Here’s how you can identify the deranged partisans of the Left: the day after a Supreme Court nomination is made, they’re still whining about Karl Rove and acting like nothing else has happened in the world. Today I tuned in to Air Anti-America and heard the Democratic Party’s nominee for Norm Coleman’s Senate seat, Al … Continue reading “Litmus test”
Here’s how you can identify the deranged partisans of the Left: the day after a Supreme Court nomination is made, they’re still whining about Karl Rove and acting like nothing else has happened in the world. Today I tuned in to Air Anti-America and heard the Democratic Party’s nominee for Norm Coleman’s Senate seat, Al Franken, talking to Lyin’ Joe Wilson and David (Troopergate) Brock about Valerie Plame.
Some people are perfectly oblivious to reality.
My cat Fluffy likes Ann Coulter. He’s a big bird-eater, and she looks like a sparrow to him, so whenever she comes on the TV he gets real hungry, chows down, and goes to sleep. Fluffy’s very pleased with Ann’s attack on this Judge Roberts dude, who apparently doesn’t collect Hitler memorabilia or make his … Continue reading “A great American does her job”
My cat Fluffy likes Ann Coulter. He’s a big bird-eater, and she looks like a sparrow to him, so whenever she comes on the TV he gets real hungry, chows down, and goes to sleep. Fluffy’s very pleased with Ann’s attack on this Judge Roberts dude, who apparently doesn’t collect Hitler memorabilia or make his kids address him as Mein Fuehrer:
Apparently, Roberts decided early on that he wanted to be on the Supreme Court and that the way to do that was not to express a personal opinion on anything to anybody ever. It’s as if he is from some space alien sleeper cell. Maybe the space aliens are trying to help us, but I wish we knew that.
If the Senate were in Democrat hands, Roberts would be perfect. But why on earth would Bush waste a nomination on a person who is a complete blank slate when we have a majority in the Senate!
We also have a majority in the House, state legislatures, state governorships, and have won five of the last seven presidential elections — seven of the last ten!
We’re the Harlem Globetrotters now – why do we have to play the Washington Generals every week?
She’s wrong in her comparison to Souter, of course; these comments make him look much more like the highly-ambitious Anthony Kennedy, but her opposition can only help him with the Senate, much like that of Moveon.org.
Fluffy is glad that everyone knows their job and is endeavoring to do it well.
HT Roger Simon
See this on America’s greatest enemy: In 1998, an official People’s Liberation Army publishing house brought out a treatise called “Unrestricted Warfare,” written by two senior army colonels, Qiao Liang and Wang Xiangsui. This book, which is available in English translation, is well known to the U.S. national security establishment but remains practically unheard of … Continue reading “China’s stealth war on the U.S.”
See this on America’s greatest enemy:
In 1998, an official People’s Liberation Army publishing house brought out a treatise called “Unrestricted Warfare,” written by two senior army colonels, Qiao Liang and Wang Xiangsui. This book, which is available in English translation, is well known to the U.S. national security establishment but remains practically unheard of among the general public.
“Unrestricted Warfare” recognizes that it is practically impossible to challenge the U.S. on its own terms. No one else can afford to build mega-expensive weapons systems like the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, which will cost more than $200 billion to develop. “The way to extricate oneself from this predicament,” the authors write, “is to develop a different approach.”
Their different approaches include financial warfare (subverting banking systems and stock markets), drug warfare (attacking the fabric of society by flooding it with illicit drugs), psychological and media warfare (manipulating perceptions to break down enemy will), international law warfare (blocking enemy actions using multinational organizations), resource warfare (seizing control of vital natural resources), even ecological warfare (creating man-made earthquakes or other natural disasters).
Cols. Qiao and Wang write approvingly of Al Qaeda, Colombian drug lords and computer hackers who operate outside the “bandwidths understood by the American military.” They envision a scenario in which a “network attack against the enemy” � clearly a red, white and blue enemy � would be carried out “so that the civilian electricity network, traffic dispatching network, financial transaction network, telephone communications network and mass media network are completely paralyzed,” leading to “social panic, street riots and a political crisis.” Only then would conventional military force be deployed “until the enemy is forced to sign a dishonorable peace treaty.”
It’s about time we started taking the China threat seriously. China is a fascist state that’s out to dominate the world, and we can’t let that happen.
HT Instapundit.
The nation’s left knee didn’t take long to start jerking. Here’s what the professional hysterics at Moveon. org want you to do: In nominating John Roberts, the president has chosen a right wing corporate lawyer and ideologue for the nation’s highest court instead of a judge who would protect the rights of the American people. … Continue reading “MoveOn.org: The boy who cried wolf”
The nation’s left knee didn’t take long to start jerking. Here’s what the professional hysterics at Moveon. org want you to do:
In nominating John Roberts, the president has chosen a right wing corporate lawyer and ideologue for the nation’s highest court instead of a judge who would protect the rights of the American people. Working for mining companies, Roberts opposed clean air rules and worked to help coal companies strip-mine mountaintops. He worked with Ken Starr (yes, that Ken Starr), and tried to keep Congress from defending the Voting Rights Act. He wrote that Roe v. Wade should be “overruled,” and as a lawyer argued (and won) the case that stopped some doctors from even discussing abortion. That’s why we believe: “The Senate must not confirm right-wing corporate lawyer John Roberts to the Supreme Court.”
