Guess which Senate party leader those words more aptly describes -- Republican Bill Frist, or Democrat Harry Reid? If you guessed Reid, you're right! The signatures of 14 Senate centrists, seven from each party, spilled across the last page of a hard-won compromise on President Bush's judicial nominees. But whatever elation the negotiators felt, the […]
Yesterday in the Senate, the GOP and some conservative Democrats fell just a few votes short of 60 in an effort to invoke cloture on the nomination of John Bolton to be the U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Several Democrats, including Harry Reid, John Kerry, Joe Biden and Chris Dodd were quick to claim that […]
Unlike The New York Times' decision to charge $50 a year for access to their editorial page and columnists, The Wall Street Journal's Internet subscription is woth every dime for pieces like this one. Before Sept. 11, 2001, when federal law-enforcement officials asked FedEx Corp. for help, the company had its limits. It wouldn't provide […]
You haven't heard much hand-wringing (sorry for the mixed metaphor) from the American press lately over the possiblity that the Iraqis would follow their Shiite brethren in Iran in choosing some sort of Islamic theocracy. Why? Because popularly elected governments (even in America you paranoid liberals) don't go for theocracy. Ministry of Interior in Iraq […]
One of the less persuasive, but most accurate Democrat complaints on the issue of judges has been that Repubicans have the House, Senate and presidency -- now they want the "independent judiciary too." On its face, this argument seems to somehow suggest that anytime the president and Senate do their constitutional duties in staffing the […]
CNN's story on the possibility of a Senate compromise on judges contains this little gem. Republicans have said no judicial nominee has been filibustered in the Senate's history, although they filibustered the nomination of Abe Fortas to be chief justice in 1968. Actually, Republicans and Democrats briefly filibustered the Fortas nomination -- though no one […]
Well, last night I finally finished up Daniel J. Flynn's book, "Intellectual Morons." For the most part it's an interesting -- and infuriating -- read. Flynn takes aim at everyone from eugenist Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood to Alfred Kinsey a wacko pervert, much adored by the sexually evolved left, to Ayn Rand, the […]
Unbowed, or more likely ignorant, of their previous fisking, The New York Times editorial writers continue to demostrate that I am overqualified for an editorial writing job at the nation's "paper of record." The judicial nominations debate reached a new low this week when a Republican senator compared his Democratic colleagues to Hitler. Granted, Sen. […]
An anonymous commenter in the post below had the following to say: With regard to judges and the filibuster--please note--what goes round comes round. Republicans better hope that they stay in the majority! Well, I certainly hope the GOP stays in the majority. However, I also believe that if the Republicans caved -- preserving the […]
I've had my digital video recorder saving the Senate debate on judicial nominees for posterity's sake, and I continue to be flabbergasted by one of the Democrats' weak claims to legitimacy. It's something that has been has been seen elsewhere -- like this op-ed piece in Wednesday's Union-Tribune -- but has now made it to […]