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I had some original thoughts on President Bush's nominee to the Supreme Court, Harriet Miers, but now that I have time to blog on them I see all my thoughts have been taken by other bloggers. Since I can't come...

The Hill is reporting on a possible challenger to West Virginia Senator Robert Byrd and the race's relationship to the Daschle/Thune race:While Rep. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) keeps political observers guessing about whether she will challenge Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.)...

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.

This has been sitting on my desk for a few days now, buried under my books. Excerpt from the New York Times:IF new construction is the cardinal symptom of municipal economic health, Omaha has to be in the pink of...

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...

Excerpts from today's Argus Leader:Air Force officials are looking at Ellsworth Air Force Base as a possible location for a military financial-services operation that could mean the addition of more than 700 jobs, Rep. Stephanie Herseth said. Although no decisions...

From WorldNetDaily: For the moment, George Bush can stop worrying about where Harriet Miers stands on abortion. The larger question is soon about to be an even messier one: How exactly does Ms. Miers fit into the never-ending George Bush...

How's that for an interesting blog heading. For those who can't get enough of Harriet Miers (and who can't) here is a piece by RJ Pestrito that is tough on Miers and Bush, and here is Michael Ledeen telling us...

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