A new documentary that Daddy Blogger and friend of PW Robert Pedersen would like to have us plug here. I’m just going to let him speak for the moment: Justice O’Connor, speaking for the Court in Troxel v. Granville, 527 U.S. 1069 (1999): “The Fourteenth Amendment provides that no State shall ‘deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of the law.’ We have long recognized that

Obama forecasts gloom as Brown comes to visit. Ach, ‘e’s dour! Moe Lane wants to ask Sasha and Malia about a couple of classmates who won’t be attending their school next year, thanks to Dirty Dick Durbin. Christopher Hitchens on the binding UN resolution against “defamation of religion.” British Muslims enraged by documentary showing gay Muslims and representing their frequent maltreatment at the hands of their countries. Worth a watch,

A few quick thoughts as a follow-up to Dan’s post on the ever wrong — yet still ever presumptuous — David Brooks, who is just now beginning to realize that the halo he saw around Obama’s head during those 2 years of campaigning was the product of CGI and creative Hollywood lighting, not a function of political beatitude, manifesting itself through prisms of Iceland spar and Platonic Hope onto the

Everytime he opens his yap, they get bigger: Even though President Barack Obama has repeatedly pledged to ban congressional earmarks, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel has 16 such projects, worth about $8.5 million, in the bill the Senate is scheduled to begin debating Tuesday. The earmarks include funds for a Chicago planetarium and a Chicago suburb. Obama has been relentless in criticizing the use of earmarks; in his

Toby Harnden at The Telegraph: The notion that there would ever have been a press conference scheduled in the Rose Garden at the start of March is, of course, faintly ridiculous. Mr Brown might be forgiven for thinking that his friend, rival and predecessor Tony Blair would not have been treated the same way by his bosom buddy President George W. Bush. After all, there are 132 rooms in the

Yes, he did! So what has happened in the last two months? The economy has received no great new outside shock. Exchange rates and other prices have been stable, and there are no security crises of note. The reality of a sharp recession has been known and built into stock prices since last year’s fourth quarter. What is new is the unveiling of Mr. Obama’s agenda and his approach to