because no police officers or rescue workers were around, […]
I just got back from seeing "Serenity." Part of Universal's effort to generate buzz for the flick was reaching out to bloggers by offering an advance screening -- apparently they believe that we have some sway with people who read our sites. I came into the theater as a late-to-the-party fan of the TV series. […]