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The conservative movement is lying prostrate before John McCain, a position they’ll be in more frequently if he wins the election. Today they are begging him not to choose Tom Ridge or Joe Lieberman as his running-mate because they are both pro-choice. The latter is also a Democrat.
David Limbaugh is typical:
The prospect of an Obama [...]
Filed under: Conservatism, Courts, Election
Much has been made of the Supreme Court’s rejection of D.C.’s ban on handguns in the home, but the high court handed down another 5-4 ruling as well. It has gone relatively unnoticed–due most likely to the gravity of the handgun ruling–but is nevertheless worth mentioning, if for no other reason than it put a [...]
Filed under: Courts
A pleasant surprise. Though as Butler Shaffer argues at LewRockwell.com, we shouldn’t take it for granted that the court won’t severely qualify the right to keep and bear arms in the future. Obama’s triangulating statement on the issue — he says he sort-of agrees with Heller, but still believes in restrictions — perhaps signals what [...]
Filed under: Courts
Time, time, time is on my side, yes it is…
–The Rolling Stones
Regarding Freddy Gray’s last, I wouldn’t assume that today’s stenographers of the royal court aren’t correct about the perception, if not the truth, of current events as they will be viewed a generation on, at least here in the States. A stable, oil-producing Iraq garrisoned by US [...]
George Will — lauded as “the right’s most enduring elder statesman” by Jacob Heilbrunn in the New York Times last weekend — had a very good column yesterday about the Supreme Court’s Boumediene decision. Will drips scorn on John McCain’s proclamation that this ruling, which should shut down the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, [...]