We've known this for more than two decades -- and it's been an issue ever since the court started thinking it was its duty to find penumbras in the constitution -- the American Bar Association is biased against conservative judicial nominees. The findings: • Nominees appointed by Democratic presidents are more likely to receive higher […]
Unbelievable. Attorney General Eric Holder said some detainees being held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, may end up being released in the U.S. as the Obama administration works with foreign allies to resettle some of the prisoners. Holder, in a briefing with reporters, said administration officials are still reviewing individual cases of the approximately 250 detainees […]
Yesterday, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer put out its last print edition. The paper will live on as a Web-only publication, much down-sized and a shadow of its former self. Today, the Union-Tribune, my employer, announced that it had been sold to Platinum Equity and would be managed by the Black Press out of Canada. According to […]
In his ever-expanding effort to find ways to fund his liberal programs, President Barack Obama is considering an incredibly stupid and morally bankrupt proposal. Veterans groups are angry after President Obama told them Monday that he is still considering a proposal to have treatment for service-connected injuries charged to veterans private insurance plans. President Obama, […]
Yesterday, White House spokesman Robert "I'm just like that Iraqi spokesman who lied during the Iraq War" Gibbs held forth on why John McCain was wrong to say the fundamentals of our economy are "strong," but the head of President Obama's council of economic advisers is right to say the fundamentals of our economy are […]
Victor Davis Hanson's latest column asks a simple question: Would Obama won the November election if he'd told the American people he'd be doing what he's doing now? Imagine that last fall before being elected, Barack Obama had outlined the positions he has embraced since being inaugurated as president. An honest campaign speech could have […]
There's a couple of stories out of Great Britain that are demonstrating that the country's Muslim population is not that keen on the whole freedom of religion thing. The first is a book written by a daughter of a respected, but unnamed, imam in northern England -- and what "Religion of Peace" meant to her […]
I encourage you to read this story by The Washington Post's Gene Weingarten.
Over the past couple of days, President Barack Obama and his administration have come to embrace some positions GOP presidential nominee Sen. John McCain made just a few months ago. These positions, predictably, are ones candidate Obama and his team distorted and assailed McCain for taking. First was McCain's oft-derided statement that the fundamentals of […]
Coming from the guy that doesn't think that oral sex is ... well, sex ... this sort of thing should come as no surprise: Transcript, courtesy HotAir.com [emphasis added by Ed Morrissey]: [Dr. Sanjay] Gupta: Let’s talk about something you talked a lot about in the early part of your presidency, stem cells. There […]