August 7, 2003
Defending the Democrats

Josh Marshall, sometimes referred to as Paul Krugman's political brain, has an article in The Hill magazine defending Democrats on the Senate judiciary committee against the charges of an anti-Catholic crusade. Marshall counterattacks on two points: First, is opposing a judicial nominee for having doctrinaire views on abortion the same as demanding that he or […]

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August 5, 2003
Ponnuru weighs in

National Review's Ramesh Ponnuru takes issue with colleague Byron York's (and by extension my own) view that it is inaccurate to tar Senate judiciary committee Democrats as "anti-Catholic." However, Ponnuru acknowledges the vaildity of many of the points made by York and myself: So Republican rhetoric about the Democrats' having adopted a "religious test for […]

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August 1, 2003
I usually disagree with him

But James Goldsborough's column in Thursday's Union-Tribune is right-on.

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July 31, 2003
More on Pryor

National Review's Byron York has more on the William Pryor nomination that I discussed earlier. York comes to many of the same conclusions I did, namely that Democratic senators are not anti-Catholic per se, but their use of the abortion litmus test has a de facto effect of barring orthodox Catholics, evangelical Christians, orthodox Jews […]

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July 25, 2003
Religious beliefs and the judiciary

There's been a lot of hubbub on Capitol Hill in recent weeks over the nomination of Alabama Attorney General William Pryor to the federal Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit. Pryor, a devout Catholic, has outraged the Senate Judiciary Committee's minority democrats with his professed belief that Roe v. Wade was a horrible court […]

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July 23, 2003
A little late

But I predicted this. State Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O'Connell said Thursday he plans to ask the California Supreme Court to ease the state's budget gridlock and free up money for schools by ruling that a simple majority of lawmakers can pass a spending plan. The petition, expected to be filed early next week […]

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July 23, 2003
California Recall Petition gets go-ahead

California Secretary of State Kevin Shelley, this evening, announced that counties had verified about 1.3 million signatures, far more than the approximately 900,000 needed to qualify for a special election to recall Gov. Gray Davis.. I think this is a mistake -- but it's a mistake that Gray Davis and the Republicans, by putting up […]

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July 22, 2003
Politicians putting political gain above actually solving problems?

No, I'm sure that never occurs anywhere in America. Except California. Except for today. SACRAMENTO – Unaware that a live microphone was broadcasting their words around the Capitol, Assembly Democrats meeting behind closed doors debated prolonging California's budget crisis for political gain. Members of the coalition of liberal Democrats talked about slowing progress on the […]

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July 16, 2003
Thanks for the memories

Max Boot has an excellent column in today's Los Angeles Times pointing out that the "infamous 16" is all about politics. It has nothing to do with concerns about the quality of our intelligence, the president's honesty or...Watergate. The decision to go to war was not based on 16 words in the State of the […]

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July 15, 2003
Lies, lies, lies

Byron Scott takes on 20 of them.

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