Some initial observations based on a first reading of the Court's opinion striking down voluntary school integration programs in Louisville and Seattle:Nothing in the text of the Constitution compels these programs to be struck down. Essentially, Roberts's plurality opinion rests on the assertion that racial...
Month: June 2007
Stevens, dissenting in the Seattle integration case:There is a cruel irony in The Chief Justice’s reliance on our decision in Brown v. Board of Education, The first sentence in the.
An anonymous couple has a website up through which they are trying to raise $50,000 to allow them to have a child. If they dont' raise the money they don't.
Another big day at the Supreme Court today. In addition to striking down a school racial integration plan (maybe Scott will say more on this. I'm disgusted but not surprised), the Court also struck down the death penalty in the case of a man whose...
A judicial panel in Scotland has held that the only person convicted in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 may have been wrongly convicted and that potentially exculpatory evidence.
And the Alito Court marches on; this was, alas, all too predictable. More when the opinions are released....opinions in pdf form here. Will post links to a format compatible with.
Ted Barlow has received a sneak preview of the next subtitle of Jonah Goldberg's forthcoming epochal work of American letters:Liberal Fascism: From Plato to the Pet Shop Boys.National Review editor Jonah Goldberg lays out, in devastating fashion, the parallels between Hitler's National Socialist party and...
Shorter Verbatim Jonah Goldberg: "Brad Plummer [sic] is having predictable good fun with it. Of course, he doesn't really seem to know what he's talking about (oh, and it's not.
An investigation of the Planned Parenthood being targeted by deposed Kansas panty-sniffer-in-chief Phil Kline shows that -- he had nothing. Shocking! Meanwhile, this article about pro-choice politics in Kansas is.
Sam:The Employee Free Choice Act died in the Senate yesterday by a vote of 51-48 -- nine votes short of what would be needed for cloture.Huh. I wonder if maybe it would have been a good idea to call Frist's bluff on the "nuclear option"...
I think, amazingly, that original title was a trfile less idiotic. I must admit that I'm unclear about how a chain selling food voluntarily to willing consumers represents "fascism" and.
Last week, Davida and I visited the US Marine Corps museum in Quantico. The museum is located on the unfortunately dubbed Jefferson Davis Highway (what, Hitler Highway was taken? Tojo.