Essay
Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch writes in National Review Online about the proper method of “advise and consent” that should be exercised by the Senate with regards to the process of nominating a Supreme Court Justice. The fact that the president and the Senate each has a role, however, does not make those roles co-equal. The…
Michelle Malkin has a wonderfully effective way of being quite direct. Consider this posting entitled Shut Up and Teach: The National Education Association recently had its annual convention, where it called for President Bush to withdraw our troops from Iraq, vowed to defeat the Central American Free Trade Agreement, and resolved to educate about the…
Here is an excerpt about judicial activism from an earlier posting entitled Rediscovering Civility and Purpose in America’s Public Discourse: Many of these aggressive attempts by liberal fundamentalists to redirect societal practices have been done through a hyperactive judiciary. It has been going on for enough decades now and, with our weak knowledge of history,…
I’ve thought that there was some credence to be given to the flypaper theory–fight the terrorists there so we won’t have to fight them here–as applied to Iraq. With the recent London bombings as background, Gregory Scoblete convincingly argues that Iraq-as-flypaper is a flawed theory. The strategy of aggressively preempting terrorists and terror-threats, the essence…
Implicit in the public debate about the upcoming Supreme Court nomination is the assumption by many on the left that any nominee by President Bush is going to be an activist from the right who will seek to undo the aggressive legislating done by the Court in recent years with an equally aggressive counter response.…
Two political issues, important to concerned citizens here in Rhode Island, arose at the end of the legislative session here in Rhode Island. The first issue, as reported in this ProJo article, is about lobbyist spending disclosure requirements: …Fending off cries from Common Cause of Rhode Island and Secretary of State Matt Brown that their…
The following comments were made in a Wall Street Journal editorial (available for a fee) entitled Jayhawk Judgment: …[In Kansas] the state Supreme Court has commanded that the legislature must increase spending on the schools, as well as the taxes to pay for it, by precisely $853 million over the next two years. This week…
A debatable comment from the Providence Journal’s editorial about the London bombings: Thursday’s attacks seemed clearly timed to coincide with the opening of the G-8 summit meeting in Scotland, where efforts to help Africa (home of almost 350 million Muslims) have been high on the agenda. Quite a gulf between that and Islamic terrorists’ agenda…
My latest column for TheFactIs.org — “Reasoning with the Id” — responds to a recent piece by Lee Harris. To summarize too drastically, Harris seeks to find a place for tradition in a world of reason. Me, I think is more accurate to stress that rationality already exists in a world of tradition.