Federal Judiciary

Wisconsin?s Chief Injustice

Posted on April 01, 2011
Shirley Abrahamson is an activist judge <i>par excellence</i>. Atop Wisconsin's supreme court sits Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson. And an unhappy chief is she. Conservatives outnumber liberals on the court by four to three, forcing Abrahamson to dissent in 37 percent of the cases during the 2009–10 term...

The Libyan Boomerang

Posted on April 01, 2011
Obama is unintentionally creating the most favorable conditions for the worst-case scenario. The worst thing that could foreseeably happen in Libya is for the situation to degenerate into an indefinite insurgent conflict in a failed state...

March Diary

Posted on April 01, 2011
Gay marriage, tiger moms, and more. Analysis Paralysis on Marriage     We -- some colleagues and I -- were discussing the two pieces National Review published recently on homosexual marriage...

The President?s New Energy Plan

Posted on April 01, 2011
What?s wrong with it? Just about everything. If you want to lower the price of something, the best solution is to produce more of it. This is basic Econ 101 stuff. But nowhere in the administration's new energy proposals, presented by the president this Wedesday in a speech at Georgetown University, is the idea of pumping more oil in the United States addressed, except to say it is impossible...

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Syria?s ?Reformer?

Posted on April 01, 2011
Why the delicacy for Assad? Many of the members of Congress of both parties who have gone to Syria in recent months have said they believe he's a reformer. --- Hillary Clinton on Bashar al-Assad, March 27 Few things said by this administration in its two years can match this one for moral bankruptcy and strategic incomprehensibility...

Stop ATF?s Anti-Gun Zealots

Posted on April 01, 2011
Congress should not confirm the president?s nominee to head the bureau. For 30 years, Chicago banned handguns. The crime rate skyrocketed. Murders soared. Gangs blossomed. Desperate city officials even considered calling the National Guard to combat the out-of-control violence that all the 'community organizing' in the world couldn't curb...

The Budget Debate That Wasn?t

Posted on April 01, 2011
A sea of red ink is changing the political calculus. If you propose stiff budget cuts and don't get called 'heartless,' does it really count? Republicans passed an unheard-of $61 billion in budget cuts a few weeks ago, and not only have lived to tell the tale, but have emerged without a scratch...

Planned Lies

Posted on April 01, 2011
Planned Parenthood feeds off a culture of falsehood. Perhaps you've seen the commercials touting the life-saving benefits of Planned Parenthood. They're very professional, very persuasive, and clearly very expensive...

The Failure of Obama?s Conventional Wisdom

Posted on April 01, 2011
The experts say a shutdown will help the Dems. Wouldn?t be the first time time they were wrong. In 2008, supporters of Barack Obama subscribed to the view that his election would, not to put too fine a point on it, 'change everything...

Obama's Amazing Achievements

Posted on March 31, 2011
His military intervention prompted some stunning reversals. By bombing Libya, President Obama has accomplished some things once thought absolutely impossible in America: (a) War-mongering liberals: Liberals are now chest-thumping about military 'progress' in Libya...

No More Tea?

Posted on March 31, 2011
Tea partiers still have to argue their case. Has the wind gone out of the sails of the small-government movement? Is the Tea Party going through a hangover? You can find some evidence for these propositions...

An Anti-Blasphemy Measure Laid to Rest

Posted on March 31, 2011
An essential battle for freedom is won at the U.N. A long-term campaign by the U.N.'s large Muslim bloc to impose worldwide blasphemy strictures -- like those in Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Iran -- was given a quiet burial last week in the Human Rights Council, the U...

Battling Big Abortion

Posted on March 31, 2011
The truth about the debate over defunding Planned Parenthood On Feb. 18, 2011, with bipartisan support, the House of Representatives passed the Pence Amendment, which would end taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood...

Media Matters? War on Fox News

Posted on March 31, 2011
The spy who stayed out in the cold brings news of his comrades at the Soros-funded Media Matters. I don't know about you wingnuts, but for my money the finest, most patriotic organization currently doing Gaia's work in the never-ending battle against Rethuglican malevolence is the George Soros–funded Media Matters for America...

Multiculturalism: For or Against?

Posted on March 31, 2011
Multiculturalism has many forms, and some of them are integral to America. People talk a lot about 'multiculturalism,' whether to praise it or condemn it. But standing alone, the concept is too vague to be supported or opposed...

