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Over at Q and O, Dale Franks has an excellent piece which tackles an issue which I addressed last week on America's rulers -- the imperial judiciary. We have given great deference to judges in the past giving them wide latitude to rule on practically every issue under the sun. With that power and deference, […]

The Drudge Report linked to this shocking story at MSNBC by Michael Fletcher of the Washington Post. President Bush is requiring Cabinet members to spend several hours a week at the White House compound, a move top aides say eases coordination with government agencies but one seen by some analysts as fresh evidence of the […]

Famed attorney Johnnie Cochran died yesterday due to a brain tumor. Cochran's most well-known accomplishment was playing the race card to help former pro football star O.J. Simpson to get away with murder. My sympathies go out to his family. There's one big disappointing thing about Cochran's untimely death -- the Supreme Court may not […]

And I feel fine. You'd think that after hundreds of years of predicting a doom which has never come, that these latter-day Malthusian adherents would be a little more reticent with their pronouncements of doom.

Today's Wall Street Journal has an editorial that would cause Democrats to squeal like stuck pigs. For those of you who don't have a Journal subscription, the thrust of the piece is that Sen. Robert Byrd of West Virginia -- the crazy old uncle in the Senate -- pointed out that there is nothing in […]

The Wall Street Journal has perhaps the nation's most conservative editorial page. Note that I use the term "conservative" and not "Republican." The Journal's editorial page is a principaled one, not a partisan one -- it often opposes actions by Republicans that betray conservative values, e.g. steel tariffs, overspending. The New York Times editiorial page, […]

New York Times columnist Paul Krugman is back from his week off. Did he use this time to formulate his much-anticipated plan to save Social Security? Well, the changed numbers in the banner atop this page should answer that question. No, instead Krugman returns with vitriol and decides to compare his caricature of the "religious […]

John Fund has a piece in today's Wall Street Journal on the left's selective outrage at the idea of the federal branch of government involving itself in state family court matters. As I mentioned last week, the Clinton administration did something cloaked in the flimsiest color of law -- and the republic survived. Respect for […]

Harper's magazine has decided to contribute hundreds of thousands of dollars to several young Marines. Not really, but that's the likely fallout from the March cover. The St. Petersburg Times reports: Marine recruits so new that their hair hasn't been cut don't sound like the best models for a story about soldiers going AWOL - […]

Overshadowed by the Eason Jordan slander of the American military at the Davos conference was statements made by former President Bill Clinton on Iran's "democracy." “Iran is the only country in the world that has now had six elections since the first election of President Khatami (in 1997). (It is) the only one with elections, […]