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Welcome back, fellas. I missed you all very, very much. Toronto Maple Leafs Nathan Perrott (R) punches Ottawa Senators Brian McGrattan during a second period fight in National Hockey League pre-season action in Ottawa September 25, 2005. REUTERS/Chris Wattie...

By nominating Harriet Miers, President Bush has opened up a rift between two essential parts of his political base: the religious right, and conservatives. I suspect that the President's trust in Ms. Miers is probably grounded mostly in two facts:...

For no particular reason, and in no particular order, here are some snippets of my own private dementia. I really dislike years that end in odd numbers. Writing an odd number on the end always bugs me. This year, 2005,...

Tim Blair wasn't on Hoist the Black Flag today, which is understandable when you think about the 14-hour time difference. Ace is talking about a taped interview in the future, and that would be nice....

Happy St. Francis Day. This graduate of St. Francis of Assisi Elementary School has fond memories of October 4, as students we'd spend that day doing nothing but playing games. One thing we'd do is attach a note to a...

Conservatives Confront Bush Aides

Sort of looks like the FDR Republican President and his Kool-aid vendors still have a lot of work to do to get the GOP base on board - assuming that they have any concern about even bothering to do so at this point.

The conservative uprising against President Bush escalated yesterday as Republican activists angry over his nomination of White House counsel Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court confronted the president's envoys during a pair of tense closed-door meetings. A day after Bush publicly beseeched skeptical supporters to trust his judgment on Miers, a succession of prominent conservative leaders told his representatives that they did not. Over the course of several hours of sometimes testy exchanges, the dissenters complained that Miers was an unknown quantity with a thin résumé and that her selection -- Bush called her "the best person I could find" -- was a betrayal of years of struggle to move the court to the right.

Although the Chief is still trying to be optimistic about the appointment, none of this exactly gives a warm glow. All there is is a (hopefully not forlorn) hope that Ms. Miers ultimately proves to be a sound constitutional originalist. Unfortunately, all there is is that hope...but not much substance at this point.

Some folks seem to have enjoyed this post from yesterday, so I might do more of that sort of thing in the future. Many thanks to Todd Epp for what he had to say about it. (And I'll also take...

The Islamofascists have murdered at least 26 in Bali. Naturally, as these "freedom fighters" prefer, they were mostly innocent tourists going about their business. Click over to Tim Blair's and scroll down for all of the latest news....

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