Politics: July 2005
Classic Dan Burton
Filed by Marla R. Stevens | July 29, 2005 | 2:03 AM |Dan, sex, and germs...it doesn't get much better than this. Check out the entry on Dump Michele Bachmann blog: More Wacko Out of State Bachmann Contributors....Read More
PETA in the Indy Star
Filed by Bil Browning | July 27, 2005 | 6:04 PM |People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has a story in today's Indy Star. They've asked the owners of a Gary shopping center to cancel a circus scheduled for next weekend. While I'm sure all my gentle readers...Read More
Roberts and the Federalist Society Revisited
Filed by Marla R. Stevens | July 25, 2005 | 3:34 PM |It seems that the Washington Post article Chris gave us with that fishy quote where the administration source says Roberts "has no recollection" regarding the question of his Federalist Society membership was not the end of the story. Today...Read More
Check this out
Filed by Ed Team | July 24, 2005 | 7:52 PM |Go to http://www.obleek.com/iraq/index.html and check out the casualties in Iraq since March 20, 2003, when the war was "over." Thanks, George....Read More
Roberts
Filed by Bil Browning | July 22, 2005 | 4:18 PM |I well remember in 1990 or so reading sophisticated and accurate analysis in the New York Times and Foreign Affairs Quarterly about events transpiring in the Soviet Union, especially the coup against Gorbachev. Being an intelligence officer with the...Read More
So many gerbils, so little ...
Filed by Marla R. Stevens | July 22, 2005 | 2:38 PM |... or was that tribbles? No, they were not gay nor deposited in urban legend fashion and John Kerry did not jump in to save them. (Oops, that was hamster, not gerbil -- but close...) Read more......Read More
Roberts not a member of the Federalist Society
Filed by Ed Team | July 22, 2005 | 11:48 AM |Apparently, Roberts was never a member of the Federalist Society. More info here...Read More
Tribe Isn't Joining the Herd
Filed by Ed Team | July 21, 2005 | 5:05 PM |Laurence Tribe was a leading figure in the fight to defeat the nomination of Robert Bork. He's among the most respected liberal legal minds in the country. Here's what he told the New York Times about John Roberts: "He's...Read More
Why Roberts' Federalist Society Membership is a Concern
Filed by Marla R. Stevens | July 19, 2005 | 10:55 PM |As I pointed out earlier, Judge John G. Roberts, Jr. is a leading member of the Federalist Society, a group dedicated to the radical remaking of the law and legal profession. Here's an excerpt from a PFAW look at...Read More
And that's just the tip of the iceberg...
Filed by Marla R. Stevens | July 19, 2005 | 9:57 PM |Environmental Protections: As a judge, Roberts suggested in a dissent that the Endangered Species Act was unconstitutional as applied to a California development case. Veteran Protections: Roberts argued American POWs tortured in Iraq during the Gulf War should not...Read More
Alliance For Justice Nails It
Filed by Marla R. Stevens | July 19, 2005 | 9:26 PM |The Alliance for Justice not only highlights Judge John G. Roberts, Jr.'s troubling ideological history but deconstructs the little myth that he's a relative unknown to those who arranged for his nomination, pointing out that the extremists on the...Read More
A smart, polite, nice guy asshole is still an asshole
Filed by Marla R. Stevens | July 19, 2005 | 8:13 PM |The early info is in and, while he's smart as a whip and writes and argues well, some seem to think he's a stand-up guy, and he doesn't seem to beat dogs in excess, Judge John G. Roberts, Jr....Read More
Regarding John G. Roberts for the Supreme Court
Filed by Ed Team | July 19, 2005 | 7:00 PM |The news is out: President Bush is said to be nominating John G. Roberts for the U.S. Supreme Court. We don't know much about him on the topic of glbt civil rights, but there may be reason for some...Read More
"If that is the law, then the law is a ass!"
Filed by Ed Team | July 19, 2005 | 9:29 AM |You can argue the constitutionality of the USA Patriot Act. [BTW, did you know that it is actually entitled: "Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism"? Them Warshington boys is so clever!]...Read More
It's about liberty, stupid!
Filed by Ed Team | July 14, 2005 | 10:07 AM |At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities...If hostile interests have wrought much injury, false ideas have wrought still more; and [true liberty's] advance is recorded in the increase...Read More
A common link
Filed by Bil Browning | July 13, 2005 | 5:01 PM |What is the common link between all atrocities in our society's past? Shameful chapters of history, such as the African slave trade, the massacre and displacement of Native Americans, the oppression of women, and forced child labor, were the...Read More
It's All About the Bang
Filed by Bil Browning | July 10, 2005 | 6:09 PM |Now, this is news. I mean, people died and everything, but this - this - is good old fashioned hard news. London's thriving lesbian and gay scene will open its doors Friday night, in a show of defiance against...Read More
Top 10 Patriotic Things Encountered Over the 4th of July Weekend
Filed by Ed Team | July 04, 2005 | 6:12 PM |10. A small, but respectable professional fireworks display over the manmade lake at Jim Edgar Panther Creek - State Fish & Wildlife Area (see map) near my hometown. When I was growing up, all of these grounds were not...Read More
CIA Leak is Karl Rove
Filed by Bil Browning | July 03, 2005 | 11:33 AM |Lawrence O'Donnell is blogging that the leak of CIA operative Valerie Plue's identity was Karl Rove. Newsweek is also reporting that Rove was interviewed by Matthew Cooper for Time magazine and is the anonymous source that Cooper won't reveal....Read More
Shooting fish in a barrel
Filed by Bil Browning | July 01, 2005 | 1:24 PM |If you know me at all, you know that I'm a big believer in animal rights. You'd also know that I'm not a gun person. I know, I know - guns don't kill people, people do. But a lot...Read More
