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The Religious Right Didn’t Kill George Tiller

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"The Religious Right Didn't Kill George Tiller," by James Kirchick in the June 3 Wall Street Journal, is a powerful piece. Kirchick is an assistant editor of the liberal New Republicmagazine and a contributing writer to The Advocate, which is ...
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Quote of Note: Obama on the Senate’s Advise and Consent Role

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"As we all know, there's been a lot of discussion in the country about how the Senate should approach this confirmation process. There are some who believe that the President, having won the election, should have the complete authority to ...
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On Sotomayor, Rumors of Conservative Hypocrisy are Overblown

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ScienceBlogs, which, despite the neutral and academic-sounding name, apparently is a left-wing political blog, has a curious attackon "the Right" today on the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor. Since husband David and I are in it, mildly, and post author Ed ...
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Quote of Note: Obama on the Need for Justices to Have “Empathy”

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"...while adherence to legal precedent and rules of statutory or constitutional construction will dispose of 95 percent of the cases that come before a court, so that both a Scalia and a Ginsburg will arrive at the same place most ...
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Outrage of the Day: To the Media, Some Murders Matter More Than Others

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At the time of this writing, there are nearly 7,000 references to "George Tiller" in Google News. There are under 500 for "William Long." George Tiller, of course, was the Kansas abortion doctor murdered Sunday morning by a man who ...
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Michelle Malkin on New Black Panther Case

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Michelle Malkin has been covering (here and here) the Department of Justice's decision on the Philadelphia New Black Panther Party alleged voter intimidation case. She writes, "According to a legal source familiar with DOJ procedures, dismissing a lawsuit won by ...
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Outrage of the Day: Political Decisionmaking at Government Motors

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From "Lawmakers Seek to Influence Plant Locations" by Neil King, Jr. and Kate Linebaugh for the June 2 Wall Street Journal: The Obama administration has said repeatedly that it won't use its majority stake in General Motors Corp. to meddle ...
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The Last Titanic Survivor Has Left Us

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Millvina Dean, the last survivor of the sinking of the RMS Titanic, has died. In 1996, I blogged about the death of the last Titanic survivor with a memory of the sinking of the ship. The tragic story of the ...
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Outrage of the Day: “Subsidymagination”

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Writing in the Washington Examiner, columnist Timothy Carney exposes General Electric's penchant for lobbying the federal government to force us to pay for its products. Carney writes: GE is not simply taking advantage of subsidies that exist -- the company ...
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“Airy Fairy Thinking”

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Our sister blog, the Free Enterpriser, has a two minute and 41 second really great video take-down of cap-and-trade. Take less than three minutes for a fast-paced tutorial by Karry Kudlow of CNBC's Kudlow Report. E-mail any comments to the ...
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