It appears that the dissent Alito wrote in Casey is going to play very heavily in the discussion on his confirmation. So here’s a link to it and a bit of the essence:
My disagreement with the majority regarding a single provision of the Pennsylvania Abortion Control Act, 18 Pa.Cons.Stat.Ann. § 3201 et seq. (1983 & [...]
The Supreme Court has declined to get involved in the Eolas case:
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court Monday refused to hear an appeal from Microsoft Corp. challenging the methodology under which damages were calculated in a patent lawsuit filed by Eolas Technologies Inc. and the University of California over features in the software giant’s Web [...]
Here’s one of those “end of an era” things:
America Online co-founder Steve Case resigned from the board of Time Warner Inc., five years after the media giant’s painful merger with the Internet service he helped create.
The AOL takeover of Time/Warner was emblematic of the irrational exuberance of the dot com bubble (some would say “swindle”), [...]
James Taranto uses this bit from Macbeth to describe Chuck Schumer’s reaction to Alito:
Is this a dagger which I see before me,
The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee:–
I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.
Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible
To feeling as to sight? or art thou but
A dagger of [...]
I’m sure the endorsement of the Gun Owners of America will help Judge Alito:
Judge Samuel Alito, Jr., in the Third Circuit, has argued that Congress has no right to regulate the private possession of machine guns.
Cool.
HT Billy the Quick
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After reading this tale of woe I’m inclined to play matchmaker and help Dowd get a date. Here’s a list of some men she should ask out:
1. Howard Stern
2. Gore Vidal
3. Andew Sullivan
4. Al Franken
5. Michael Huffington
None has a fear of powerful women, so she should be able to make some time with them.
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The dude is a federalist:
In the early 1990s, Alito was the lone dissenter in
Planned Parenthood v. Casey, a case in which the 3rd Circuit struck down a Pennsylvania law that included a provision requiring women seeking abortions to notify their spouses.
…and only 55 years old.
The hysterical reaction is going to be fun to watch. [...]
One of the crazy factoids that’s buzzing around the left side of the blogosphere says that Fitzgerald’s investigation into the Joe Wilson matter only cost $723,000. It’s been on Daily Kos and 30 other blogs, and widely used by Air Hysteria’s hosts. It’s based on a sloppy reading of a story in the Washington Post:
In [...]
This is bad news:
Nearly 1.5 million babies, a record, were born to unmarried women in the United States last year, the government reported Friday. And it isn’t just teenagers any more.
“People have the impression that teens and unmarried mothers are synonymous,” said Stephanie Ventura of the National Center for Health Statistics.
But last year teens accounted [...]
Aha, this explains the miracle series.
H/T Baseball Crank
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