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The Supreme Court's senior justice told a meeting of the Seventh Circuit Bar Association that it's right for the Supreme Court to consider foreign courts views when interpreting the United States Constitution. Justice John Paul Stevens -- and the other justices who have shown themselves to susceptible to peer pressure -- shouldn't be sitting on […]

Let me start out by saying that I'm a male chauvinist pig. I'm opposed to women serving as infantrymen or front-line Marines or even fighter pilots. By and large, women are less physically capable of the demands of a combat environment. There are exceptions, of course, but until the military insists on uniform physical standards, […]

This should be the plan for the next few days in the Senate: Get Priscilla Owen, William Pryor and Janice Rogers Brown confirmed. Get John Bolton confirmed to the post of U.N. Ambassador. Then start bringing up the other judges to test the Senate's 14 moderates. Will they be filibustered too? Will they be voted […]

A few Republican moderates have just sold-out to the Democrats. Republicans don't know how to lead. They don't know how to govern. Not one more dime -- ever. *UPDATE* Text of the memorandum of selling-out can be found here. To sum-up: Republicans get nothing except votes on a couple of nominees they would've gotten votes […]

Saw it late last night in a rather sparsely attended showing 11:25 showing. The special effects, space battles and light-saber fights were wery impressive. The acting was rather wooden -- it's saying something when the best acting job in the entire movie is done by a CGI character -- Yoda. I just don't understand how […]

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 […]

A couple of notes on The New York Times' most inaccurate, unhinged columnist. First, his beardedness gave an interview to the Asia Times with the following gem: Tax increases: "We should be getting 28% of GDP [gross domestic product] in revenue. We are only collecting 17%." As Donald Luskin helpfully illustrates, federal tax receipts weren't […]

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