JULY 1–Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman appointed to the Supreme Court, announced her retirement today.
Here’s her letter to the president
Bush call for dignified process (dignified and Senate Democrats don’t often go together)
SCOTUS blog is the place to go for updates. The candidates are here.
On a scale of 1-10 for ugliness in the confirmation process, what do you think? I say it’s Spinal Tap all the way….to ELEVEN
Pundit Review Radio
This week’s guest: Patterico’s Pontifications
Sunday, 9pm EST, streamed live at WRKO
This weekend on Pundit Review Radio we will be taking a look at the insurgency threatening our ability to win in Iraq. Not Zarqawi’s insurgency, but Ted Kennedy’s.
“Iraq is an intractable quagmire”
–Ted Kennedy“You have an insurgency with no vision, no base, limited popular support, an elected government, committed Iraqis to the democratic process, and you have Iraqi security forces that are fighting and dying for their country every day. Senator, that is not a quagmire.”
–General George Casey, top commander in Iraq
The Danger of the Kennedy Quagmire
He’s hurting U.S. resolve by pushing the Vietnam button
By David Gerlenter
Ted Kennedy’s comments are too important to ignore. The Bush administration must explain to the nation that quagmires are created by politicians and pundits, not soldiers. It has yet to confront head-on the potentially deadly resonance between the public’s natural unease with the news from Baghdad and statements like Sen. Kennedy’s.We must also confront our memories of Vietnam. If we don’t, they will drive us crazy â?? or maybe they already have. Freud invented psychoanalysis to help hysterical and otherwise loony patients confront painful memories, to find truths that would set them free.America needs emergency psychoanalysis right now, before statements like Ted Kennedy’s start destroying our will to do what is good and what is right.
Business Week has a great list of financial and economic related blogs for you to check out. For other resources, check out our favorites linked on the right.
You can’t say we haven’t been warned,
This appears to be the Pundit Review guysâ?? first significant lapse in judgment.
-Patterico
When: Sunday 9pm est
Where: Stream the show live at WRKO and reach us toll free at 877-469-4322
Why: Because his blog, Patterico’s Pontifications is terrific. He smartly covers issues we care about, like media bias, legal issues, and general national political issues. Check out the beating he gives the LA Times, for starters.
Via PoliPundit,
While being interviewed by a local talk radio station about that whole
Guantanamo Bay meme (and de facto lefty fund raising device), spaced-out San
Francisco Bay Area Demo-Congresswoman, Ellen Tauscher, had this to say:You know, look, I didnâ??t go to law school but I have watched Law &
Order for ten years, and I do believe we have the rule of law that we are not
only, uh, adhering to in the United States as a very strong principle, but weâ??re
also trying to, by the way, interject it around the world. And we need to stand
for it. And not only because itâ??s morally right but because we have our own
people at risk if they were captured â?¦.
If you don’t believe that Congresswoman Tauscher really said something so stupid, listen for yourself.
As PoliPundit said,
And people wonder why the Democrat Party has lost nearly 70 net U.S. House seats
over a 15-year period, despite the unions, the urban corpse bloc, and the FDR bloc, eh?
LaShawn Barber is our guest on Pundit Review Radio this Sunday evening at 9pm est.
“Her independence of thought and self-evident sense of mission immediately made her a favorite.”
– The American Thinker“We’ve become big fans of blogger La Shawn Barber…”
— Power Line“She’s a rising star of the blogosphere…”
– Hugh Hewitt“One of my favorite bloggers in the universe…”
– David Limbaugh
You can stream the show live at WRKO and call us toll free at 877.469.4322
Blogs can be a great resource to learn about current events. For example, the recent Supreme Court decision on property rights. For those who are not constitutional scholars (hello!), there are a number of resources to hear arguements on both sides of the issue. If the few paragraphs from AP in your local paper has you feeling a little less than fully informed, check out these great blogs that bring a fresh perspective to constitutional and legal issues,
Volokh Conspiracy
A collaborative weblog providing analysis of developments in the US legal system and courts, as well as of recent legal news and events.
SCOTUSblog
Another collaborative blog that provides opinions and analysis on both sides of the issue. They are a sister site to The Supreme Court Nomination Blog.
Hugh Hewitt
Uber blogger, author of the best selling book blog, and a Professor of Law at Chapman University Law School, where he teaches Constitutional Law
Glenn Reynolds
Better known as Instapundit, he is a libertarian leaning constitutional law professor at Univ. of Tennessee
Professor Bainbridge
Stephen Bainbridge is a professor of law at UCLA, where he currently teaches Business Associations, Unincorporated Business Associations, and Advanced Corporation Law. He also has a cool wine blog.
Bill Hobbs
A blogger who has interviewed politicians about the property rights case. He has posted their reaction to the decision on his blog.
Arguing with Signposts
A blog that has compiled a huge round-up of blogger reaction to the decision