As Andrew C. McCarthy wrote on Tuesday, “It’s not the rule of law, it’s the rule of lawyers: That’s the central message conveyed by Pres. Barack Obama’s nomination of Sonia Sotomayor.” She is, after all, widely admired among the Obamanist left for her empathy, not her temperament or wisdom. That plus her compelling life story and her love of Nancy Drew mysteries.
We also know that she has had many of her decisions reversed on appeal by the Supreme Court, that she is argumentative and unpleasant, that she believes the place of a judge is to create policy, rather than to apply the law impartially, and that she believes her race and gender make her better than whites or men.
Racism does not have a good track record. It’s been tried a long time. And you would think by now that we’d want to put an end to it instead of putting it under new management.
(Thomas Sowell, 5/27/09 on the Glenn Beck Show)
Democrats and the partisan Democrat media have started their campaign for Sotomayor by blackmailing Republicans; saying if they oppose her that Republicans will never get another Hispanic vote. And they are also preemptively accusing Republicans of hypocrisy because George H. W. Bush mentioned upon nominating him that Clarence Thomas’s inspirational life story should arouse Americans’ empathy. (more…)
Posted by beaglescout under North Korea, War Comments Off
Basically this is unsubstantiated so far. I’ve been getting twitter updates up the wazoo. Here is what I have heard. So far it is rumor, and I will update as I find out more.
One thing to keep in mind is that North Korea engages in sword-waving pretty frequently. This may not be a serious threat. But it sure sounds like more of a serious threat than it usually does.
South Korea’s decision from earlier today to join the anti-proliferation treaty has served as an excuse for North Korea to state that it takes that as a Declaration of War against it. North Korea has stated it is withdrawing from the Armistice. Also that this returns the Korean peninsula to a state of war.
Lots of updates here. As Breaking Tweets mentions, this was first broadcast on Twitter by @BreakingNews, which may have exaggerated the state of affairs. CNN @iDesk is fact-checking.
SEOUL, May 27 (Yonhap) — North Korea said Wednesday that it will no longer be bound to the Korean War armistice and will militarily respond to any foreign attempt to inspect its ships, denouncing South Korea’s participation in a U.S.-led security campaign as a “declaration of war.”
“As declared to the world, our revolutionary forces will consider the full participation in the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) by the Lee Myung-bak group of traitors as a declaration of war against us,” the North’s permanent military mission to the joint security area said. [...]
This decision comes after North Korea set off a nuclear bomb in a test, fired five missiles that are capable of reaching Japan, and restarted its shut-down nuclear plant. South Korea responded by stating it would join with the US and stop and search North Korean ships under the Proliferation Security Initiative.
11:33PM CDT: Michelle Malkin is on it
“Joe Biden said our dear leader would soon be tested.” [Read it all.]
@Lileks tweets “So: a country tests a nuke and a passel of missiles, announces it is the subject of a declaration of war, and we wonder what they’re up to. We have the same reaction to everything the Norks do: the wolf who cried boy. That may need adjusting.”
@kurulounge tweets: “@HeyTammyBruce when i was stationed in korea this was a regular occurence. don’t worry until they start moving troops”
North Korea Threatens Armed Strike, End to Armistice Bloomberg
By Heejin Koo May 27 (Bloomberg) — North Korea threatened military action in response to South Korea joining a program to seize weapons shipments, …
12:12AM CDT: While I hope they’re awake and sweating this in the White House, CNN, and all the news agencies, nothing more is coming across the wires. I’m going to put this to bed and go to sleep myself.
For the record, let me say that I support some of the renewable energy ideas, even putting money where my mouth is, putting solar on my own home and a local school. However, neither project would have been possible without state subsidies. For renewable energy to work in our economy, it must move past the government subsidy stage and become more efficient. It took over a hundred years t create our current energy infrastructure, anyone who believes we can completely rebuild it with the current crop of renewable energy technologies is not realistic. – Anthony
Mr. Ellis talks about all the technologies available, both the renewable and unreliable choices and the nuclear option. Then he gets down to the wall we are racing towards.
We have about 30 or so years before the shortage of oil becomes acute and our economies and societies begin to falter, and that is not very much time in which to alter our entire energy production industry. It is like relying on the Victorians to plan ahead and ensure that we still had a viable civilisation in the 1930s. And while the Victorians were both successful and resourceful, history demonstrates that new sources of raw materials were never actively planned until the old sources were in desperately short supply or worked-out completely. However, the introduction of a new, nationwide power generating system is an extremely long-term investment, and if we are to make this change without a dramatic interruption to our energy supplies (and our society) we need foresight, vision and a quick decision. What we need is a tough, educated, talented, rational leader to take a difficult but responsible decision to dramatically increase our nuclear energy production capability. However, what we have in the UK is Gordon Brown!
He has Brown. We have Obama, Pelosi, Reid, the Gaia worshipping Voluntary Human Extinction Green Movement, and the partisan media. None of these people or organizations can overcome their own rectal-cranial inversions long enough to see where we are going. They shall have to be expelled from any position of responsibility or influence if they don’t remove themselves voluntarily.
Highly recommended. Read the whole thing, including the very educational comments.
God bless the ones who served and gave their all.
God bless the ones who serve our country still.
God guard them and protect them else they fall,
And bring them safely home if it’s His will.
So we pray… Amen (more…)
Randy Barnett continues to work on the Bill of Federalism (previously blogged on here). His updated version is here (PDF).
