Or maybe Ted "I left my car in the drink ... along with my date" Kennedy just gets his demagoguery wrong. The day after his elevation to the high court, Justice Samuel Alito sided with the court's liberal block to block the execution of a convicted murderer. For those of you wary of Souter Part […]
Today's New York Times has an article on some of the controversy surrounding the movie "End of the Spear." As I've written before, I think the film is a really good, moving film that, though religious, is not preachy. Shortly after I published my review of the film, I got an e-mail from a reader […]
A brite is a newspaper term for a short, happy feature story. This one should bring a smile to your face.
I didn't catch this piece yesterday by The Washington Post's Dan Froomkin, but I just picture this scene in my mind and laugh. At times, Alito followed the lead of the other three justices who sat with him in the front row. When Bush said "We love our freedom, and we will fight to keep […]
On Monday, the front page of The San Diego Union-Tribune carried a front-page story on ABC News co-anchor Bob Woodruff and his cameraman Doug Vogt's injuries from an IED attack in Iraq. Slow news day? Or is it really that journalists are better than you hoi polloi? If I were in charge -- and it […]
The method for sending a password so you can post comments was kaput. It is no longer. If you had registered and never received an e-mail with a password, I'm sorry, but try again. I've tested it and it is working as of this moment. Sorry for the inconvenience. Hopefully these growing pains will quickly […]
I'm just getting to watching yesterday's State of the Union speech and I must confess that one moment struck me as ... odd. It is said that prior to the attacks of September the 11th, our government failed to connect the dots of the conspiracy. We now know that two of the hijackers in the […]
I got this week's Time magazine in the mail today. One of the interesting factoids that jumped out at me is on Page 18 -- the first two numbers highlight the state of global warming. 58.3 degress: Global average surface temperature, in Fahrenheit, in 2005 -- the hottest year on record. 10,000: Years since the […]
Judge Samuel Alito is now Justice Samuel Alito. What does this mean? First it means that Justice Stephen Breyer no longer has to get drinks for the rest of the justices or get up and answer the door. Of course, what it really means is that we've got four solid votes for originalism and against […]