One of the names often mentioned as pundits speculated who President Bush would name to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor was J. Harvie Wilkinson of the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals. Wilkinson authored an op-ed piece in yesterday's Washington Post cautioning against efforts to amend state and the federal constitution to prohibit […]
Mary Mapes, the BDS-suffering political hack who destroyed CBS's credibility and Dan Rather's career in an effort to swing the 2004 presidential election, has got a new job -- with Rather at Dallas Mavericks owner's Mark Cuban's HDNet cable channel. *UPDATE* In what I'm going to call a "fake, but accurate" moment, Mapes is denying […]
I'm probably the last person out in the blogosphere to read Robert Ferrigno's "Prayers for the Assassin." Where Syne Mitchell's "The Last Mortal Man" (see below) describes an intriguing future that can make you a little uncomfortable, Ferrigno's "Prayers for the Assassin" is a future that is a heckuva lot scarier. Ferrigno's adventure takes place […]
I've been burning through a few books in the past week, but haven't really had the opportunity to write my mini book reports. I finished Syne Mitchell's "The Last Mortal Man" yesterday afternoon, and the only thing I'm kicking myself over is the fact that I didn't notice until I was already invested in the […]
Before being adopted by some on the loony left to refer half-heartedly to Bush-won red states, the phrase was used to refer to the fight against communism -- aka the red menace. There were people in the West who would rather die than accept a tyrannical nihilist rule. In today's Chicago Sun-Times, columnist Mark Steyn […]
I just got finished watching the Santorum/Casey debate on this morning's "Meet the Press" on NBC. Yes, I'm biased, but I think Santorum won this one in a rout. The part of the debate that really got my blood boiling was Casey's willful obfuscation on Social Security reform. Casey repeated the Paul Krugman/John Kerry lines […]
It's been nearly a week since The Nation's David Corn and Newsweek's Michael Isikoff revealed that the original leaker of CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity was Richard Armitage -- and that said leak was not part of an effort by the White House at payback for her husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, blowing the whistle […]
Both of them require government (campus or state) control over Christian groups. Or did, Georgetown has kicked six protestant Christian groups off campus. Officials of the Catholic university said that they felt unable to keep track of precisely how the groups were ministering to students and that group officials had not attended school-run religious services […]
It just comes from an unexpeced source. A man convicted of sexually assaulting an Indonesian housekeeper and keeping her virtually as a slave was sentenced Thursday to 27 years to life in prison. Homaidan Al-Turki, 37, denied the charges and blamed anti-Muslim prejudice for the case against him. He said prosecutors persuaded the housekeeper to […]
The 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals ruled today that Zachery Guiles can wear a T-shirt to school that labels President Bush the "Chicken-Hawk-In-Chief" and accuses him of being a cocaine addict and drunkard. In other news, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals -- the one with all the liberal, free speech absolutists -- still thinks […]