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Andrew McCarthy of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies has an excellent article in The New Criterion ripping the Supreme Court for taking over the other two branches of government. This is why, for example, we have never—at least until Hamdan—had a one-sided treaty with an international terrorist organization, whereby jihadists get to keep killing […]

The headline was made famous by Adam Savage of the Discovery Channel's "Mythbusters" show after he was informed that one of his predictions for the outcome of an experiment was woefully inaccurate. The editors of the New York Times seem to have taken Savage's attitude to heart when it comes to the former ambassador Joseph […]

I finally went out to see the latest "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" flick this afternoon -- I'm on vacation for the next couple weeks, so posting will be whatever it turns out to be -- and I must say that I'm rather underwhelmed. The special effects were excellent; lots of action; lots […]

One of the names often mentioned as pundits speculated who President Bush would name to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor was J. Harvie Wilkinson of the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals. Wilkinson authored an op-ed piece in yesterday's Washington Post cautioning against efforts to amend state and the federal constitution to prohibit […]

Mary Mapes, the BDS-suffering political hack who destroyed CBS's credibility and Dan Rather's career in an effort to swing the 2004 presidential election, has got a new job -- with Rather at Dallas Mavericks owner's Mark Cuban's HDNet cable channel. *UPDATE* In what I'm going to call a "fake, but accurate" moment, Mapes is denying […]

I'm probably the last person out in the blogosphere to read Robert Ferrigno's "Prayers for the Assassin." Where Syne Mitchell's "The Last Mortal Man" (see below) describes an intriguing future that can make you a little uncomfortable, Ferrigno's "Prayers for the Assassin" is a future that is a heckuva lot scarier. Ferrigno's adventure takes place […]

I've been burning through a few books in the past week, but haven't really had the opportunity to write my mini book reports. I finished Syne Mitchell's "The Last Mortal Man" yesterday afternoon, and the only thing I'm kicking myself over is the fact that I didn't notice until I was already invested in the […]

Before being adopted by some on the loony left to refer half-heartedly to Bush-won red states, the phrase was used to refer to the fight against communism -- aka the red menace. There were people in the West who would rather die than accept a tyrannical nihilist rule. In today's Chicago Sun-Times, columnist Mark Steyn […]

I just got finished watching the Santorum/Casey debate on this morning's "Meet the Press" on NBC. Yes, I'm biased, but I think Santorum won this one in a rout. The part of the debate that really got my blood boiling was Casey's willful obfuscation on Social Security reform. Casey repeated the Paul Krugman/John Kerry lines […]