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Gribbit of STOP THE ACLU posted today on this article by Lee Ellis (a retired journalist and a former vice president of both CBS and Gannet), which was published on 29 June 2005 at ChronWatch.com. In the wake of the recent, perplexing decisions by the Supreme Court with regard to the Ten Commandments, I […]

The Supreme Court this week and last issued many rulings, and though they were on different issues the decisions themselves had at least one thing in common: They seemed to reflect a lack of basic human modesty on the part of many of the justices. Many are famously very old, and they have been together […]

To hear all the groans from the left today about Bush’s sin of “linking 9-11 to Iraq,” you would think that they had something new with which to skewer President Bush in the wake of his outstanding and moving speech last night. In reply to the condemnations of self-important yet forgetful liberal elitists, I […]

In President George W. Bush’s decisive speech at Ft. Bragg, NC on Iraq and the War on Terror, he mentioned a website:
AmericaSupportsYou.mil (that’s DOT-MIL)
At that site, you’ll find news and information regarding the wonderful job that the U.S. Military is doing in Iraq, Afghanastan, and around the world in the global war on terror. […]

Some among us are puzzled (and surely, some relieved) that the long-predicted resignations of Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist and/or Associate Justice John Paul Stevens somehow didn’t make the network news as anticipated on Monday. After all, like them or not, they are rather… mature: Rehnquist is 80 years young and battling thyroid cancer; […]

Could it be possibly true? In the wake of the Kelo decision last week, could the Towne of Weare, New Hampshire, seek to commence an application process requesting that a hotel be built on the same property where Supreme Court Justice David Souter’s home now resides?
Here is the text of the press release from […]

In an effort to try to connect with the French-looking junior senator from Taxachusetts (after all, isn’t communication what blogging is all about?), I thought that I’d try, this week, the following (courtesy of AltaVista’s Babel Fish (Is this a great tool, or what?):
Le Cher Sénateur Kerry : Je vous prie d’effectuer votre […]

Soy Como Soy has opined recently on last week’s outrageous eminent domain decision by the SCOTUS. I liked the bipartisan take on this matter:
This issue really has nothing to do with politics, but has everything to do simply with what’s right and wrong.
So when one says that we have to keep Republicans […]

As you may or may not already be aware, members of the Watcher’s Council hold a vote every week on what they consider to be the most link-worthy pieces of writing around… per the Watcher’s instructions, I am submitting one of my own posts for consideration in the upcoming nominations process.
Here is the most […]

The following is an open letter to President Bush posted recently at T F Stern’s Rantings. It’s from-the-heart and timely, especially given the outrageous KELO V. NEW LONDON decision and an imminent Supreme Court bench vacancy. It’s never too late to email the president, at
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Honorable George W. Bush
President […]

Washington DC: The uproar has not subsided around Capitol Hill, even now that the final razing of the building that once housed the Supreme Court of the United States is complete. The space that contained the once-proud facade on First St. NE will soon be developed as an extension of the Jefferson Building […]

On a tip from Fox News and Cao’s Blog, I hopped on over to this U.S. News and World Report article. “Eurolefties fund Iraq insurgency” proclaims the headline. It seems that far-kook AntAmerican wackjob organizations (linked from in the original article; I will not link to them here) have a campaign to collect 10-euro donations […]

Ogre, of Ogre’s Politics and Views (yea, the horizontal blog), had a little something to say about church and state recently:
Did you know that the VERY FIRST Act of the first Continental Congress in 1774 was a motion to pause for a prayer? The motion passed (obviously) and it was actually a Jewish prayer that […]

The Op-Ed pages in The Washington Post seldom provide such a contrast in left-right ideology as they have done on 24 June 2005. For me, these two seemingly unrelated columns illustrate the striking difference between Principle on the one hand, and Expediency on the other.

Here’s a foolproof method for keeping America safe: Always do the exact 180-degree opposite of whatever Jimmy Carter says as quickly as possible.
–Ann Coulter, from her 22 June 2005 column on Guantanamo
[This Week’s Bonus! MAN, do I love this pic of Ann.]

I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself… I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and the sole control of those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal.
–Roger Baldwin (1884-1981). Founder, The American Civil Liberties Union
Think of that for a second. This is the founder […]

My wife and I took our kids to the circus recently — Cole Bros., one of the great traveling shows that allow kids of all ages everywhere a taste of what circuses used to be like. My 3 year old was hypnotized, all aflutter and googley-eyed, as we entered the Big Top. She was probably […]

The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall.
–Sir Francis Bacon, Of Goodness

I came across a post today at at T.F. Stern’s Rantings, the blog of one of my fairly regular visitors. I had to share it, since I feel it encapsulates well a question that has gnawed at the back of my biological motherboard not a few times. As a blogger — heck, as a […]

Their understanding
Begins to swell and the approaching tide
Will shortly fill the reasonable shores
That now lie foul and muddy.
–William Shakespeare

You don’t have to be Shakespeare to know that something lies foul and muddy over much of the information that should have been released to the public with the signing and submission of Sen. […]

As you may or may not already be aware, members of the Watcher’s Council hold a vote every week on what they consider to be the most link-worthy pieces of writing around… per the Watcher’s instructions, I am submitting one of my own posts for consideration in the upcoming nominations process.
Here is the most […]

Ok, ok, so I did it. I committed the sin of pidgeonholing… myself. Just to see how it feels.

TMH’s Political Profile

Overall: 80% Conservative, 20% Liberal

Social Issues: 100% Conservative, 0% Liberal

Personal Responsibility: 50% Conservative, 50% Liberal

Fiscal Issues: 75% Conservative, 25% Liberal

Ethics: 75% Conservative, 25% Liberal

Defense and Crime: 100% Conservative, 0% Liberal

This result follows from answering about […]

Avian influenza (or bird flu) outbreaks have devastated the poultry industry in Asia in recent years. Since 2003, avian flu has swept through poultry populations of at least nine countries in Eastern Asia and Southeast Asia. Tens of millions of chickens have either died form infection or have been slaughtered to contain viral spread.
Passage […]

Sid Goldberg died recently and was mourned by his wife Lucianne and her extended familiy at her Lucianne.com site. Their son Jonah Goldberg, who is Editor-at-Large at National Review Online, has published there for Fathers’ Day the remarks he made at his father’s memorial service. Much impressed, I sent him a letter which […]

Meet the new poster children for PeTA:

JUNE 17, 2005: Two employees of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals were arrested on animal cruelty charges in Ahoskie, N.C., after investigators saw dead dogs being thrown into a grocery store garbage container Wednesday, according to the Ahoskie Police Department.
Ahoskie police conducting surveillance as part of a […]