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Tim Blair will be on Hoist the Black Flag tomorrow. That ought to be good. Replays throughout the day if you're like me and can't listen at work....

Professor Bainbridge:Daschle on SOX: Then and Now On Friday, June 28, 2002, as reported in 148 Cong Rec S 6297, then-Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle stated: ... the growing list of corporations under question makes clear that we aren't just...

The moonbats who wanted to build an International "Freedom" Center at Ground Zero didn't care much for their options after Governor Pataki told them to take a hike yesterday. So, doggone it, they're just not going to build anywhere at...

Rush Limbaugh is not happy with Meirs: Now the Democrats are saying some favorable things about Harriet Miers right now led by Dingy Harry, the Senate leader. He likes her very much. It's almost like he'd like to marry her,...

No thanks to 20+ Democrats who voted against one of the most qualified people (see record below) ever to sit on the Supreme Court, the Republican Senate approved Judge Roberts today. Remember that judges like Roberts would be filibustered if...

A bipartisan fundraiser for Ben Nelson: Sen. Ben Nelson garnered about $100,000 for his re-election campaign Monday at a reception arranged by a bipartisan trio of heavy-hitters in the Omaha corporate community. The breakfast gathering was hosted by Warren Buffett,...

Remember this: anyone who tells you that free speech is alive and well on college campuses is a flat out liar. The First Amendment? Hell, they won't even let anyone tell the truth....

A Lessons from Henry II

One of the arguments being bruited about, even by the President in this mornings presser, in defense of the Mier appointment is that in spite of a relatively lack of documentation to establish the views of the nominee, this is not anything to be concerned about, since the President has a long standing personal knowledge of her, and based on this, has full confidence that she will make decisions based on an originalist judicial attitude.

It was similar personal knowledge and assurance that let Henry II to appoint Thomas a Beckett, his long-time friend, confidante, and chancellor as Archbishop of Canterbury, in an effort to subject the rulings of the ecclesiatical court system to the monarch. Said attempt failed, when Beckett discovered and acted on a new-found spirit of independence once he was esconced in his new office.

The rest, as they say, is history, which led eventually to Beckett's murder, and Henry on his knees before the Pope to gain absolution.

Bush had better hope, that HIS judgement of his personal attorney is more accurate than Henry's was of his chancellor, or it could well be the death knell of constitutional government in the United States.

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