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When the Supreme Court chickened last year and refused to hear a challenge to the words "under God" in the pledge of allegiance because the plaintiff, Michael Newdow, didn't have custody of his daughter, everyone knew that they were just putting off the inevitable. Despite media claims in the wake of Chief Justice William Rehnquist's […]

The National City city council won't have to declare a car dealership blighted in order to force the landowner to sell to the dealership. A deal has been made and government taking won't be necessary. This is good news. Since I wrote about the case last week, I had been looking forward to seeing where […]

Victor Davis Hanson is going to "debate" Arianna Huffington. You can catch a Webcast here. I'll be at work and hope that they'll provide a recorded stream later -- boy is she going to get a drubbing.

Los Angeles got hit by a blackout yesterday when a woman in Reseda plugged in a hair dryer at the same time a guy in Simi Valley turned on the air conditioning ... or something like that. Union official Brian D'Arcy, however, blamed the city's policy of having employees work during the daytime. Brian D'Arcy, […]

While I was stuck in the mess that was the I-15 this afternoon attempting to get to work, I caught the first hour of Hugh Hewitt on the radio. Hugh makes an excellent point about the confirmation hearing for Judge John Roberts to be chief justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, and […]

So, it was nearly time to go home and the night metro editor comes up to me and says: "Matt, you follow politics. What's up with Arlen Specter? He looks horrible." "He's got cancer," I reply. "Oh." Check back again next week for a new episode of "Work conversations."

I didn't listen to Monday's speeches by senators at the confirmation hearings for Judge John Roberts. I'm just not into self-abuse. But I did catch a little bit of Sen. Ted Kennedy's opening statement while listening to the late night replay of the Tony Snow Show. Americans are united as rarely before in compassion and […]

Dianne Feinstein is questioning John Roberts and she is shocked, shocked I tell you, about Roberts' famous lawyer joke. Talk about playing to the stereotype of the humorless, easily offended man-hater. The really sad thing is, that she is the better of the two California senators.

Pray for the Torres family.

You know, when an abortion-protestor makes violent threats, it usually elicits denunciations by public officials and calls for moving them ever farther from the clinics' front doors. But, when an abortion supporter threatens to lynch a judge, well, that's material for the eighth paragraph of the story. "This ruling came out at quarter to five […]