Clue: You can’t judge a man’s judicial philosophy by the arguments he made for his clients as an advocate. In the case of the Roe v. Wade comments, that client was the US government, representative of all of us, including the Berkeley hippies that run Moveon.
If Bush was to nominate somebody really bad, the arguments would be the same and nobody would pay any attention. Perhaps that’s why Bush put up Roberts, to flush these peckerwoods out.
John Dvorak speaks truth to power: Will someone explain to me the benefits of a trendy system developed by Professor Lawrence Lessig of Stanford? Dubbed Creative Commons, this system is some sort of secondary copyright license that, as far as I can tell, does absolutely nothing but threaten the already tenuous “fair use” provisos of … Continue reading “Lessig’s new suit”
John Dvorak speaks truth to power:
Will someone explain to me the benefits of a trendy system developed by Professor Lawrence Lessig of Stanford? Dubbed Creative Commons, this system is some sort of secondary copyright license that, as far as I can tell, does absolutely nothing but threaten the already tenuous “fair use” provisos of existing copyright law. This is one of the dumbest initiatives ever put forth by the tech community. I mean seriously dumb. Eye-rolling dumb on the same scale as believing the Emperor is wearing fabulous new clothes.
His assessment of CC is actually quite charitable.
Maybe this gets done without a filibuster, since Holy Joe of Gang of 14 fame is down: Another member of the “Gang of 14”, Sen. Joseph Lieberman (search), D-Conn., told the Hartford Courant last Thursday that Roberts would be one of three picks he thought would not spark a talk-a-thon, or a filibuster. The less … Continue reading “Some Dems Praise Pick”
Maybe this gets done without a filibuster, since Holy Joe of Gang of 14 fame is down:
Another member of the “Gang of 14”, Sen. Joseph Lieberman (search), D-Conn., told the Hartford Courant last Thursday that Roberts would be one of three picks he thought would not spark a talk-a-thon, or a filibuster.
The less time I have to see Ralph Neas’ hair plugs on TV the better.
The fur is fixing to fly: “[Judge Roberts] is a Washington lawyer, a conservative, not an ideologue,” said Stuart H. Newberger, a lawyer and self-described liberal Democrat who has argued cases against Roberts. He put in his time advising the Bush legal team in Florida during the battle over the 2000 presidential election and has … Continue reading “Roe was wrongly decided”
The fur is fixing to fly:
“[Judge Roberts] is a Washington lawyer, a conservative, not an ideologue,” said Stuart H. Newberger, a lawyer and self-described liberal Democrat who has argued cases against Roberts.
He put in his time advising the Bush legal team in Florida during the battle over the 2000 presidential election and has often argued conservative positions before the court — but they can be attributed to clients, not necessarily to him.
That includes a brief he wrote for President George H.W. Bush’s administration in a 1991 abortion case, in which he observed that “we continue to believe that Roe v. Wade was wrongly decided and should be overruled.”
Roberts won the case — Rust v. Sullivan — in which the Supreme Court agreed with the administration that the government could require doctors and clinics receiving federal funds to avoid talking to patients about abortion.
This is gonna be fun.
Judge John G. Roberts seems like a solid selection. Presumably Joy would take this place on the Appeals Court. We’ll see in 18 minutes or so. Apparently Bush has figured out that whoever he nominates, the peaceniks will filibuster and demonize, so he may as well go hard to the right.
Judge John G. Roberts seems like a solid selection. Presumably Joy would take this place on the Appeals Court. We’ll see in 18 minutes or so.
Apparently Bush has figured out that whoever he nominates, the peaceniks will filibuster and demonize, so he may as well go hard to the right.
The Supreme Court Nomination Blog is a good place to find information on Judge Clement. She appears to be very good on the Commerce Clause. More at Volokh, of course.
The Supreme Court Nomination Blog is a good place to find information on Judge Clement. She appears to be very good on the Commerce Clause.
More at Volokh, of course.
Here’s some news that’s made the teachers’ unions very, very sad: WASHINGTON — The nation’s 9-year-olds last year posted their best scores in the building-block subjects of reading and math in more than three decades. Older students didn’t fare as well. At the same time, achievement gaps between racial groups narrowed, according to results of … Continue reading “No Child Left Behind is working”
Here’s some news that’s made the teachers’ unions very, very sad:
WASHINGTON — The nation’s 9-year-olds last year posted their best scores in the building-block subjects of reading and math in more than three decades. Older students didn’t fare as well.
At the same time, achievement gaps between racial groups narrowed, according to results of the 2004 National Assessment of Educational Progress announced Thursday.
Education officials and advocates attributed the 9-year-olds’ performance to a recent emphasis on elementary schools and getting children reading as early as possible. They said the results also showed more attention must be paid to students in secondary schools.
“We need to go to work,” Education Secretary Margaret Spellings said in an interview.
Spellings also credited No Child Left Behind, the education law President Bush signed in January 2002 that mandates frequent testing of students to chart their progress in reading and math.
So accountability works. How about that?
