Cathy Young points out how low the left has gone in its assault on John Roberts. Slate’s affirmative action legal columnist, Dahlia Lithwick, has taken to combing over essays Roberts wrote while a junior in high school:
Score one for Bruce Reed. He picked up on what I completely missed this week: that the most telling [...]
Some people think Cindy Sheehan is America’s Mom, and some think she’s daffy as a duck. She lays it all out here:
Well, George and I are leaving Crawford today. George is finished playing golf and telling his fables in San Diego, so he will be heading to Louisiana to see the devastation that his environmental [...]
What would happen if somebody made a really, really bad movie and instead of showing it in theaters before selling it on DVD, they just skipped the movie house phase completely and sold it direct to consumers with a blog as a marketing tool? I suppose some people would buy it just to support [...]
Speaking of federalism, I was reminded again yesterday that this term isn’t well understood, especially by foreigners. So here’s a little federalism tutorial for the masses:
In what has become known as The Federalist Papers, James Madison (1751-1836), Alexander Hamilton (1755-1804) and John Jay (1745-1829) argued vigorously for the suggested model of interlocking federal arrangements (Federalist [...]
It seems to me that the story of Iraq’s constitution pretty well trumps everything else that’s going on the world these days as a new story, with all respect to the heroic Cindy Sheehan and to snake-oil peddler Deepak Chopra. Unfortunately, there’s not as much intelligent commentary as I’d like to see.
The Left’s Iraq whiz, [...]
So now Google is the evil empire that Silicon Valley loves to hate:
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 23 – For years, Silicon Valley hungered for a company mighty enough to best Microsoft. Now it has one such contender: the phenomenally successful Google.
But instead of embracing Google as one of their own, many in Silicon Valley are skittish [...]
Lest we forget, Castro’s good buddy Hugo Chavez has essentially dared the US to invade his sorry country:
The U.S. government has strongly denied Chavez’s claims that it is considering military action against Cuba’s closest ally in the Americas.
But Chavez said late Monday that the U.S. government, which “won’t stop caressing the idea of invading Cuba [...]
The New York Times is apparently doing a three-part series on evolution and intelligent design. The second part, by Kenneth Chang, is a pretty decent treatment of the issues the ID’ers raise and the standard rebuttals, but it doesn’t meet the exacting standards of the always-shrill Dr. P. Z. Myers. Myers doesn’t appear to realize [...]
I thought I’d read some idiocy about evolution, but this piece of moronic Deepak Chopra drivel takes the cake and bakes a new one. It’s breath-takingly stupid. Among other things, Chopra is concerned that the fossil record didn’t preserve maladaptive mutations or the transition from interesting chemicals to self-replicating life. Jesus.
Meanwhile back in reality, the [...]
California’s Supreme Court has ruled that lesbian partners who cooperate to bear children are obligated to pay child support and share custody when they break up just like regular parents:
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – Same-sex couples who raise children are lawful parents, and just like heterosexual couples, they must provide for their children if they break [...]
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