—You may as well stop right there, because the answer is no, I’m afraid.  Sorry, but the little guy somehow got it into his head his head that, were he to really study up on Constitutional Law, when Ruth Bader Ginsberg steps aside he might just have a chance at a nomination—having sent the President’s 2004 re-election campaign $93 dollars and a homemade jambalaya loaded with cajun-spiced scarab beetles. It’s

From the Washington Times: Syrian Foreign Minister Farouk Sharaa erred twice in his eulogy of Interior Minister Ghazi Kanaan calling the suicide an “assassination,” said an-Nahar. The public attorney who superintended an autopsy made the same mistake during a televised news conference. “The ‘tongue lapses’ buttressed a worldwide conviction that Gen. Kanaan was ‘willfully eliminated’ to cover up a high-level involvement of the Assad regime in Lebanon’s ex-Premier Rafik Hariri’s

Attorney and frequent commenter Donald Quigley sends along this interesting bit of analysis regarding a Tenth Circuit Court decision that effectively does to the Commerce Clause what Kelo did for takings and eminent domain—namely, extended it to the point where there is no longer any logical constraint on its power. Writes Don: You may recall a series of BS Supreme Court decisions (e.g. Wickard, Raich) in which purely intra-state activities

In a long and interesting comment thread to this pro-Miers post by Beldar, which itself excoriates NRO for abandoning a pretense of neutrality (an odd demand of an opinion journal), Hans Gruber sums up his disappointment with the Miers nomination this way: […] Now [the President] hands us another nominee, this time a former Democrat and supporter of racial preferences, who has never written or commented publicly about any issue

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