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When the Supreme court overturned a Texas law against sodomy  (Lawrence v Texas in 2003), Justice Kennedy cited the European Court of Human Rights .  Jeffry Toobin has written in The New Yorker about Kennedy's lawyers without borders approach. Now that undocumented workers are showing their political muscle in the U.S. the good Justice may not have to cross the border to find foreign law.

I just hope he's not boning up on Afghan Sharia law for the court's next capital punishment case.

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Actually Babe Ruth doesn't have anything to do with it.  Hank Aaron is the home run champ. Ruth is Frankenstein's straw man.  Jason Kelly of the South Bend Tribune has a good column the real racial threats Aaron faced.

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The National Geographic Society kicked off Holy Week by releasing an ancient gnostic manuscript that says Jesus and Judas were best buds. 

The manuscript dates nearly 2000 years before the birth of Katie Couric.  Scholars agree that she had nothing to do with it. That was just a cheap shot on my part.  But she  is emblematic of the redemptive powers of the media.

This one will be a tough sell.  The San Francisco Chronicle says, "It's going to take more than the translation of an old Coptic papyrus to
rehabilitate the image of Judas Iscariot. The archetypal villain known for betraying Jesus for 30 pieces of silver
holds a special place in the ninth circle of hell in Dante's "Inferno." He is
the one apostle who has salt spilled on the table in front of him, signifying
bad luck, in Leonardo da Vinci's "The Last Supper." He has inspired lyrics for
everyone from Bob Dylan to Iron Maiden."

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After playing out her hand of race, gender, sexual harrassment, and Harry Belafonte cards, Cynthia Mckinney sort of apologized for allegedly assaulting a cop. "There should not have been any physical contact in this incident," she said "I am sorry that
this misunderstanding happened at all, and I regret its escalation and I
apologize".

If you're near Hudson, Ohio tomorrow please drop by the Learned Owl bookstore.  I'll be signing my book, A Recent History of the United States in Political Cartoons: A Look Bok! at 6:00pm.

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I got this idea when I heard Bernard Kalb ranting about Katie Couric. He thinks CBS is messing with its Edward R. Murrow tradition.  Personally, I think she can read the news as well as anyone, as long as it's not forged.

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Tom Delay is stepping down one step ahead of the law.  The Financial Times of London quoted him saying, “It’s very nasty. Every leftist organisation in America is down here in
Houston. I just realised that my constituents don’t deserve this. They
deserve a Republican."  That's a funny way for a termite killer from Texas to talk. 

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Okay, this is the last immigration cartoon for a while.  It's about protecting the border from enemies rather than economics. Michele Malkin has a good column about why we should be "worried, very worried" about certain illegal immigrants.

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Time magazine had a cover story about global warming last week.  It  said, "Be worried.  Be very worried". The coverage hyped the threat of man made global warming without skepticism.  That's because, as they say, "the science is settled".

Nicholas von Hoffman used to have a tag line with his columns that
said, "When you walk into a room and everyone is in agreement,
they're usually wrong".

When I see journalists and scientists in the same story and no skepticism I become worried.  Very worried.

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Republicans are split on immigration.  Senate Republicans want a guest worker program.  House Republicans want to round up illegal aliens, like 12 million Elian Gonzalez's, and send them home. Then they want to build a wall to keep them from coming back.  The Democrat strategy is for Republican suicide.