Heritage "Over the past 10 years, special interests have engaged in a highly coordinated, well-funded campaign to fundamentally alter the composition of America’s state courts. The campaign’s goal: to exclude conservative, rule-of-law judges from the bench. This campaign has been bankrolled by George Soros, a hedge fund operator with a net worth of $13 billion, according to the Forbes 400 list of the world’s richest people."
A Defense of the Elected Judiciary "...Rather than removing politics from the judicial selection process, merit selection merely moves the politics behind closed doors and results in judges who reflect the political views of the interest groups in charge of their selection.
"The interest groups that support merit selection are predominantly liberal-leaning lawyers associations."...
Friday, September 10, 2010
THE KOOK PASTOR IS PLAYING THE MEDIA LIKE A BADLY TUNED BANJO
Neal Boortz "Let's see .. where are we now? Yesterday the crackpot "pastor" from Gainesville, Florida was telling the media that the Quran burning was off; part of a deal with the NYC Imam to move the victory mosque. This morning we learn that the really is no such deal and the Quran book burning may be on again. So the media is once again rushing to Gainesville to cover this oh-so-important story, and the kook gets another 15 minutes of fame. Why do we keep calling this look a "pastor?" He is about as much a Christian as I am a fashion style-setter. "
Nine Years Since 9/11
Cliff May "It should go without saying but probably does not: Most of the world’s Muslims are not participating in this struggle, are not eager for bloodshed, and do not want to live under clerical dictatorships. But if, as has been conservatively estimated, only seven percent of the world’s Muslims support Jihadism and/or Islamism, that’s more than 80 million people – a formidable force backed by enormous Middle Eastern oil wealth. By contrast, Islamic reformers and peacemakers are isolated, targeted and without substantial resources."
The Eternal Flame of Muslim Outrage "Shhhhhhh, we're told. Don't protest the Ground Zero mosque. Don't burn a Koran. It'll imperil the troops. It'll inflame tensions. The "Muslim world" will "explode" if it does not get its way, warns sharia-peddling imam Feisal Abdul Rauf. Pardon my national security-threatening impudence, but when is the "Muslim world" not ready to "explode"?
"At the risk of provoking the ever-volatile Religion of Perpetual Outrage, let us count the little-noticed and forgotten ways."
ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF 9/11 "Sure, the attacks were carried out by small groups of radicals .. but the celebration of that attack was widespread in Islamic countries. The perpetrators were small in number, the celebrants were vast.
"Today, on the eve of the 9th anniversary, we're fighting a battle over whether or not Islamists should be allowed to construct a victory mosque at the site of their achievement. Again .. yes. It is a victory mosque. Only on Fox News Channel and in Talk radio (plus a few columns here and there) will you hear or read about the centuries-old Islamic custom of building a mosque at the site of great Islamic victories."
The Eternal Flame of Muslim Outrage "Shhhhhhh, we're told. Don't protest the Ground Zero mosque. Don't burn a Koran. It'll imperil the troops. It'll inflame tensions. The "Muslim world" will "explode" if it does not get its way, warns sharia-peddling imam Feisal Abdul Rauf. Pardon my national security-threatening impudence, but when is the "Muslim world" not ready to "explode"?
"At the risk of provoking the ever-volatile Religion of Perpetual Outrage, let us count the little-noticed and forgotten ways."
ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF 9/11 "Sure, the attacks were carried out by small groups of radicals .. but the celebration of that attack was widespread in Islamic countries. The perpetrators were small in number, the celebrants were vast.
"Today, on the eve of the 9th anniversary, we're fighting a battle over whether or not Islamists should be allowed to construct a victory mosque at the site of their achievement. Again .. yes. It is a victory mosque. Only on Fox News Channel and in Talk radio (plus a few columns here and there) will you hear or read about the centuries-old Islamic custom of building a mosque at the site of great Islamic victories."
