Would-be theocrat Sarah Palin has now managed to seriously piss me off, despite a lot of forbearance and tolerance on my part. Since being elected Governor, she’s spent $13,000 of Alaska’s taxpayer dollars traveling to religious events. What, there are… Continue Reading
If you’re rooting for the McCain-Palin ticket, you don’t need me to tell you that you want a game-changer to enter the game. You need some good news, and you need it not much later than two weeks before the… Continue Reading
Yeah, I know the market tanked again today. The bears reign supreme. But oil fell below $60 a barrel. That’s surely a silver lining to the economic storm clouds we face. I filled up my car today for $50, the… Continue Reading
Today, the Connecticut Supreme Court interpreted its Constitution to require same-sex marriage. It is now the third state to do so, joining Massachusetts and California. Watch carefully as Connecticut’s crime rate remains functionally the same into the foreseeable future, Connecticut’s… Continue Reading
I was quite astonished a while back to find someone who actually thought that taking the words “bride” and “groom” off a marriage license application meant that there was no long any such thing as marriage in California. (What about… Continue Reading
Does the National Day of Prayer violate the Establishment Clause? I.Legal Framing Of Question This is the basic, straight-ahead question asked bya lawsuit filed Friday by the Freedom From Religion Foundation. Although the complaint details various permutations of the theory,… Continue Reading
…And I don’t expect her to be a lawyer. But the legal intertubes are still buzzing about Palin trying to B.S. her way through a Katie Couric question about Supreme Court cases other than Roe v. Wade with which she… Continue Reading
While we were in Wisconsin, my mother-in-law expressed a very common resentment of people who commit crimes, go to prison, and then get free medical care there. If you think about it, there isn’t any choice about giving medical care… Continue Reading
Why did it fail? It didn’t fail because Nancy Pelosi gave a mean speech attacking the Bush Administration. It didn’t fail because Republicans are disloyal to their President or suffer from irrational fears of creeping socialism. It didn’t fail because… Continue Reading
Continuing in a vein from the past post, here’s a reminder to all my American bloggers that they should cherish and be thankful for their freedoms. In Italy, it is a crime to mock the Pope. After warming up with… Continue Reading