Liberals and the Constitution: A Postscript(John Hinderaker) This morning, Steve did a great post titled Liberals and the Constitution. If you haven’t read it, you should. Steve wrote: [T]he prize for this week's liberal obtuseness about the Constitution goes to Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who told an Egyptian television audience that "I would not look to the U.S. Constitution if I were drafting a constitution in the year 2012." Instead, "I might look at the
Another Green Prophet Defects(John Hinderaker) One by one, the more honest of the scientists who fell for the anthropogenic global warming hoax are confessing their error. The latest is Germany’s Professor Fritz Vahrenholt. Melanie Phillips explains: [A] new book, Die Kalte Sonne, written by Prof Dr Fritz Vahrenholt and geologist/paleontologist Dr. Sebastian Lüning, has caused a sensation even in advance of its official publication yesterday. For Prof. Vahrenholt, a renewable energy expert, was one of
Who's Afraid of Dirty Harry?(Steven Hayward) Well, this didn’t take long. �Clint Eastwood is going to regret doing that “halftime” ad after all the parodists get done with it. First up: Rush, naturally. But our pal Remy Munasifi does Rush one better, with a full-scale video parody:
Democracy In Action?(John Hinderaker) We attended our precinct caucus tonight to vote in the straw presidential poll. Tomorrow morning’s newspapers will be full of coverage of today’s primary in Missouri and caucuses in Colorado and Minnesota. I don’t know about Colorado and Missouri, but any weight placed on tonight’s straw poll in Minnesota will be misplaced. No delegates are being selected, and very few Minnesotans are willing to devote an evening to participating in
Sessions Scolds the AWOL Democrats(John Hinderaker) Ben Bernanke testified before the Senate Budget Committee today. As is the usual practice, ranking Republican Jeff Sessions delivered an opening statement. It provided an excellent summary of the history that has brought us to the current budgetary crisis. It was a challenge to Barack Obama and the Democrats to come up with a credible budget plan, which for three years they have refused to do. And it was about
