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A legal question about vampires and zombies-----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...Dred Roberts The Pirate II
In spite of the intentional lack of content in Judge Roberts's confirmation hearings, he did provide a clear answer to the most fundamental question about his judicial philosophy. Liberals want a justice who cares. Conservatives want a justice who is...Batter Up!
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...The New Cronyism (Or Not): Shaw Group Headed By Chairman of Louisiana Democratic Party
Oh, that liberal media. You'd think that the oh-so-earnest Reuters could do a bit better than this: At least two major corporate clients of lobbyist Joe Allbaugh, President Bush's former campaign manager and a former head of the Federal Emergency...Constitution Day
RedState put it best: Today is Constitution Day, when we celebrate the 218th anniversary of that wonderful and near-perfect document. The law that created Constitution Day requires all schools that receive federal funds -- and all agencies in the Executive...Katrina Victims
These people interviewed by ABC at the Astrodome must not have gotten the memo: ABC News producers probably didn't hear what they expected when they sent Dean Reynolds to the Houston Astrodome's parking lot to get reaction to President Bush's...Gorgeous George vs. Hitch
Since I have absolutely nothing better to do (saddlebronc riding, jumping jacks are out of the question) on Saturday, I'm planning on watching C-SPAN's broadcast of the Hitchens-Galloway "debate." If you want a text-only run-down before catching Hitch and Galloway...Oliphant's slander
Tom Oliphant writes in the Boston Globe:Roberts will have no trouble passing the litmus test. But his passing of it will mask the long record of his fealty to the true purpose of conservatism in civil rights for well over...
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