Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg says she would like to see another woman appointed to the court to succeed Sandra Day O'Connor, but "any woman will not do." Ginsburg told the audience at an annual New York lecture on women and the law, named in her honor, that some potential female nominees "would not advance human rights or women's rights."
She added, "I have a list of highly qualified women, but the president has not consulted me." As for John Roberts' view that foreign law should have no bearing on U.S. Supreme Court decisions, Ginsburg said she will "take enlightenment wherever I can find it."
Many of the most persistently gloomy reports about the U.S. economy have long been based on the single most misleading statistic the government produces. Â According to New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, "the purchasing power of an average non-supervisory worker's wage has fallen about 1.5 percent since the summer of 2003."
"This case is about free inquiry in education, not about a religious agenda," argued Patrick Gillen of the Thomas More Law Center in Ann Arbor, Mich. "Dover's modest curriculum change embodies the essence of liberal education." The center, which lobbies for what it sees as the religious freedom of Christians, is defending the school district.
"This case is about free inquiry in education, not about a religious agenda," argued Patrick Gillen of the Thomas More Law Center in Ann Arbor, Mich. "Dover's modest curriculum change embodies the essence of liberal education." The center, which lobbies for what it sees as the religious freedom of Christians, is defending the school district.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Harry Reid was a famously nice guy before he became the Senate Democratic leader. Although reliably partisan, he built a well-earned reputation for playing the role of nice guy, the man of genial calm.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Harry Reid was a famously nice guy before he became the Senate Democratic leader. Although reliably partisan, he built a well-earned reputation for playing the role of nice guy, the man of genial calm.
Have you heard about what New York Sen. Charles Schumer's meddling minions tried to do here in my home state of Maryland to embarrass a Republican opponent?
Ronnie Earle, the Texas prosecutor who indicted Tom DeLay, denies any political motivation for his investigation into the Republican leader. But Earle was the featured speaker at a Democratic fundraiser earlier this year, where the Houston Chronicle reports Earle compared DeLay to a bully, and talked about political corruption and the DeLay investigation.
And this summer, Earle dropped felony charges against four corporations indicted for making illegal contributions to Delay's political action committee, in exchange for contributing as much as $1 million to one of his pet causes. The National Review reports that after at least one company balked at the sum, Earle settled for pledges of up to $100,000 to a University of Texas program on how corporations influence American democracy.
fold, the indictment will just get your hopes up. you will be sorely disappointed when it is all over.
I am SO happy Delay has been indicted, as he so richly deserves it. of course you are. you do realize that there is something terribly wrong with someone that is happy about others misfortune.
Let's see...that's 3 investigations in-progress that could put this asshole in prison... THREE! dream on, fold.
Welcome to the Neo-Conservative Meltdown. Pull up a chair and grab some popcorn... this will be a Matinee to remember. wishful thinking, fold.
A: The indictment leaves that unclear.It states that the three men entered into an agreement to carry out the scheme in September 2002, but it does not provide any evidence. Â Â
Also, what has he been convicted of? Remember how we were told that people are innocent until being proven guilty during Clinton's problems?
this will be a Matinee to remember.
Sure will as the Democrats will end up looking even more petty and vindictive than they already do. Don't fool yourself into thinking that Delay will roll over on this one. I think he will win this flimsy case against him and then Earle will look like the fool that he is with his movie deal and speech given about this investigation. http://www.drivedemocracy.org/blog/index.php?p=274He may even end up defending charges of his own.
The real problem is that there are so many campaign finance laws. They need to get rid of most of them. The law should require public disclosure of contributors and not set limitations on donations. As it is the laws are simply a political tool.
When schools are run by the government, the details of ninth-grade biology classes, the propriety of patriotic rituals, and every other educational issue -- ranging from how to teach math and reading to the contents of vending machines -- becomes a political issue. Even when the arguments don't end up in court, they generate acrimony and resentment that could be avoided if education were entirely a private matter.
"I think you can put up John Roberts' ideological twin and you'd get a filibuster at this point. Their base is demanding it," said Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., about Senate Democrats. "I think unless the person has written extensively about Roe [in a positive way], you're going to get a filibuster. And that's unlikely. I just think a filibuster is going to happen."
"Democrats will end up looking even more petty and vindictive than they already do. Don't fool yourself into thinking that Delay will roll over on this one. I think he will win this flimsy case against him and then Earle will look like the fool that he is with his movie deal and speech given about this investigation."
