1) 'Tis the season! No, not the "holiday" season -- it's Supreme Court decision season!!!

[Chief Justice] Roberts has written seven opinions, all but one unanimous. Among them, he bolstered police power to enter a home to break up a fight without knocking first; upheld a church's use of hallucinogenic tea; and found that the government can force ( Read more... )

I'm very happy the President nominated Judge Alito to fill O'Connor's seat on the SCOTUS. Unlike even Chief Justice Roberts, Judge Alito has 15 years of experience on the circuit courts. This sets a positive precedent for both future Republican and Democrat presidents: instead of picking stealth liberal/conservative nominees, presidents should (and ( Read more... )

I'm in a rush to pack and fly down to Florida for my lil' bro's graduation (in Oct? Yeah, he goes to a weird school) so I'll be relying on NR quite a bit today. Since we're often in 100% agreement and they know how to say things better than I can, it's better for all involved that I let them do the talking. (When I get back, now that the holidays ( Read more... )

I know I've been MIA for a few weeks; between Rosh HaShannah, Yom Kippur and Sukkot plus the opening of our new store in Manchester, I haven't had much time for this website (or even following the news as closely as I usually do). Nonetheless, I've been following the Miers nonesense to the best of my abilities. As I often do, I will defer to ( Read more... )

I still have to write about the night with Rabbi Lapin, but for now I'll leave you with the pros and cons of Harriet Miers.

It's the holiday season so I haven't been updating as much. I'm not so thrilled about the nomination of Harriet Miers but I am hopeful. (Of course, I'd rather be *sure* than hopeful...) I'll post more at the end of the week.

L'Shannah Tovah!

Here are stories I've been sitting on for almost a week. If I don't close them, my comp is going to melt down; but if I don't post them, I'll feel as though I've kept something important from you!

1) Presidential aspirant and governor of MA, Mitt Romney has called for the US intelligence services to monitor mosques that are being used to "preach ( Read more... )

Andy McCarthy's post on NRO regarding the lunatic decision that children can't say the Pledge of Allegience because it somehow violates the First Amendment:

Mark [Levin] has just been talking on the radio about how the kid doesn't have to say the pledge and is even free to leave the room. That is so right, of course, but you know what infuriates ( Read more... )

1) President Bush will nominate Judge Janice Rogers Brown to be the next associate Justice of the SCOTUS.

2) Whomever the President nominates, Ted Kennedy will call him/her a threat to women's rights, the environment, minorities, the poor, and maybe even kittens.

I like to email articles to myself to post at a later date, but occasionally I notice that my mailbox is full of this stuff and I haven't done anything with it so I dump it on you like this:

1) Jonah Goldberg makes an eloquent argument in favor of the "Don't just do something, stand there!" school of conservative thought:

I've written many times ( Read more... )