It was because of his great court picks.
Needless to say, HP is VERY happy with this pick.
Update: More info on Alito,
A graduate of Princeton and then Yale Law School, an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the appellate division, Assistant to the Solicitor General, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate as […]
“In the United States, over 85 percent of health care expenses are paid for by insurance companies or governments. This is one of the highest rates of insulation in the world (based on OECD health data, but this particular table is not available on line). Even in Canada, the percent of health care costs paid […]
“As Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald mulls possible charges in the Valerie Plame investigation, the gloating in liberal enclaves like Manhattan, Oberlin, and Arianna’s dining room has swelled to a roar… Hold the schadenfreude, blue-staters. Rooting for [Karl] Rove’s indictment in this case isn’t just unseemly, it’s unthinking and ultimately self-destructive. Anyone who cares about civil […]
Do you know of any good podcasts? Here are some economic podcast sites I’d recommend.
Radio Economics, a blog by Dr. James Reese an economics professor at the University of South Carolina. He interviews various economic bloggers. Interviews include nobel laureate Gary Becker and Richard Posner, of the Becker-Posner blog. There is also a recent one […]
“Rent control would be another. In California, for example, there are two things that almost every person who wants to be thought decent and humane believes in: He believes in open space and he believes in affordable housing. Now if they understood just the most elementary economics, they would know that if you take two-thirds […]
The Cleveland Plain Dealer writes:
Attention, Wal-Mart shoppers, er, critics
Aides to Kucinich, Nader, Dean bought supplies from chain
Monday, October 17, 2005
Stephen Koff
Plain Dealer Bureau Chief
Washington
– Ralph Nader, Dennis Kucinich, Stephanie Tubbs Jones, Howard Dean and others on the national stage have badmouthed Wal-Mart over its wages, benefits or impact on American communities.
Yet, their aides have bought […]
“We’ve been waiting 30 years to end the lunacy of nine demigods on the Supreme Court deciding every burning social issue of the day for us, loyal subjects in a judicial theocracy. We don’t want someone who will decide those issues for us – but decide them “our” way. If we did, a […]
There are some great propositions coming up on the November 8th ballot. Here are my favorites,
Proposition 73
WAITING PERIOD AND PARENTAL NOTIFICATION BEFORE TERMINATION OF MINOR’S PREGNANCY. INITIATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
That’s right my friends, here in the state of California, there are some people who believe that 40 year old adults are too stupid to know […]
“The sickness of what liberals have done to America is that so many citizens – even conservative citizens – seem to believe the job of a Supreme Court justice entails nothing more than “voting” on public-policy issues. The White House considers it relevant to tell us Miers’ religious beliefs, her hobbies, her hopes and dreams. […]
The pioneer of the civil rights movement has died:
Rosa Parks, civil rights pioneer, dead at 92
October 24, 2005, 10:47 PM
DETROIT (AP) — Rosa Lee Parks, whose refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man sparked the modern civil rights movement, died Monday. She was 92.
Parks died at her home of natural causes, […]
“In its eagerness to regain faltering conservative support for the Miers nomination, the White House has suggested that her religion and her personal views on abortion be treated as relevant information. Indeed, since there is so little else to recommend Miers, the White House is arguing that Miers’ religion and personal views on abortion be […]
“Perhaps President Bush was conflating liberal dominion over constitutional law and activist courts since the New Deal with intellectualism. That is easy to do, given the pervasiveness of liberal ideology in legal scholarship and academia more broadly. It is tempting to blame the root for the branch. If the liberal jurisprudential establishment emerged from elite […]
The answer seems obvious to me, but others find it hard to accept:
“In choosing Kenneth Starr to vouch for the social conservative credentials of Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers, Dr. James Dobson picked a man who 24 years ago as a Justice Department official did the same for Justice Sandra Day O’Connor”. –Robert Novak
When you hear news like this:
Compton’s homicides
A turn for the worse in this deadly problem is a concern for the region.
After years of steady improvement, Compton’s homicide rates have taken a disturbing turn for the worse. Three murders Tuesday have added to the city’s total of 54 killings this year.
If the trend continues Compton […]
“The importance of the distinction between these two modes of use cannot be exaggerated. It is not only a question of respecting the separation of powers. Those who believe the Washington legislature got it wrong can work to change the law through the ordinary democratic processes of persuasion and voting. But in the U.S., unlike […]
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