There is nothing in the indictment that specifically shows DeLay doing anything illegal. The so-called money laundering was legal and Democrats have done it as well. Ronnie Earl is a hack and everyone in Texas knows it.
From Media Blog at NRO: An Institute on Money in State Politics study reveals that on Oct. 31, 2002, the Texas Democratic Party did the same thing when it sent $75,000 to the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and received $75,000 back from the DNC the very same day.
Just to put this $190,000 deal into perspective and demonstrate the petty, vindictive nature of this partisan investigation, the study also reveals that Democrats transferred a total of approximately $11 million dollars in soft money from its national parties to fund Texas campaigns in 2002, compared to $5.2 million transferred by Republicans.
I'm not worried. I see Bush nominating good people with even temprement. It might not be for all the right reasons. But a person can do the right thing for the wrong reasons.
He may be doing a rope-a-dope, but why? He's got the votes and the support. He could go hardline conservative. He's making these nominations for reasons we might not know.
"this time next year"
There might be clear reasons that you don't know now.
You just made my point with Frum's article. Staunch supporters of Bush are coming out of the woodwork against this appointment. They tick off the same list of names they see as a conservative's equivalent of the meat of the Yankee's batting order. Why didn't he pick any of them, they ask.
They wanted a hardliner and now they have a unknown commodity that reeks of cronyism and cowardice.
Bush may not have wanted a fight. He's got enough on his hands.
Shit-hammering this corrupt and inept-administration is something that is long-overdue and call it "complaining about it" if you like, but pointing out the absolute idiocy of the man in the white house, in the open, is a right guaranteed to us all.
long overdue? What make believe world do you live in? Bush has been hammered for over five years.
It is time now for people with integrity on the Left -- and liberal opinion pages -- to show their integrity and defend Bill Bennett against the libel of being a racist who advocated the abortion of all black babies.
But that was an actual theory by an serious but fringe economist whose name I don't remember. He said one of the reasons for the drop in crime rate is that women of low income we aborting children who would grow up to be criminals.
He got flak from every direction and he had to back off.
If you listen to the tape, Bennett said the theory was morally reprehensible. But I do believe the underlying theory was correct based on statistics. it is a question of the ends justifying the means. in the theory the means to the end was totally barbaric.
But I would also be remiss if I didn't close with a confession. As I'm submitting this column, I'm hearing very good things about Ms. Miers from people who know her and whom I trust, like she's a strong, pro-life evangelical Christian, a conservative's conservative, an originalist and a very capable lawyer. If so, I will enthusiastically support her -- and the Left will go to war against her. We should welcome that fight. Â http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/davidlimbaugh/2005/10/04/159249.html
As much fun as it is to see a sanctimonious Bill "One-Armed Bandit" Bennett have to explain himself for his latest shot in foot, fairness should be extended to him as much as anyone. First, he's anti-abortion. Second, he immediately qualifed his remarks.
He probably could have chosen his words better, but he's not the first.
Alert the media! jethro and I agree on something.
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg says she would like to see another woman appointed to the court to succeed Sandra Day O'Connor, but "any woman will not do." Ginsburg told the audience at an annual New York lecture on women and the law, named in her honor, that some potential female nominees "would not advance human rights or women's rights."
She added, "I have a list of highly qualified women, but the president has not consulted me." As for John Roberts' view that foreign law should have no bearing on U.S. Supreme Court decisions, Ginsburg said she will "take enlightenment wherever I can find it."
Alert the media! jethro and I agree on something.
Many of the most persistently gloomy reports about the U.S. economy have long been based on the single most misleading statistic the government produces.
Â
According to New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, "the purchasing power of an average non-supervisory worker's wage has fallen about 1.5 percent since the summer of 2003."
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/alanreynolds/ar20050922.shtml
"This case is about free inquiry in education, not about a religious agenda," argued Patrick Gillen of the Thomas More Law Center in Ann Arbor, Mich. "Dover's modest curriculum change embodies the essence of liberal education." The center, which lobbies for what it sees as the religious freedom of Christians, is defending the school district.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,170417,00.html
"This case is about free inquiry in education, not about a religious agenda," argued Patrick Gillen of the Thomas More Law Center in Ann Arbor, Mich. "Dover's modest curriculum change embodies the essence of liberal education." The center, which lobbies for what it sees as the religious freedom of Christians, is defending the school district.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,170417,00.html
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Harry Reid was a famously nice guy before he became the Senate Democratic leader. Although reliably partisan, he built a well-earned reputation for playing the role of nice guy, the man of genial calm.
