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In coordination with Progress for America, several states have launched websites in support of Harriet Miers. Nebraska is one of them: NEforJusticeMiers.com. The ad-hoc coalition is chaired by Steve Grasz, former Chief Deputy Attorney General for Nebraska....

Whatever one thinks of Tom Delay, it becomes increasingly clear that the charges against him are bogus and the product of a rogue prosecutor. It appears even a grand jury in Texas thinks so. Powerline has the goods....

First, let me acknowledge that Evelyn Waugh died 39 years ago. Second, if you are wondering who Evelyn (pronounced eve-lin) Waugh is, he, yes he, is perhaps the finest English novelist of the 20th Century. As National Review celebrates its...

What a beautiful day to not have to get up and go to work. It's still in the low to mid-40s, and it's still drizzling. In fact, I set my alarm clock for 6:30 this morning just so I could...

A legal colleague writes on Harriet Miers

An interesting posting from Austin Bay - a very positive missive from a Dallas attorney who knows / has workd with Ms Miers. A bit more information as grist for the mill.

He essentially says about the same thing that the Pres. did about her - again based on personal experience. It's still anecdotal, but there is always the factor of "By the words of two or three witnesses shall all things be established."

For what it's worth...

Why Intelligent Design Is Going to Win

It doesn't matter if you like it or not. It doesn't matter if you think it's true or not. Intelligent Design theory is destined to supplant Darwinism as the primary scientific explanation for the origin of human life. ID will be taught in public schools as a matter of course. It will happen in our lifetime. It's happening right now, actually.

First, the Chief will stipulate, that based on observation of the doings of the denizens of Washington, D.C. the prospect for intelligent design certainly seems doubtful. However...in other terms there is merit in the proposition.

This posting presents a proposition, and supporting discussion that the concept of intelligent design (ID) will ultimately gain ascendency, for a number of clearly stated reasons:

1) ID will win because it's a religion-friendly, conservative-friendly, red-state kind of theory, and no one will lose money betting on the success of red-state theories in the next fifty to one hundred years.

2) ID will win because the pro-Darwin crowd is acting like a bunch of losers.

3) ID will win because it can be reconciled with any advance that takes place in biology, whereas Darwinism cannot yield even an inch of ground to ID.

4) ID will win because it can piggyback on the growth of information theory, which will attract the best minds in the world over the next fifty years.

5) ID will win because ID assumes that man will find design in life -- and, as the mind of man is hard-wired to detect design, man will likely find what he seeks.

Check out the whole article for the supporting discussion. The Chief particularly likes what's said in reference to the first of the above points:

I've said it before and I'll say it again: families that reproduce people tend to reproduce ideas, as well. The most vocal non-scientist proponents of ID are those delightfully fertile Catholics, Evangelicals, and similarly right-leaning middle-class college-educated folk -- the kind whose children will inherit the country. Eventually, the social right will have the sheer manpower to teach ID wherever they please.

Back in undergrad days, the Chief encountered more-or-less female students of the feminazi persuasion who proclaimed their intention to NEVER have children. As a student of biology, I stated the biological significance of that option: "Oh, you have decided then that you are biologically unfit! Biological fitness is defined as success in passing genes on to the succeeding generation." The reaction to this...as the saying goes...priceless!

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...

Jason's post below on the new Hildebrand venture along with this previous nugget about Tim Johnsons' and John Thune's defense of agricultural spending shows just how unserious Americans are about their government. No one seriously suggests cutting entitlement spending, but...

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