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Goodbye, you crooked old scoundrel. A Texas grand jury on Wednesday charged Rep. Tom DeLay and two political associates with conspiracy in a campaign finance scheme, an indictment that likely will force him to step down as House majority leader....

HALF OF U.S. SEES ?JUDICIAL ACTIVISM CRISIS?

As the season here on the northern plains begins to turn, the ABA notes another chilling wind blowing down their neck - sheeple seem to be waking up to the dire trends towards judicial tyrrany. Ooops. The jig is up!

More than half of Americans are angry and disappointed with the nation?s judiciary, a new survey done for the ABA Journal eReport shows.

A majority of the survey respondents agreed with statements that "judicial activism" has reached the crisis stage, and that judges who ignore voters? values should be impeached. Nearly half agreed with a congressman who said judges are "arrogant, out-of-control and unaccountable."

Gosh, why would people begin to think like that? Hmmmmm. Oh, yeah - because judges HAVE demonstrated that they ARE "arrogant, out-of-control, and unaccountable."

The survey results surprised some legal experts with the extent of dissatisfaction shown toward the judiciary. "These are surprisingly large numbers," says Mark V. Tushnet, a constitutional law professor at Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C. "These results are simply scary," adds Charles G. Geyh, a constitutional law professor at Indiana University School of Law in Bloomington.

"Scary"? Scary to the legalistic aristocrats who see that they are loosing their aegis of untouchable isolation from their imagined inferiors. The effects of their ex cathedra edicts, issued with contempt for the proposition the in the American republic soveriegnty ultimatey resides with the people are coming home to roost.

It seems that people actually expect judges to do their job, and judge according to the law and the constitution, and not act as a superior legalistic priesthood issueing commandments according to their own views, whether we agree or not.

Fifty-six percent of the respondents strongly or somewhat agreed with the opinions expressed in each of two survey statements:

* A U.S. congressman has said, "Judicial activism ? seems to have reached a crisis. Judges routinely overrule the will of the people, invent new rights and ignore traditional morality." (Twenty-nine percent strongly agreed and 27 percent somewhat agreed.)

* A state governor has said that court opinions should be in line with voters? values, and judges who repeatedly ignore those values should be impeached. (Twenty-eight percent strongly agreed and 28 percent somewhat agreed.)

Forty-six percent strongly or somewhat agreed with the opinion expressed in a third statement:

* A U.S. congressman has called judges arrogant, out-of-control and unaccountable. (Twenty-one percent strongly agreed and 25 percent somewhat agreed.)

Ooops. The jig is up!

It's been a crazy week if you've devoted any time to trying to monitor the moonbats. I myself have had to bite my tongue more than once when posting on some of the "anti-war" demonstrations over the weekend. But it...

Professor Schaff below gives a very serious reason why Chad's Chicken Hawk argument is dreadful. It is, among, other things, a classical fallacy, referred to as an ad hominem argument. In that form, you argue that X must be wrong...

It turns out many of the horror stories coming out of New Orleans in the wake of Katrina were, well, false. It seems the claims of social breakdown were highly exaggerated. I wait patiently for the media to correct itself....

Switch of Radio Stations Signals Cards' Latest Break From Old St. Louis

The Chief grew up in St. Louis, and remembers laying in bed as a kid on hot muggy summer nights watching the glowing tubes of an old AM radio while listening to the Cardinals play on KMOX radio. Later on, while in college and working nights there were even more hours listening. Travel away from St. Louis, and even moving to South Dakota, KMOX and the Cardinals were an electromagnetic beacon carrying an emotional constant connection to the city on the river.

So now comes the word that the Cards are to bail out from the clear channel KMOX and go to a much smaller station. So much for listening to the games on the radio at night from the expatriate location up here on the northern plains.

This story in the WaPo does a truly excellent job of explaining the whole situation of the shift, and the response of St. Louis and the Cardinal fans to the changes. I suppose there is commercial wisdom, or at least advantage at work here, but it still leaves a hollow spot knowing that a life-long relationship is soon to become so much dust in the wind. Sic transit gloria mundi.

?Palestinians? embracing hip-hop to push ?perspective of the victims?

At first I thought that this was something in the spirit of The Onion or Scrappleface, but alas, it's all too real.

Talk about a marriage made in hell - this has to be it!

I have posted a comment on Chad's site requesting a retraction. Here is the note.Chad: Thank you for saying that I'm the sane one around here. You should see the other inmates. As for your passionate note: 1) As I...

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