Dr. Tiller, a man who provided abortions to patients who requested them, often because the fetus they carried was unsustainable, was murdered today. I await the usual BS from the forced pregnancy crowd. Right on cue. “Operation Rescue has worked tirelessly on peaceful, non-violent measures to bring him to justice through the legal system, the …
I know I lived in a musical dead zone from about 1980-2000, but even so, how did I miss Natalie Merchant? On a recommendation from John Cole, I checked out a copy of Tigerlily, and I’m very favorably impressed. On this album Merchant’s voice reminds me a little of Carly Simon’s, and some of the …
Media Matters’ Jamison Foser asks “How come it’s okay for Republicans to call Judge Sotomayor a racist based on a deliberate misinterpretation of a single sentence in an eight-year-old speech, but when Democrats pointed out that Judge Alito had been a proud member of a sexist and racist organization at Princeton, that was over some …
Who knew all these Republicans expressed empathy too? Samuel Alito believes empathy is an important quality in a Supreme Court justice. So does George H.H.[sic] Bush. Sandra Day O’Connor had the audacity to concede that jurists can and should consider gender and race when weighing the merits of a case. As it turns out, even …
About a week ago I received a generic-looking business envelope in the mail with “Reward Headquarters” in the return address. Since I’ve gotten on average about a dozen pieces of e-mail spam a day recently from “EuroLottery,” I assumed this was the snail-mail equivalent and put it aside. I just opened it. It’s a good …
In a post titled “It Sticks in My Craw” a guy named Krikorian at National Review’s The Corner says Judge Sotomayor’s name is too hard to pronounce correctly: Deferring to people’s own pronunciation of their names should obviously be our first inclination, but there ought to be limits. Putting the emphasis on the final syllable …
From Richard Viguerie’s Conservative HQ blog: “This is an enormous opportunity for conservatives to define President Obama as a radical liberal in a way that Republicans have so far failed to do. “This is the first opportunity in over 40 years for conservatives to have a national debate on the role of the judiciary. Conservatives …
The airwaves had barely stopped moving after President Obama’s nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to SCOTUS when Karl Rove was on the attack against her. Today on Fox “News” Rove said “I’m not really certain how intellectually strong she would be, she has not been very strong on the second circuit.” Karl Rove: “In June …
When televising special events which include music, is it too hard to display a Chyron graphic at the bottom of the screen identifying the orchestral selection by name? Presumably the orchestra or band has a program of its performance pre-printed, so it’s not like you’re uninformed. This cranky thought generated while watching C-Span’s coverage of …
Ben Cayetano was governor of the State of Hawai’i from 1994-2002. He recently published what by most accounts is a candid memoir of his life, and a lot of us would like to read it. A lot of us. The original press run was 3,500. It sold out in six weeks, surprising its publisher (Watermark) …