Speaking of Andrew Sullivan, he writes this (2/17): "...under almost any rational understanding of equal protection, civil marriage has to be extended to gay couples." Ah, no. Silly (though dangerous) statement, really, and one he only gets away with because ...
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I'm not the only one, it seems, that took exception to Andrew Sullivan calliing Washington conservatives "extremists" for our disappointment with Orrin Hatch over Judiciary Committee controversies. The Spoons Experience blog had the same reaction I did, but with a ...
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Project 21 is applauding the recess appointment of Bill Pryor. Part of the group's press release: After a vote on his nomination was blocked by obstructionists in the U.S. Senate for over ten months, President George W. Bush today installed ...
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The New York Times has a ridiculous editorial on Bill Pryor today. It is not even high school level material. For example, anyone want to bet that the Times' complaint in the piece that Pryor "argued in favor of a ...
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This is what happens when legislation is sought for political rather than policy reasons. Yes, I know it is easy for me to say that, since I work for a think-tank and no one here ever has to face the ...
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National Center executive director David W. Almasi has some advice for Texas Republicans: There is political turmoil in Texas over charges made by a left-wing organization that the speaker of the Texas House of Representatives and a political group linked ...
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Thanks to a pointer from the "Everything I Know Is Wrong" blog, I visited the Captain's Quarters. I don't usually comment on such things, or even notice them particularly (as readers may have concluded from my own rather minimalist blog ...
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Our Bonner Cohen has a thoughtful piece on Tech Central Station on a proposal Greenpeace is pushing that Bonner believes is dangerous. Greenpeace wants trucks and freight trains carrying chemicals banned from Washington, D.C., and is pushing the D.C. city ...
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The Hill newspaper's take on a meeting last Thursday between conservatives and a handful of Republican Senators on the judicial nominations/leaked memos issue. David Almasi, who is quoted in the article, attended for us (the American Criminal Justice Center referenced ...
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Ted Kennedy, one of the Democrats involved, has tried to paint the Judiciary Committee memo situation as another Watergate break-in. In Watergate, it wasn't the break-in that did in Nixon. It was the cover-up. And Kennedy's attack on those who ...
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