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/tonysnow/TS20050926.shtml
Am i here?
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Harry Reid was a famously nice guy before he became the Senate Democratic leader. Although reliably partisan, he built a well-earned reputation for playing the role of nice guy, the man of genial calm.
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/tonysnow/TS20050926.shtml
Is there ANYTHING on Townhall that you do NOT agree with, Jethro?
yes. sometimes I post them. I posted one the other day written by Charles Krauthammer with which I have some disagreement.
Have you heard about what New York Sen. Charles Schumer's meddling minions tried to do here in my home state of Maryland to embarrass a Republican opponent?
http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/michellemalkin/2005/09/28/158545.html
Ronnie Earle, the Texas prosecutor who indicted Tom DeLay, denies any political motivation for his investigation into the Republican leader. But Earle was the featured speaker at a Democratic fundraiser earlier this year, where the Houston Chronicle reports Earle compared DeLay to a bully, and talked about political corruption and the DeLay investigation.
And this summer, Earle dropped felony charges against four corporations indicted for making illegal contributions to Delay's political action committee, in exchange for contributing as much as $1 million to one of his pet causes. The National Review reports that after at least one company balked at the sum, Earle settled for pledges of up to $100,000 to a University of Texas program on how corporations influence American democracy.
fold, the indictment will just get your hopes up. you will be sorely disappointed when it is all over.
I am SO happy Delay has been indicted, as he so richly deserves it. of course you are. you do realize that there is something terribly wrong with someone that is happy about others misfortune.
Let's see...that's 3 investigations in-progress that could put this asshole in prison... THREE! dream on, fold.
Welcome to the Neo-Conservative Meltdown. Pull up a chair and grab some popcorn... this will be a Matinee to remember. wishful thinking, fold.
Couldn't happen to a nicer guy....
Question: On the Nomination (Confirmation John G. Roberts, Jr., of Maryland, to be Chief Justice of the United States)
 http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=1&vote=00245
so Bayh is an extremist. I wouldn't have thought that.
Couldn't happen to a nicer guy....
he may well be a nice guy. but you must realize that it is all politics.
"he may well be a nice guy."
Have him over for YOUR birthday party, then.
An indictement is easy.
Have him over for YOUR birthday party, then.
I would if I thought he would show.
I am SO happy Delay has been indicted, as he so richly deserves it.
What specifically has he been indicted for? Here is a link to the indictment to help you out: http://news.findlaw.com/usatoday/docs/delay/delay92805ind.pdf
Even USA Today can't figure it out:
Also, what has he been convicted of? Remember how we were told that people are innocent until being proven guilty during Clinton's problems?
this will be a Matinee to remember.
Sure will as the Democrats will end up looking even more petty and vindictive than they already do. Don't fool yourself into thinking that Delay will roll over on this one. I think he will win this flimsy case against him and then Earle will look like the fool that he is with his movie deal and speech given about this investigation. http://www.drivedemocracy.org/blog/index.php?p=274He may even end up defending charges of his own.
The real problem is that there are so many campaign finance laws. They need to get rid of most of them. The law should require public disclosure of contributors and not set limitations on donations. As it is the laws are simply a political tool.
When schools are run by the government, the details of ninth-grade biology classes, the propriety of patriotic rituals, and every other educational issue -- ranging from how to teach math and reading to the contents of vending machines -- becomes a political issue. Even when the arguments don't end up in court, they generate acrimony and resentment that could be avoided if education were entirely a private matter.
http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/jacobsullum/2005/09/30/158846.html
"I think you can put up John Roberts' ideological twin and you'd get a filibuster at this point. Their base is demanding it," said Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., about Senate Democrats. "I think unless the person has written extensively about Roe [in a positive way], you're going to get a filibuster. And that's unlikely. I just think a filibuster is going to happen."
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,170827,00.html
I think Brownback wants a filibuster so he can posture like a Big Dog.
I don't know that Bush does. He has a bit of a full plateright now. You can't fight battles on too many fronts.
I think that means another John Roberts type as a nominee. I think Roberts is a good man and good choice.
"Democrats will end up looking even more petty and vindictive than they already do. Don't fool yourself into thinking that Delay will roll over on this one. I think he will win this flimsy case against him and then Earle will look like the fool that he is with his movie deal and speech given about this investigation."
