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Another Cross To Bear

October 8, 2009

Our Supreme Court Justices are very learned people. They come from the finest schools and study for years and years to master the law. They work their way up through the legal system, and these "best of the best" reach the pinnacle of their profession in order to decide the most difficult and pressing legal [...]

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Stuart Joins The Senate, And Other Matters

July 17, 2009

Certain things defy explanation. For example, Bill Ayers went from being a domestic terrorist bomber for the Weathermen to being a Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of Chicago-Illinois. There is no rational explanation for how that happens, for how a radical like Ayers gets in a position to shape impressionable young minds when [...]

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Getting Beyond Race

June 30, 2009

The Senate formally apologized for slavery yesterday, one hundred and forty four years too late, one hundred and forty four years after slavery was abolished.
Do we all feel better now ? A bunch of people who had nothing whatsoever to do with slavery have apologized for it. Now we know that America doesn't condone slavery [...]

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Wimps On The Right

May 29, 2009

To all Republicans in Congress who are afraid to oppose Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor because she is a Latina….
Are you kidding me ?!?! Grow a pair.
Sotomayor's ethnicity has nothing to do with her qualifications (or lack thereof) for the Supreme Court. Sure, the Democrats will play the race card (as they always do) [...]

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Taking Off The Blindfold

May 27, 2009

There's something about the notion of liberal judges versus conservative judges that has always bothered me. I was taught that justice is blind, which means justice should be neither liberal nor conservative. Justice should be neutral on political matters. Justice should apply the law. When politicians like President Obama start saying they want judges with [...]

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If You Can't Dazzle 'Em With Brilliance…

May 9, 2009

Baffle 'em with you-know-what.
If Washington D.C. has a credo, that must surely be it. The media isn't far behind.
But before I get into that, I'd like to take a moment to thank President Obama for saving us all from last week's swine flu pandemic (worldwide epidemic). Just think, if Bush was still the President, [...]

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Obama's Shocking Ignorance

May 7, 2008

We might as well elect this guy.
But first, a joke:
"President Bush blasted Congress for not allowing oil exploration in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Democrats said it wouldn’t do any good, because it wouldn’t produce oil for 10 years. You know, the same thing they said 10 years ago." – Jay Leno
That joke is [...]

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Tuesday Political Stuff

April 29, 2008

I'm sick of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright being all over the news. The racist old fool has already gotten far more air time than he deserves, so I'm not going to bother getting into Wright's latest rounds of silliness and nonsense with Bill "Neville" Moyers and the National Press Club. Hatemongers shouldn't get this much [...]

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Scalia On 60 Minutes

April 28, 2008

"At the establishment of our constitutions, the judiciary bodies were supposed to be the most helpless and harmless members of the government. Experience, however, soon showed in what way they were to become the most dangerous; that the insufficiency of the means provided for their removal gave them a freehold and irresponsibility in office; that [...]

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Vote Early, Vote Often

October 10, 2007

There is a case about Indiana voter ID law coming before the Supreme Court. Under voter ID legislation, voters would have to show proper photo ID in order to vote. Conservatives generally support this law, saying that it will reduce voter fraud. Liberals generally oppose the law, claiming that voter fraud is their constitutional right.
Okay, [...]

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Courting Supreme Beings

October 4, 2007

The next president may get to nominate several candidates for the Supreme Court. Here are the ages of some of our current Justices:
John Paul Stevens is 87. Ruth Bader Ginsburg is 74. Anthony Kennedy is 71. Antonin Scalia is 71. Stephen Breyer is 69. David Souter is 68.
Supreme Court appointments are not supposed to be [...]

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