On Monday, Democrat Rep. Bob Filner made an Alford plea -- basically he admitted the government could prove him guilty. Filner was fined $100 and has to write a letter of apology. In her complaint, [airline worker Joanne Kay] Kunkel said of Filner: “He wanted people in the back office to help him. I told […]
Jan Crawford Greenburg, the author of Supreme Conflict, has an excellent summary of how the justices just might come down on the D.C. gun ban that it coming before the Supreme Court this term. Greenburg makes an interesting case that the decision may not be 5-4 in the classic conservative/liberal split. Here's hoping.
President Bush, like any politician, has made some good moves and some bad ones. This week's farce of a peace conference in Annapolis, Md., is one of the bad ones. Israeli and Palestinian leaders pledged yesterday in Annapolis to begin negotiations next month for a possible peace agreement, but their speeches before representatives of 40 […]
And the man doesn't have a prayer of becoming president. Instapundit summarizes: "Don't hate me because I'm smarter than you." Only a politician -- or professional athlete -- can manage this degree of arrogance. Sorry, but the man behind the assault on free speech that is McCain-Feingold isn't going to get a lot of conservative […]
Over at the Huffington Post they have a brief on Vice President Dick Cheney's irregular heartbeat. Unlike just about every other story, this one never had open comments. Does anyone wonder why?
This is a much deeper theological question than the New York Times appears capable of handling: A headline last Sunday about a Muslim man and an Orthodox Jewish woman who are partners in two Dunkin’ Donuts stores described their religions incorrectly. The two faiths worship the same God — not different ones. I think if […]
Zogby International came out with a poll today showing that Sen. Hillary Clinton would lose to Republicans Sen. John McCain, Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney. I trust Zogby polls about the same as I trust the government to be a good steward of my tax dollars, but this certainly can't help Clinton. I still think […]
I'm sorry. I was laughing too hard over this bit of stonewalling by Maryland Democratic Senators Barbara Mikulski and Benjamin Cardin. FROM 1997 to 2001, Rod J. Rosenstein worked as an assistant U.S. attorney in Greenbelt. For the past two years, he has been the top federal prosecutor in Maryland and has earned plaudits for […]
Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus -- no conservative she -- took on hack economist Paul Krugman last week over his repeated claims that the demographic train wreck facing Social Security does not exist. Marcus juxtaposed Krugman's concerns of years past with his dismissive and demogogic language of the present that anyone (Barack Obama particularly) saying […]
The latest travel news out of Bali, Indonesia, is that people flying there on their private jets for the U.N. Conference on Climate Change will have to park their planes somewhere else -- they don't have enough room on the tarmac for all of them. The operational manager for Bali's Airport, Azjar Effendi, says his […]