Legal Commentary

The Federal Government is Now our Hamburger Police

Posted on April 01, 2010
Did you know (thanks Instapundit for the pointer to Ed Morrissey) that the new insurance reform, or health reform, or whatever-I-feel-like reform, mandates calorie counts of menu items on all printed materials of restaurants with more than 20 locations??? What the what? How do these things get into federal legislation?? Mr...

Offshore Drilling and Planetary Humility

Posted on March 31, 2010
I was wondering what the catch was to President Obama opening offshore areas to drilling. Here it is. And here. The Obama administration is expected to announce later this week final rules for regulating carbon dioxide from cars and trucks?effectively increasing the average fuel economy target for vehicle fleets to 35...

Tough Love for Israel

Posted on March 30, 2010
Curiously, the White House is holding a seder service this year. I'm not sure that American Jews will find that very comforting after recent events. This piece by Tevi Troy explains why. It seems that President Obama's Administration has found it necessary to take the hard line with Israel...

Stop Annoying the Climate!

Posted on March 29, 2010
This news story details environmentalists' new strategy to combat global warming - sue. Sue who? Whoever has deep pockets, it seems. Lee A DeHihns III, a former associate general counsel at the EPA, says that "global warming is a 'public nuisance,' just like a neighbor with a loud stereo...

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Utah Republican Caucus

Posted on March 24, 2010
I ran last night in my Salt Lake City precinct to be a state delegate. My stump speech went something like this: I want to be a state delegate because I think we have a great opportunity to join the national dialogue and I want to be part of it. Recent events prove that our government has gotten out of hand...

Student Protest Turns Violent

Posted on March 05, 2010
At the University of Wisconsin (from Instapundit). Cuts are being, and need to be, made at all levels of government as well as within private businesses and private families. It is what it is. Can the students not see that? And how many of these students can actually pay a higher tuition but just don't want to? I'm pretty sure they can realign their budgets too, make cuts, and find money for

Ha. Finally.

Posted on March 05, 2010
Military tribunals after all. Hopefully.

Their Day Belongs in Military Court

Posted on January 31, 2010
This article from Powerline, called The Holder Hangover (and Whence it Comes), is a legal argument as to why the ONLY appropriate place for "trying" terrorists is a military tribunal. The article concludes: The "presumption" that unlawful enemy combatants are to be treated like American citizens is an offense against law, tradition and reason, but it does not stand alone, and it does not derive

President Obama Doesn't Like, or Trust, Cameras

Posted on January 22, 2010
But first, I think, all these cameras are going to move out so you can tell me the truth. Followed by laughter. What???

Stop the Derisive Sarcasm

Posted on January 21, 2010
Dana Milbank has this column today in The Washington Post. Best line: Gibbs acts as though he's playing himself in the movie version of his job.Have you watched any of the White House media briefings? White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs is the most irreverent, elusive, exclusive press secretary I have every seen...

Supreme Court For Corporate Free Speech

Posted on January 21, 2010
The Supreme Court ruled today that the government may not prohibit corporations from spending money during and about political campaigns. This is a major reversal of previous rulings that prohibited corporations from financing political ads. Here's a NY Times article...

More on Absent Fathers

Posted on January 16, 2010
From Colbert I. King about the ironic, less-than reaction to Peter Orszag.

$500k in Stimulus Funds to ClimateGate Professor

Posted on January 15, 2010
Report by Mike Flynn. Not good. Really not good.

Fathers Matter

Posted on January 14, 2010
Instapundit pointed me to this scathing review of President Obama's time as a community organizer in Chicago. The sad thing is that nothing is better, and child-on-child violence is getting worse. Child-on-child violence??? It shouldn't even exist...

Awful, Devastating Pictures

Posted on January 13, 2010
Earthquake in Haiti. Please help. Donate now. More info and ways to help from Michelle Malkin.

This is What Our Campaigns Have Become?

Posted on January 13, 2010
This is embarrassing. I know Coakley is nervous about the election, but she could be acting a whole lot better. Standing by and watching a reporter being pushed down? Paying money to union "supporters" to show up at rallies? And the things we don't know about? I can only imagine...