The Tea Party Goes to War

Posted on March 31, 2011
A rallying cry for The Fight of Our Lives. ‘Let us avoid#...#suicide.' William J. Bennett and Seth Leibsohn certainly know how to grab your attention. In their call to arms, The Fight of Our Lives: Knowing the Enemy, Speaking the Truth & Choosing to Win the War Against Radical Islam, they write, 'We may soon find out whether we will take seriously our great moral and intellectual inheritance and so determine whether we indeed have the will, and the ability, to not only call this a war but to identify our enemy and to win it as well...

An organized party, &c.

Posted on March 31, 2011
It's sometimes nice, though it may be painful, to hear people speaking frankly. Senator Schumer was overheard speaking frankly to four other Democratic senators. (For the story, go here.) He told them to be sure to describe Republican spending cuts as 'extreme...

Cue the Boys of Summer 2011

Posted on March 31, 2011
A recap of hot-stove stirrings from around the major leagues A mild case of giddiness set in on a mild Saturday afternoon in mid-February. The mostly empty BoltBus zoomed down I-95 toward Washington just as CPAC '11 was gearing up...

Senator Shutdown

Posted on March 30, 2011
Senator Schumer tries to orchestrate a government shutdown. As the recently anointed head of his party's political-messaging operation, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) has been the little voice in Democratic senators' ear telling them what to say and how to say it...

Full-Throttle Drill, Drill, Drill

Posted on March 30, 2011
Unleash the great American energy industry. If you buy into the energy speech President Obama delivered on Wednesday, it sure sounds like we're headed for drill, drill, drill. It would be a total reversal of policy...

Bench Brawl in Wisconsin

Posted on March 30, 2011
The Left long ago stopped pretending that court proceedings were anything other than exercises in raw-power politics, and so they've taken their fight against Wisconsin governor Scott Walker to the state supreme court -- not in the form of a lawsuit, but in the form of a multimillion-dollar intervention into an election to a ten-year term on the court...

The Libya Rationale

Posted on March 30, 2011
Rarely has a president sounded so pleased with himself in making a confused case for an ambiguous war. President Obama contrasted himself with both Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush in his speech explaining his Libyan intervention on Monday night, as if after the struggles of the last two decades the United States has finally nailed the art of balancing its interests and values in a slippery world full of shades of gray...

Middle East Howlers

Posted on March 30, 2011
If we expect the successors of Mubarak and Qaddafi to be freedom-loving democrats, we will be dangerously disappointed. A 'howler,' the Wall Street Journal called it in an editorial yesterday...

The Obama Doctrine

Posted on March 30, 2011
Whether it?s Libya, fossil-fuel production, or the national debt, the rhetoric floats high above the messy reality. The Obama Doctrine is simple: Proclaim a utopian policy, and then pray that most of the people who hear it are Neanderthals who will ignore it...

America and Syria

Posted on March 30, 2011
U.S. leaders should not excuse the brutality of Syria?s dictator. If Pres. Barack Obama prefers not to intervene on behalf of the protesters being slaughtered in Syria, the least his administration could do is refrain from endorsing their tyrant...

Iran?s 2,500-Year War with the West

Posted on March 30, 2011
The lessons of our long history of engagement with Persia Iran is at war with the West! Even as Western politicians remain oblivious to the threat, it has not escaped the notice of Arab governments...

It Can?t Happen Here

Posted on March 30, 2011
U.S. nuclear reactors are far stronger than their Japanese counterparts. Would U.S. nuclear reactors fare better in some ultimate crisis than those in Japan? For weeks now, we've been lectured by nuclear critics who say the design and failures of the Fukushima Daiichi installation presage catastrophic failures in our own reactors...

Conservatives Pine for a Champion

Posted on March 30, 2011
The current contenders for the Republican nomination are big-government pols. If the rise of the Tea Party movement and the results of the 2010 midterms showed anything, it was that Americans were serious about reducing the size, cost, and intrusiveness of the federal government...

Project Gunrunner

Posted on March 30, 2011
Obama?s stimulus-funded border nightmare Buried in Barack Obama's failed trillion-dollar stimulus program was a $10 million bloody border racket that has now cost American lives. This goes far beyond the usual waste, fraud and abuse underwritten by progressive profligacy...

Taking Feminism Overseas

Posted on March 30, 2011
Economic development, democracy, and basic decency require empowering women abroad. Feminism as a 'movement' in America is largely played out. The work here is mostly done. At a time when education matters more than ever, more American women attend college than men...

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