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Photoshop the Islamic Way!CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations) wound up with a photo on their front page the other day featuring a couple of women without the hijab. Was this a problem? Heck, no; they just Photoshopped each of the women to get...Thune Responds to the Pledge Decision
The Washington Times:This is yet another example of an irresponsible decision by a liberal activist judge unable to separate personal politics from public service, said Sen. John Thune, South Dakota Republican. As we work to fill two vacancies in the...Ellsworth
Gannett/USA Today, owner of the Argus Leader and a Daschle supporter, is cheering for the demise of Ellsworth:By the end of next week, President Bush has to decide what to do with a list of military base closings and realignments...Roberts v. Schumer
This is priceless. From yesterday's Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing.SCHUMER: Let me just say, sir, in all due respect -- and I respect your intelligence and your career and your family -- this process is getting a little more absurd the...The Strange Saga of Finnis D. Shelnutt
Jesus, now this has to be seen to be believed: Finnis Shelnutt, real estate developer, stock broker, bar owner, former brother-in-law of Webb Hubbell and Gennifer Flowers' current husband. Now he's livin' in N.O. and crazy talkin'. [Found it at...Surgery Noted
Regular readers of this space will note that I mentioned last week, after returning from my Labor Day weekend, that I was feeling a bit under the weather. The week passed with little improvement, and over the weekend I really...Ellaworth A.F.B. Position Solidified
Batter Up!WIth Presidential approval of the BRAC report, it's all over but the shouting & Ellsworth survived the process.
President Bush on Thursday endorsed a plan for closing 22 major military bases and reconfiguring 33 others, leaving their fate to Congress.Bush had until Sept. 23 to either accept the entire report from an independent commission and send it to Congress, or return it to the commission for further work. The report will become final in 45 days unless Congress acts to reject it in full. In previous rounds, lawmakers never have rejected reports, meaning communities probably have little hope of a reprieve for their bases.Likewise, bases left off the BRAC closure list, have little to fear at this point. Aside from the economics of the situation, the Chief believes that the strategic and military factors were the only ones that should have been significant in the final decisions. In the cases of Ellsworth, and the Naval bases in Maine and Connecticut at least, the Chief had NO doubt that this was the case, as did the commissioners, resulting in the positive outcome for South Dakota.
John Roberts made an analogy between Judges and Umpires that I have frequently used in my constitutional law class to explain the difference between judicial activism and judicial restraint. Jim Lindgren at the Volokh Conspiracy has this shrewd comment:Roberts' comparison...
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