Victor Davis Hansen

Posted on January 12, 2010
Mr. Hansen has this to say about the way our world works: The Strange Thing About Nemesis??is that the deity picks its victims on the basis of irony and arrogance. For every media-frenzy about ethical lapses of columnist Armstrong Williams taking Bush administration money for hawking No Child Left Behind, there is a Jonathan Gruber, the MIT go-to pundit on health care, who raked in $400,000 from

Fair Disclosure

Posted on January 08, 2010
Megan McArdle has this piece on MIT economist Jonathan Gruber receiving over $300,000 (larger amount reported at ) from the Department of Health & Human Services. His reports, analysis and comments have been used repeatedly by the Administration as support for the health care bill...

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Frauds

Posted on January 08, 2010
Tom Blumer has this article on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the governmental "public policy instrument" (Barney Frank's words), and how they have misreported their numbers for years - on a scale of Enron times 8. He quotes a Wall Street Journal article "New research by Edward Pinto, a former chief credit officer for Fannie Mae and a housing expert, has found that from the time Fannie and Freddie

The Media Stands up for Fox News

Posted on October 22, 2009
Did you know today the Treasury Department made the pay czar Ken Feinberg available for interviews to the White House news organizations - all of them except Fox. The networks, though, refused. Charles Krauthammer discusses it here. Good for them - they did the right thing...

Reminder: Roman Polanski Raped a Child

Posted on October 02, 2009
This articleis the best I've read so far about the shameful Polanski rape and run. Honestly, there can be no "mitigating factors" to excuse Polanski's behavior. He should go to jail for a very long time.

Let's Hope Letterman is Not Our Moral Compass

Posted on October 02, 2009
David Letterman revealedon his show last night that he has has extramarital affairs with members of his staff. He admitted this in lieu of being extorted by a CBS employee who had pictures of Letterman's indiscretions. The employee has been arrested in NYC for extortion...

ACORN Hilarity by John Stewart

Posted on September 17, 2009
The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10cThe Audacity of Hoswww.thedailyshow.comDaily Show Full EpisodesPolitical HumorHealthcare ProtestsACORN should be disbanded. Both houses of Congress have voted to defund the organization. The President should sign this bill, and sever his ties with it.

A Different Viewpoint

Posted on August 27, 2009
I enjoyed these two opposite-view pieces, here and here, on Senator Kennedy's replacement. Massachusetts law requires that the state wait and hold a special election to elect a replacing Senator, rather than have the state governor appoint a replacement...

More on Laws

Posted on August 27, 2009
Daniel Henninger has this piece in today's Opinion Journal about Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to name a special prosecutor to investigate CIA agents. Mr. Holder cited the Justice Department's Office of Legal Responsibility as one of the reasons he felt compelled to start the hunt that will inevitably lead to indictments of CIA agents acting within CIA guidelines...

Charles Krauthammer - No Inheritance in Senate

Posted on December 22, 2008
Charles Krauthammer has a problem with appointing Caroline Kennedy to Hillary Clinton's Senate seat. Don't get me wrong. I have nothing against Caroline Kennedy. She seems a fine person. She certainly has led the life of a worthy socialite helping all the right causes...

Bleeding Hearts, Tight Wallets

Posted on December 22, 2008
Nicholas Kristof has an op-ed today noting that his research has found that "liberals are personally stingy." Liberals show tremendous compassion in pushing for generous government spending to help the neediest people at home and abroad. Yet when it comes to individual contributions to charitable causes, liberals are cheapskates...

One More (Mormon) Thing

Posted on December 15, 2008
So, not to belabor the previous discussions, but there is one more aspect to the current campaign against the Mormon church: it isn't the first. Mormon history is replete with periods of intolerance, forced migration and even violence. Early members of the church were physically, often violently, forced from their homes and settlements in Missouri and Illinois...

Well Said, Mr. Hanson

Posted on December 15, 2008
Victor Davis Hanson has some insight this morning on why our present generation fails in both ethics and common decency: When one reviews the released tapes from a thuggish Gov. Blagojevich, or remembers what Richard Fuld was doing at Lehman Brothers, recalls the base Wall Street criminality of a Bernard Madoff, or hears the latest December 7th sermon of ignorance and hate from Rev...

The Mormon Church, Again

Posted on December 08, 2008
I've been sitting on thisall day, tired of talking about it, but still bothered by it. The author, Rick Jacobs, felt a need to respond to earlier articles standing up for members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, specifically the piece by Jonah Goldberg, and their right to participate in politics...

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