Plain Truth about Kagan

June 29, 2010

Congress is busy once again with bold new efforts to silence political speech in the very arena where it has the most impact – elections. Much of the public reacted badly to the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Citizens United striking down parts of the McCain-Feingold “campaign reform” act. I suspect many of the critics suffer [...]

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First Amendment Suspended

June 24, 2010

. . . in Dearborn, Michigan. But down the road in Lansing, the results are a little different. [Rev. John] Elieff acknowledged the group’s right to protest, but he said the church’s civil rights were infringed upon when the service was disrupted. No one was arrested at the church, and, Elieff said, as far as [...]

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Obanality

June 20, 2010

George Will says, “The news about his speech is that it is no longer news that he often gives bad speeches. This one, however, was almost magnificently awful.”  And the string of martial metaphors on the oil spill prompts this: “Our government declares war promiscuously—on drugs, poverty, cancer, environmental problems, etc.—but never when actually going [...]

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Education on the Rocks

June 7, 2010

Glenn Reynolds (a/k/a Instapundit) writes about the growing bubble in higher education.  I think he’s right in the main.  The cost of college has skyrocketed far in excess what colleges deliver.  Easy credit in the form of student loans inflates the bubble. But here’s where I disagree.  Reynolds offers three justifications for getting a college [...]

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Small Arms Fire

June 5, 2010

The Easy Charge of Hypocrisy. Michael Gerson explains why conservatives don’t survive sex scandals. Yet moral liberals have something to learn as well. The failure of human beings to meet their own ideals does not disprove or discredit those ideals. The fact that some are cowards does not make courage a myth. The fact that [...]

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Delegitimizing Defense

June 4, 2010

Krauthammer sums it up pretty well: Israel can’t have a forward defense – a buffer zone – but must trade land for peace. The land was traded, and there was no peace. Israel can’t have an active defense – disrupting the terrorists – but must stop provoking its neighbors. Israel stopped, and the neighbors became [...]

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Europe’s Economy Explained

June 2, 2010
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The Fruits of Weakness

June 1, 2010

Spengler notes that the readings from the Torah this past week included the story of the 12 spies sent by Moses to scout out the Promised Land.  Joshua and Caleb argued that an invasion by the Israelites would succeed.  The other ten outvoted them, which resulted in another 40 years of wandering in the desert. [...]

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The Last Day of Bonnie and Clyde

May 23, 2010

Bonnie and Clyde died in a hail of gunfire on this date 76 years ago on a rural Louisiana road. Each received about 50 bullet wounds. Clyde was 24 years old; Bonnie was 23. I passed by that site recently and had a conversation with the son of Ted Hinton.  Ted was a Dallas County [...]

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Lessons in the Art of Piracy

May 11, 2010

Those of us who have had the pleasure of watching Johnny Depp (heavily influenced by Keith Richards) play Captain Jack Sparrow in the “Pirates of the Caribbean” movies (not to mention Errol Flynn in “Captain Blood”) know that pirating is at its roots an art.  But plying one’s art takes practice, and everybody is looking [...]

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