There is nothing in the indictment that specifically shows DeLay doing anything illegal. The so-called money laundering was legal and Democrats have done it as well. Ronnie Earl is a hack and everyone in Texas knows it.
From Media Blog at NRO:
An Institute on Money in State Politics study reveals that on Oct. 31, 2002, the Texas Democratic Party did the same thing when it sent $75,000 to the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and received $75,000 back from the DNC the very same day.
Just to put this $190,000 deal into perspective and demonstrate the petty, vindictive nature of this partisan investigation, the study also reveals that Democrats transferred a total of approximately $11 million dollars in soft money from its national parties to fund Texas campaigns in 2002, compared to $5.2 million transferred by Republicans.
Was I right in prediction 9770?
I think Roberts is a good man and good choice.
I wonder if you will say that this time next year.
I'm not worried. I see Bush nominating good people with even temprement. It might not be for all the right reasons. But a person can do the right thing for the wrong reasons.
He may be doing a rope-a-dope, but why? He's got the votes and the support. He could go hardline conservative. He's making these nominations for reasons we might not know.
"this time next year"
There might be clear reasons that you don't know now.
That wouldn't surprise me.
Lucky 7 joe
"I don't understand why conservatives can't say "ENOUGH ALREADY", when the guy deserves it."
Seems to me like that's all they're doing.
"Talk about "NO" qualifications, this woman has NONE. "
I think the Constitutional requirements are pretty loose. Basically, you can't be a felon and you have to be citizen.
"Oh, really? HOW?"
You just made my point with Frum's article. Staunch supporters of Bush are coming out of the woodwork against this appointment. They tick off the same list of names they see as a conservative's equivalent of the meat of the Yankee's batting order. Why didn't he pick any of them, they ask.
They wanted a hardliner and now they have a unknown commodity that reeks of cronyism and cowardice.
Bush may not have wanted a fight. He's got enough on his hands.
So what are you complaining about? Would you be happier if he kept his word to his party?
"I am not complaining about anything,"
Sorry, I thought you were.
I don't know what that means or why I said it.
You said you weren't complaining.
Pulling up posts from 3 1/2 years ago.
Truly psycho.
Fold now has inside information on the President's speech writers?
Give it up.
He also saves e-mails from 3 1/2 years ago, THX. He has issues.
Talk about "NO" qualifications, this woman has NONE. and what qualifications does she need, fold?
well, fold, certain conservatives, James Doboson for instance, think Meirs will make a good justice.
I am not complaining about anything, except the absolute ignorance of the shitbag in the White House...
ah the kind of attitude and language that will keep conservatives in the White House for a couple of generations.
Shit-hammering this corrupt and inept-administration is something that is long-overdue and call it "complaining about it" if you like, but pointing out the absolute idiocy of the man in the white house, in the open, is a right guaranteed to us all.
long overdue? What make believe world do you live in? Bush has been hammered for over five years.
It is time now for people with integrity on the Left -- and liberal opinion pages -- to show their integrity and defend Bill Bennett against the libel of being a racist who advocated the abortion of all black babies.
http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/dennisprager/2005/10/04/159247.html
Yeah, OK. Maybe Bennett's getting a raw deal.
But that was an actual theory by an serious but fringe economist whose name I don't remember. He said one of the reasons for the drop in crime rate is that women of low income we aborting children who would grow up to be criminals.
He got flak from every direction and he had to back off.
If you listen to the tape, Bennett said the theory was morally reprehensible. But I do believe the underlying theory was correct based on statistics. it is a question of the ends justifying the means. in the theory the means to the end was totally barbaric.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/006073132X/002-6494538-4940030?v=glance
But I would also be remiss if I didn't close with a confession. As I'm submitting this column, I'm hearing very good things about Ms. Miers from people who know her and whom I trust, like she's a strong, pro-life evangelical Christian, a conservative's conservative, an originalist and a very capable lawyer. If so, I will enthusiastically support her -- and the Left will go to war against her. We should welcome that fight.
 http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/davidlimbaugh/2005/10/04/159249.html
http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/news/columnists/12818435.htm
All hail the flashlight king!
As much fun as it is to see a sanctimonious Bill "One-Armed Bandit" Bennett have to explain himself for his latest shot in foot, fairness should be extended to him as much as anyone. First, he's anti-abortion. Second, he immediately qualifed his remarks.
He probably could have chosen his words better, but he's not the first.
Who's less intelligent, an unemployed nomadic hippy or a college and law school graduate that is a practicing attorney?
Practicing attorneys smell.