The Bill of Federalism was drafted by Professor Randy Barnett of Georgetown University Law School and is supported by The Nationwide Tea Party Coalition. You can support The Bill of Federalism by downloading the pdf above and delivering it, via email or print, to your local state legislator, requesting that they introduce a bill in their legislative body to petitition Congress to hold a Constitutional Convention for the purpose of passing all 10 amendments of The Bill of Federalism. You can find local contacts to help you in your state here.
So Barnett is moving ahead with the plan to advance it through the states. Individuals are to print the PDF out and give copies to their state and federal representatives, while explaining why it’s a great idea.
I’m still thinking the last clause is the hardest part of that plan to actually perform.
The Goode Family is the new project from Mike Judge. If I were forced to pitch it in a sentence, it is a satire of greens, vegans, Algoracle, and political correctness that is to King of the Hill what Futurama was to the Simpsons. Except it looks like it raises KotH on funniness instead of being less funny, the opposite of what Futurama did to the Simpsons.
Want to see what is wrong with the Republicans in elected office? Take a look at the following table from Pew.
Republicans' Road to Ruin
Allahpundit has plenty more. But that table shows where the Republican party has been going wrong for the last 10 years or so. It shows the Republicans have been doing the wrong thing so long it might not be possible to recover. But I still think it’s worth trying to rescue the Republican party from its so-called leaders who have tried to turn it from the party of fiscal responsibility and economic strength into the “slightly less socialist than the Democrats party.”
Under the 2009 CAFE Standards put into place in the USA last week we will be forced to put our families into cars like the SmartCar, cars that look like this after getting into accidents.
Portrait of a Death Trap
Doug Ross compiles tons of information about these death traps. Read it all.
This naive* article at WaPo and Megan McArdle’s response have prompted a thought, as to what it would take for even impoverished hard-cases to get themselves out of poverty. For that is the true story of America, the rags to riches story. It’s the story of an orphaned boy who is so poor his shoes have holes in the soles, who starts by selling newspapers and apples on the street corner, becomes a wealthy and successful man, gives generously of time and money to charity when he is among the elite of his city, and opens an orphanage to take care of kids who are just like he was once. America is a place where that has happened and can happen again. It is not a place where people are trapped in poverty by class or legal restrictions; at least not yet.
To those who have taught teens:
Let’s say you were given the opportunity to teach the skills of success to a bunch of teenagers who are mostly aimless without any understanding of how to succeed in life. How would you go about it? (more…)
The Jackson County (MS) Republican Executive Committee has passed a resolution in support of auditing the Federal Reserve. I’m announcing it because I think it is important that the local parties assert conservative and classical liberal principles such as those in the 2008 platform to the State and National parties. The State and National parties seem to be to some degree captive to those moderates who would triangulate our principles into irrelevance, and with our principles withering into irrelevance so too our party.
Actions are necessary. Resolutions are the first step.
Jackson County Republican Executive Committee
Resolution in support of The Federal Reserve Transparency Act of 2009
Whereas, we, as Members of the Jackson County Republican Executive Committee applaud transparency and accountability in government and reject government secrecy involving monetary policy that impacts the entire economy; and
Whereas, serious discussions of proposals to oversee and audit the Federal Reserve are long overdue; and
Whereas, the Federal Reserve can enter into agreements with foreign governments and foreign central banks and the United States Congress is prohibited from overseeing these agreements; and
Whereas, we, as Members of the Jackson County Republican Executive Committee, believe agreements made by the Federal Reserve with foreign powers and foreign banking institutions should be subject to Congressional oversight; and
Whereas, the United States Constitution, gives the United States Congress the authority to coin Money and regulate the value thereof and does not give Congress the authority to delegate control over monetary policy to a central bank; and
Whereas, auditing the Federal Reserve will allow Congress to assert its constitutional authority over monetary policy and help to protect the value of the United States dollar;
Therefore, BE IT RESOLVED, that we, the Members of the Jackson County Republican Executive Committee, in defense of the United States Constitution, STRONGLY URGE the Mississippi Congressional Delegation to support the Federal Reserve Transparency Act of 2009.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that we, the Members of the Jackson County Republican Executive Committee, recommend adoption of this resolution by the Central Committee of the Mississippi Republican Party, and recommend that the Central Committee forward their adopted resolution to the Republican National Committee with their recommendation for adoption.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that copies of this resolution be transmitted to each member of the Mississippi Congressional Delegation, the officers of the Central Committee of the Mississippi Republican Party, and Central Committee Members representing the Fourth Congressional District.
Adopted this the 14th day of May, 2009.
signed…
Theron Furr, Chairman
Jackson County Republican Executive Committee
I urge those of my readers who are members of their own local committees, and who agree with this resolution, to pass just such a resolution and publicize it. If you don’t agree with this resolution, then pass other resolutions on current topics that call for conservative principles to be used on our present difficulties.
societies begin to falter, and that is not very much time in which to alter our entire energy production industry. It is like relying on the Victorians to plan ahead and ensure that we still had a viable civilisation in the 1930s. And while the Victorians were both successful and resourceful, history demonstrates that new sources of raw materials were never actively planned until the old sources were in desperately short supply or worked-out completely. However, the introduction of a new, nationwide power generating system is an extremely long-term investment, and if we are to make this change without a dramatic interruption to our energy supplies (and our society) we need foresight, vision and a quick decision. What we need is a tough, educated, talented, rational leader to take a difficult but responsible decision to dramatically increase our nuclear energy production capability. However, what we have in the UK is Gordon Brown!
e Bill of Federalism (previously blogged on 
