A group of libertarians seeks refuge from our parasite society by forming some sort of ocean colony. Whether this even puts them above the mean level of craziness among the contemporary American comservative movement is unclear. I mean, beats this, you have to admit...[Link to...
Month: May 2009
Friday Cat Blogging... Starbuck and Ripley
It doesn't get much better than Fred Barnes questioning Sonia Sotomayor's intellectual credentials (in the midst, natch, of wholly unsubstantiated assertions that Sotomayor has been a beneficiary of affirmative action)..
You'll be shocked to see double standards about that less-than-precise category known as "judicial temperament" manifesting themselves....
Randy Paul has been writing an excellent series on medical professionals and torture, stemming from his attendance of a symposium on the subject two weeks ago. Long story short, "enhanced.
I have an article up over at Comment Is Free about he Sotomayor nomination. Since her confirmation is (barring unforseen circumstances) inevitable, what matters is the nature of the process.
There's a great little exchange at the beginning of the Godfather II, when the corrupt senator is trying to shake down Michael Corleone. The senator makes a point of pronouncing Corleone's name with exaggerated correctness. This is a double insult, both because of the exaggeration,...
The GOP doesn't like the fact that they're not working as well as they used to for reactionary southern (or mock-southern, as the case may be) white men.
Dana Milbank is the latest to assert that Sotomayor just can't be all that bright and doesn't know her place. Does anyone think in a million years that Milbank would.
Adam has the inevitably hacktacular Stuart Taylor dead to rights here:Moreover, Taylor, who believes the greatest injustice in Western history was Sotomayor's failure to ignore established precedent in the Ricci case and act as an empathetic, activist judge on behalf of a plaintiff he finds...
Eugene Volokh expresses concern about the consequences of having an actual liberal on the Supreme Court:And she might move that seat further to the left, if she proves to be.
Max Baucus will not allow them to feast on the warm, nourishing brains of his constituents:"Housing potential terrorists in Montana is not good for our state," Max Baucus, the state's.