As I was waiting by the side of the freeway Friday afternoon waiting for AAA to show up to change the flat on my car, I was listening to talk radio show host Hugh Hewitt interview an environmental busybody who was one of the people behind a lawsuit that is creating a faux “drought” in […]
Pulitzer Prize-winning Web site Politifact.com has come under fire here at Hoystory for several months because of its tendency to consult left-wing sources and then use them to discredit conservatives and prop up President Obama. Now, I’m not usually a defender of Ann Coulter, but Politifact.com decides to give a statement that she made regarding […]
The testimony is complete and Judge Sonia Sotomayor will certainly become the next Supreme Court justice – not that she has earned it. Having watched much of the testimony and read lots of transcripts, I’ve come to the conclusion that Sotomayor is either a Roberts/Alito/Scalia/Thomas clone or a baldfaced liar. I don’t think President Obama […]
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy used to be a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee until he got kicked out for failing to be able to keep a secret. If there was any justice in the world, he’d get kicked off the Senate Judiciary Committee for failing to tell the truth. As Byron York […]
That's probably an oxymoron, but I have been watching some of the confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor. I must say that I've found her walk-back from the "wise Latina" comments amusing -- and a little bit disconcerting. She's encouraging senators to ignore all of her controversial comments in speeches and troubling decisions […]
I spent quite some time last night reading the Supreme Court's decision in Ricci v. DeStefano. [PDF format] As a white male, I'm confident that the decision reached by the court majority is the right one. On a more serious note, after reading the facts of the case as recited in the opinion, it's obvious […]
National Journal's Stuart Taylor takes a harder look at Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor's decision in the Ricci case to adopt the district court's "reasoning" wholesale and finds it troubling. The panel's decision to adopt as its own U.S. District Judge Janet Arterton's opinion in the case looks much less defensible up close than it […]
I've been doing my homework on President Barack Obama's Supreme Court nominee, Judge Sonia Sotomayor. Specifically, I've been looking at the Ricci case. The Wall Street Journal has posted the audio of the oral arguments in the case before the 2nd Circuit panel on which Sotomayor sat. I also went and read the transcript [PDF […]
Yesterday, President Barack Obama announced the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to replace Justice David Souter on the Supreme Court. Sotomayor is a woman (so now Ginsberg will have someone to go to the bathroom with), a Hispanic, and a lefty -- and those appear to be the three most important things in her selection. Barring […]
I've been bashing Politifact.com lately because I think it deserves it. I've been critical of South Carolina GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham in the past, but he's right on this one: The Geneva Convention did not apply, until 2005, to the war on terror. Now, he's off by a year -- it should be 2006. However, […]