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Via Insty, we see that the Cato Institute has identified a potential $62 billion worth of pork that could be cut to help refinance Katrina reconstruction. Wouldn't it be fantastic to do a smash-up job of rebuilding the Gulf as...

Ann Althouse has a funny and informative review of yesterday's Roberts hearings. Hat tip to Instapundit. Like him, I think this line is the funniest and pretty much sums up the left's jurisprudence: Or is one of Congress's enumerated powers...

-----Original Message-----From: Schaff, JonSent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 9:54 PMTo: Blanchard, Kenneth.Subject: A Very Important Question This came up in Presidency class. If you become a vampire or a zombie, do you have to pay the inheritance tax? It is...

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...

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...

Bush signs BRAC plan

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.

ESPN has a marvelous story about former Steeler wide receiver Lynn Swan's potential run for governor of Pennsylvania as a Republican....

Denns Prager writes a column that really hits the feminist movemetn between the eyeballs. Here is the introduction:As a result of the repudiation of Judeo-Christian values, we are witnessing the ascendance of the feminine in Western society. There are two...

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