March 11, 2010 – 9:13 pm
Remember, the 9th is the most liberal Circuit court in the country, and has previously ruled against the use of “Under God” vis a vis the Pledge of Allegiance in schools (reversed by SCOTUS) in Newdow v. U.S. Congress. Among other activist and crazy decisions. So, how the heck did they come up with this? […]
March 4, 2010 – 10:00 am
Here we go: Darwin Foes Add Warming to Targets Critics of the teaching of evolution in the nation’s classrooms are gaining ground in some states by linking the issue to global warming, arguing that dissenting views on both scientific subjects should be taught in public schools. My first thought when I caught the headline and […]
March 2, 2010 – 6:59 pm
I can just imagine the shocked and snooty looking faces at the LA Times and among liberals when they read this story, a bit of a follow up to what I posted the other day Justices signal they’re ready to make gun ownership a national right Liberals: “WTF? Can they do that? Does it actually […]
March 1, 2010 – 7:57 am
If there is any document out there that is more annoying to people on the Left, it is the Bill of Rights. To them, it is something to be used when it serves their purposes, and denigrated or ignored when it hurts their radical agenda. They read “rights” into it that are not there, and […]
February 9, 2010 – 10:19 am
A bit of a kerfuffle going on in ye olde home state Residents in King were fumed over the weekend after a state of emergency declaration restricted the sale of alcohol and the carrying of firearms in vehicles. King Police Chief Paula May said she’s received hundreds of threats related to the restrictions, which banned […]
February 5, 2010 – 9:44 pm
Hey, uh, folks out at the TEA Party in Nashville? You. Are. Not. Helping. They will proudly boast of how they have galvanised ordinary Americans against runaway government spending, but a dark underbelly of xenophobia has been exposed at the first national gathering of the Tea Party movement. Here in the vast Gaylord resort in […]
January 25, 2010 – 5:55 pm
If it’s yet another day ending with a “y,” it must be another day that Obama is planning on hosing private business President Barack Obama, criticized by campaign finance reform advocates for not living up to his repeated pledges to reduce the role of special interests in elections, plans an aggressive push-back to last week’s […]
January 22, 2010 – 8:13 am
If you haven’t heard about the SCOTUS decision, here’s a little recap Overruling two important precedents about the First Amendment rights of corporations, a bitterly divided Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the government may not ban political spending by corporations in candidate elections. The 5-to-4 decision was a vindication, the majority said, of the […]
January 11, 2010 – 10:30 am
I usually avoid discussion of certain issues, such as gay marriage, because they are not really hot button issues with me. Furthermore, while, if pressed, I do not support gay marriage, I do support civil unions, and, this being America, where freedom should reign supreme, and, with a Classical Liberal doctrine of “if it doesn’t […]
January 1, 2010 – 7:59 am
The question is, is this something they will actually do, and, why are they doing it now? Republican attorneys general in 13 states say congressional leaders must remove Nebraska’s political deal from the federal health care overhaul bill or face legal action, according to a letter provided to The Associated Press Wednesday. “We believe this […]
