Death threats are not an acceptable method of expressing your disagreement with someone else’s political point of view. I happen to like Dick Armey for his career-long status as a budget hawk, but that is totally irrelevant — like all… Continue Reading
Thanks to Reader Maxwell James for pointing out this article, which lends a remarkable perspective to a matter which has caused so many people so much anguish recently. If the Maggie Halberman/Ben Smith article is right, the Park51 project to… Continue Reading
Here’s a combination of the wrong reaction to the Park51 mosque controversy, courtesy of the Speaker of the House of Representatives herself, Nancy Pelosi: The speaker questioned what was motivating the political opposition to the mosque, suspecting that the issue… Continue Reading
Allow me to point you Readers to an article at Slate Salon chronicling the evolution of the “Mosque right on top of two blocks from Ground Zero” controversy. From its inception until less than four months ago, Cordoba House project… Continue Reading
Judge Walker has ordered that the stay of entry of judgment in Perry v. Schwarzenegger will expire at 5:00 p.m. on August 18. That means at the start of business on August 19, 2010, California will once again be a… Continue Reading
One of the “facts” being thrown around in the swirling debate about immigration is the phenomenon of “anchor babies.” The legend is that an illegal immigrant will come to the U.S. and have a baby here. Because that baby is… Continue Reading
My city has adopted a policy by which its City Council devotes a few minutes after calling the meeting to order for the delivery of an invocation — an invocation which permits of sectarian invocations, such as “…and this we… Continue Reading
I’m not all that impressed with Barack Obama, either. But has he really earned Ben Quayle’s attack as “the worst President in history”? My choice for that label is number fifteen: As bad as Obama is — the worst deficit… Continue Reading
I’ve grudgingly accepted that taxes are going to need to stay where they are for the foreseeable future, we can’t afford a tax cut until we have become more solvent and reduced out debt. So Paul Krugman’s accusation that Paul… Continue Reading
Elena Kagan was just confirmed to the Supreme Court by a vote of 63 to 37, mostly along party lines. No one ever seemed to get really enthusiastic about her or really enthusiastic against her. Maybe that’s a good thing… Continue Reading