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Phillip Adams wonders in print why more US President's aren't assassinated, given that the "majority" of Americans are crazy and own a lot of guns. This may be the stupidest thing ever put into writing and, given the source, that's...

Petition for the Withdrawal of the Nomination of Harriet Miers to the U.S. Supreme Court

David Frum at National Review Online has a petition up calling for the withdrawel of Harriet Miers' nomination for SCOTUS:

WE ARE REPUBLICANS AND CONSERVATIVES who supported the election of George W. Bush in 2000 and 2004. Today, we respectfully urge that the nomination of Harriet Miers to the United States Supreme Court be withdrawn.

The next justice of the Supreme Court should be a person of clear, consistent, and unashamed conservative judicial philosophy.

The next justice should be a person of unquestioned personal and political independence.

The next justice should be someone who has demonstrated a deep engagement in the constitutional issues that regularly come before the Supreme Court ? and an appreciation of the originalist perspective on those issues.

The next justice should be a person of the highest standard of intellectual and legal excellence.

For all Harriet Miers? many fine qualities and genuine achievements, we the undersigned believe that she is not that person. An attempt to push her nomination through the Senate will only split the Republican party, damage the Bush presidency, and cast doubts upon the Court itself.

Sometimes Americans elect Republican presidents, sometimes we elect Democratic presidents. Whatever the differences between the parties, surely we can at least agree on this: Each party owes America its best. There is a wide range of truly outstanding legal talents who share the president?s judicial philosophy. We believe that on second thought President Bush can do better ? for conservatism, for the Supreme Court, for America.

If you are also underwhelmed by this appointment, go take a look at it and sign in to make your feelings known. It couldn't hurt to at least reinforce the message to the Pres. and his staffers.

Has to go to Eric: "You can?t spell 'controversial' without R-O-V-E". I'll admit that I haven't been following the whole Rove/Plame fiasco very closely, mostly because there are so many intricacies and twists that I can barely keep the main...

You just generally expect athletes to sport horrible hair. In fact, I really don't even think about it. But if anyone can explain to me just what in the hell Tiger Woods is doing, please do....

Jesus, these guys just don't want to win tonight. Of course, even though Mussina was terrible (Johnson just came in), the Angels have certainly capitalized on a bunch of fortunate events. I things don't shape up offensively, the Yankees will...

I've been reading Edward Luttwak since Grad School. He is a very sharp analyst of power politics, but a bit uneven. He wrote the best book on strategy I have ever read (The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire), but...

Quentin Riggins runs us through some examples of letters to the Sioux Falls Argus Leader condemning Rep. Stephanie Herseth, and the resulting cries from South Dakota Democrats that these letters were written by "someone" in the Republican Party. Because we...

South Dakota Magazine:Also at the conference, historian/journalist Dale Lewis told me how to find the spot were Sitting Bull was killed ? something I?ve been meaning to do. I?d heard it was marked with a copper plate sometime after his...

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