The much-maligned Kelo decision which eviscerated the Constitution's property protections wasn't supposed to have much of an effect here in California. Unlike some other states, California already prohibited cities, counties, school boards and other public entities from taking private property from one person in order to give it to another unless the property was "blighted." […]
Louisiana's fatally incompetent governor, Kathleen Blanco, not only barred the Red Cross from providing food, water and other basic necessities to evacuees at the Superdome and New Orleans Convention Center last week as conditions there quickly deteriorated, but also the Salvation Army. Why? Because she didn't want people to get too comfy. The Salvation Army […]
Fox News' Major Garrett reported Wednesday that Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco refused the Red Cross permission to bring food, water and other supplies to victims of Hurricane Katrina at the Superdome and New Orleans convention center. From an interview on Hugh Hewitt's radio show, courtesy Radioblogger: MG: Well, the Red Cross, Hugh, had pre-positioned a […]
The California Legislature, in defiance of a popularly enacted prohibition on same sex marriage just five years ago, has decided a solid majority of California voters can pound sand. I don't know that yesterday's vote will result in a backlash against Democrats in the next election cycle, what with the gerrymandered districts which guarantee that […]
If he's breathing he's lying. That's something that Powerline's John Hinderaker found out when he went to check out New York Times columnist Krugman's assertion that USS Bataan, a multipurpose amphibious assault ship, was never mobilized to help victims of Hurricane Katrina. Don't expect a correction to be forthcoming. The New York Times editorial page […]
Fox News' Neil Cavuto has New Age wacko Deepak Chopra on to talk about Hurricane Katrina's aftermath or something -- the second Chopra came on I turned the channel. Why? Because Chopra is a frauda. I first saw Chopra on the Oprah Winfrey show in the summer of 1993. I was renting a room while […]
In the wake of William Rehnquist's death and John Roberts' subsequent shift to filling the chief justice vacancy, senators Chuck Schumer, John Corzine and Teddy Kennedy have said that this raises the stakes for his nomination. "The chief justice is the most important judge in the country, with even more responsibility for the protection of […]
Now that John Roberts will be replacing the late Chief Justice William Rehnquist, the fever swamps on the left will quit their carping about how John Roberts, as Sandra Day O'Connor's replacement, has to be a moderate and the balance on the court mustn't be changed. I won't hold my breath. Why? Because Sen. Chuck […]
Last night on Fox News Channel, Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz -- a disgusting human being -- too the opportunity to comment on Supreme Court Justice William Rehnquist's death to call him a "Republican thug" amid a tirade of lies, half-truths and fantasy. I hadn't imagined that the lunatic left had reached so far.
On "Fox News Sunday" this morning, reporter James Rosen had a short piece on the late chief justice and relayed a humorous story. When interviewing William Rehnquist four years ago, Rosen asked him why Americans sued each other so much. Rosen's father is a personal-injury lawyer -- apparently well-known enough that Rehnquist knew of him. […]