The Constitution Trumps Islamic Law
http://townhall.com/cartoons/cartoonist/SteveKelley/2010/09/1
The lights are going out in America
Ethel C. Fenig "Meanwhile, while Obama was touting his policies that will bring jobs, jobs and more jobs, especially green ones, over the border in Virginia, the lights were going out. Literally. Because of green jobs.
"Peter Whoriskey of the Washington Post reports on the closure of the last GE factory in the country manufacturing incandescent bulbs throwing 200 middle aged, middle class people out of work. Their chances of finding new jobs are dim."
DARKER SIDE OF INNOVATION: GE closing its last incandescent bulb factory in the U.S. "What made the plant vulnerable is, in part, a 2007 energy conservation measure passed by Congress that set standards essentially banning ordinary incandescents by 2014. The law will force millions of American households to switch to more efficient bulbs.
"The resulting savings in energy and greenhouse-gas emissions are expected to be immense. But the move also had unintended consequences.
"Rather than setting off a boom in the U.S. manufacture of replacement lights, the leading replacement lights are compact fluorescents, or CFLs, which are made almost entirely overseas, mostly in China."
"Peter Whoriskey of the Washington Post reports on the closure of the last GE factory in the country manufacturing incandescent bulbs throwing 200 middle aged, middle class people out of work. Their chances of finding new jobs are dim."
DARKER SIDE OF INNOVATION: GE closing its last incandescent bulb factory in the U.S. "What made the plant vulnerable is, in part, a 2007 energy conservation measure passed by Congress that set standards essentially banning ordinary incandescents by 2014. The law will force millions of American households to switch to more efficient bulbs.
"The resulting savings in energy and greenhouse-gas emissions are expected to be immense. But the move also had unintended consequences.
"Rather than setting off a boom in the U.S. manufacture of replacement lights, the leading replacement lights are compact fluorescents, or CFLs, which are made almost entirely overseas, mostly in China."
Castro's Cathartic Conversation
Jeannie DeAngelis "...Fidel came clean with American journalist Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic magazine.
"Goldberg asked the Cuban revolutionist if “Cuba’s economic system was worth exporting to other countries?” Over a casual lunch, Fidel nonchalantly replied in the following way: “The Cuban model doesn't even work for us anymore.""
"Goldberg asked the Cuban revolutionist if “Cuba’s economic system was worth exporting to other countries?” Over a casual lunch, Fidel nonchalantly replied in the following way: “The Cuban model doesn't even work for us anymore.""
Consequence of contempt for American law
Ralph Alter "Like other Sanctuary Cities in the United States (see the remarkably long and detailed list here), Los Angeles offers an open invitation to illegals to settle in their city. Never mind that no real thought was ever given as to whether the native locals were willing or able to support a raft of semi-skilled aliens with enormous social service needs. Nor was consideration given as to what the community might do once the illegal population reached critical mass, as it clearly has done in Los Angeles."
Thursday, September 9, 2010
NBC’s ObamaVision: ‘Law and Order’ — ‘This Is Why We Need Health-Care Reform’
Our Waning Obama Worship
Victor Davis Hanson "But now a grouchy elite and a petulant president see that they were sorely mistaken about us, and Mr. Obama’s election was more flukish than predestined. Americans were given government takeovers of business, multi-trillion-dollar deficits, promised higher taxes, a path to socialized medicine, and an end to building the odious border fence — with, to top it all off, accusations from the likes of Van Jones and Eric Holder, apologies and bows abroad, and the beer summit. And yet the rustic ingrates are rejecting both the benefactor and his munificence.If you have bedbugs, thank Al Gore
Ethel C. Fenig "DDT was banned under the influence of Rachel Carson's 1960s book Silent Spring, the founding bible for the nascent eco and environmental movement. Advocating the now discredited theory that insecticides, especially DDT, which wiped common pests destroying crops, moved up the food chain into the birds, ultimately killing them, budding environmentalists lobbied vigorously until its use was prohibited. That was one of the earliest environmental victories in contemporary times."
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