Ramesh Ponnuru reveals today over at National Review Online that Justice John Paul Stevens got suckered in the recent Hamdan decision. In deciding how to read the amendment, Justice Stevens, writing for the Court, looked at senators’ statements, among other things. Here he encountered a problem: The senators disagreed. Senators Lindsey Graham and Jon Kyl, […]
...give the rest a bad name. Yes, it's an old joke but it's strangely appropriate in light of a lawsuit filed today in Detroit. A bunch of "civil rights leaders" are suing Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice claiming they failed to protect Americans who happened to be vacationing in […]
If it wasn't obvious before now, the United Nations is at best useless and at worst an impediment to peace in the world. How else to explain U.N. humanitarian coordinator Jan Egeland's (pictured indicating his total IQ) announcement that Israel has violated "humanitarian law" by trying to defend itself from Hezbollah. Talk about clueless. Hezbollah […]
According to Michelle Malkin, NBC's Chris Matthews -- who has his own show that people occassionally watch -- said that if neoconservatives had "been in a schoolyard fight in high school like they should've been, we wouldn't be seeing the world we're getting from them today." Bolshevik Storytelling. As Thomas Sowell so powerfully argued in […]
The Episcopal bishop of Arkansas of all places has given his subordinates the go-ahead to "bless" homosexual "unions." At St. Michael's in Little Rock, the Rev. Ed Wills said a same-sex couple is planning a blessing ceremony that is tentatively set for September. "God is about community, about belonging, about a relationship," Wills said. Couples […]
On Friday, there was a pro-Hezbollah terrorism rally in Boston. That's Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Check out some of the pictures and video over at Solomonia. Seeing how this guy was treated by the terrorism-supporters at this rally, no one should be surprised if these people start strapping bombs to themselves and blowing up Americans here.
Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert has proven yet again that you too can be a "C" student and rise to a position of power in American politics. This time Hastert has decided that one judicial beatdown is not enough and that he's considering going back to the woodshed to be spanked again to defend […]
This week the GOP's most sensitive senator, George Voinovich of Ohio, finally got over his emotional outburst at the thought of John Bolton being the U.S. representative to the U.N. Voinovich said that his observations are that "while Bolton is not perfect, he has demonstrated his ability, especially in recent months, to work with others […]
Here's another one of those stories you don't hear too often about armed citizens saving lives. The attacker, chasing one victim into the store's parking lot, was subdued by Chris Cope, manager of a financial services office in the same small shopping center, Higgins said. Cope said he grabbed a 9mm semiautomatic pistol from his […]
Now that the New York Times has locked its nutty columnists in the sub-basement known as TimesSelect, the likes of Maureen Dowd, Frank Rich and Paul Krugman have become far less influential in our public debate. This is a good thing, since Krugman continues to just make stuff up. Today's column is a case in […]