Infidel Bloggers Alliance (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Dick Morris talked about this the other night. What infuriates the liberals most about Palin is not that she is a conservative woman dominating the political stage at the moment. It's that she is a woman dominating the political stage and it is not THEIR woman. These. . . or. . . Human Events : The Rise of the Conservative Woman by Doug Patton One of the most revealing things about liberals is their...
Red State (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Matthew Berry . Not the ESPN guy: the former Clarence Thomas clerk /DoJ/FCC guy. He’s running on a fiscal conservatism/national security/ethics platform; and opposing the infamous Jim Moran, believer in Israeli conspiracies . His statement about Moran’s blathering* on the NYC show trials works for me : “It is wrong for Congressman Moran to question the patriotism of the millions...
MyDD (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
This afternoon I was able to participate in a progressive blogger conference call with Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter, the (relatively) newly minted member of the Democratic caucus in the chamber. I wasn't able to catch all of the call, but I did manage to get into a bit of a conversation with the Senator about filibusters and the judiciary. To stark, I asked which Specter we would see if reelected...
Gay Patriot (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
More than eighteen years ago, a Congresswomen from the San Francisco Bay area led a group of her Democratic female House colleagues in marching across Capitol Hill to demand a delay in the confirmation hearings of then-Judge Clarence Thomas. That woman, a Ma’am Barbara Boxer, was upset because that good man had, in a conversation [...]
Vox Verax (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Rush Limbaugh's race obsession. Jonathan Chait November 2, 2009 TNR The saga of Rush Limbaugh and his failed attempt to acquire a piece of the St. Louis Rams may be the quintessential postmodern American racial incident. When word first leaked of Limbaugh's potential ownership, a couple of sportswriters, joined by a handful of cable news talking heads, repeated what turned out to be totally unsubstantiated...
Rising Hegemon (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
Stop the presses: "So why do you beat up on people if you already know? I don't know, because I don't beat up on 'em. I refuse to participate. I don't like it, so I don't do it," Thomas said during an appearance before law students at the University of Alabama. Not to reveal too much of my real life, but there is a tendency to pick on attorneys on occasion or for appellate judges to ask questions...
The Corner (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
My column today is on "civility." Here's the open: There is much gnashing of teeth and rending of cloth these days about the death of civility. Apparently, like Cupid with his arrow or a pixie with fairy dust, some magical sprite used to enchant America’s political combatants, ensuring that all public discourse was full of beg-your-pardons and please-and-thank-yous. But we have offended...
National Review Online (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
T here is much gnashing of teeth and rending of cloth these days about the death of civility. Apparently, like Cupid with his arrow or a pixie with fairy dust, some magical sprite used to enchant America’s political combatants, ensuring that all public discourse was full of beg-your-pardons and please-and-thank-yous. But we have offended our little leprechaun. He’s taken his Lucky Charms...
NewsBusters (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
Saturday's “Weekend Edition” of the Wall Street Journal will feature an op-ed from Rush Limbaugh, that went online earlier tonight, in which Limbaugh, echoing his on-air observations , outlines how “this spectacle is bigger” than just being about left-wingers trying to keep him out of the NFL. After noting the leading roles of race-hustlers Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson in...
Hullabaloo (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
How Do You LIke It Now? by digby Limbaugh has a supporter at the Washington Post : I am no Limbaugh fan. Not only is he infamous for ugly remarks, but he is a practitioner in the politics of hate. But -- and here I write as someone with a special interest in the First Amendment -- Limbaugh is being banished for essentially exercising his right to speak. Why do educated people continuously write this...
Collecting my Thoughts (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
Today I've been browsing some left of left blogs--they are very angry at Obama. Are people calling them racists or realists? You know the answer. Progressives and Socialists never call themselves racists. (But conservatives do.) So here's a piece from City Journal by Harry Stein about the Boys who cry racism . "That conversation is long overdue, so let’s have at it. Let’s talk, for...
Chicagoray (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
This man who's always good for some real laughs is also serious as a heart attack when it comes to Barack Obama, and he says the only way left to derail the ObamaNation is to focus on the still obviously unresolved Obama birth issue as if he just came up with the idea, laying out his strategy for having Clarence Thomas be the one to get the case heard basically!!! It's good, although, he cuts into...
Bench Memos (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
I'd rather watch Justice Clarence Thomas give a speech about the greatness of Abraham Lincoln. Fortunately, Justice Thomas gave a wonderful speech on just that subject two weeks ago at Washington and Lee University--and in the Lee Chapel no less. (Think about that: Justice Thomas praising President Lincoln in a chapel named for General Lee in Virginia. A nice moment.) I was there for the speech, which...
The Daily Doubter (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
Via Think Progress , Rep. Paul Broun (R-Ga.) I’ve gotten to be good friends with Justice Antonin Scalia, who he and Justice Clarence Thomas are the only ones who have any concept of what the Constitution is supposed to be and, and do what they’re supposed to do as justices by upholding the Constitution. But, in fact every, when I was sworn into the Marine Corp, I was sworn to uphold the...
Truth Out (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. (Illustration: Jared Rodriguez / t r u t h o u t) Washington - A recast Supreme Court kicked off its new season Monday, with novice Justice Sonia Sotomayor immediately taking center stage. read more
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