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A group of legal scholars and attorneys gathered recently to develop a detailed proposal to reform the Supreme Court. Among the items addressed are term lengths and appointments as well as changes in how the high court actually handles and picks its cases. I’m not averse to making some changes to the Supreme Court. For instance, I’ve always believed that in a democratic society no public office of any sort should be a lifetime appointment. I don’t think the Founding Fathers were... Read More→

Attorney General Eric Holder berated America at large this week for being a “nation of cowards” about the subject of race. His high and mighty pronouncement came right about the same time that Al Sharpton and his racial bogeymen called for the firing of a New York Post cartoonist and a general boycott of the paper for a cartoon Sharpton deemed to be racist. God does indeed have a sense of humor. Holder’s roundabout request for a dialogue about race should be taken for what it is.... Read More→

Secretary of State Clinton (I can’t believe I have to type that) said this past week that we have get negotiations back on track with North Korea and their burgeoning nuclear weapons program. There really is nothing to negotiate. The North Koreans do pretty much whatever they want. Haven’t we been to this rodeo? Several times as former ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton explains in his article, Hillary Clinton’s North Korea Naivete. An apt title and a great article from... Read More→

…what is to become of the potential candidacy of Rep. Peter King (CD 3)? A few weeks ago, King publicly announced that he was going to run for Hillary Clinton’s Senate seat in 2010. He reportedly didn’t care who Gov. David Paterson was going to appoint to be her replacement. He was going to take them on regardless. Now, not so much. It looks like money may be the reason for his trepidation. A lot of people can make that excuse nowadays for a lot of things. I for one hope that King... Read More→

Almost as quickly as the rumor started that former NYS Governor George Pataki was considered a possibility to challenge Kirsten Gillibrand, it now seems highly unlikely that he will take up the task. Cynics say the rumor was deliberately trumped up to drum up business for his law practice. What’s more likely is that he is enjoying himself in the private sector and wants to make a few bucks. Who can blame him? He’s been a small town mayor, he served in the state legislature as both an... Read More→

The Democrats aren’t going to suffer the potential loss of the 20th CD gladly. Both donkey Sens. Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand have endorsed Tedisco’s opponent Scott Murphy. The election, which RNC Chairman Michael Steele has called a “battle royale,” is set for March 31.  Read More →

It can be safely said that bipartisanship in Washington is dead. Obama could only secure three Republican votes in the Senate (from liberal Republicans at that) and none in the House on his stimulus package. Sen. Judd Gregg (R-NH) just walked away from his Commerce nomination. House Donkeys would just as soon set the Capitol on fire before even allowing Republicans to speak their views on legislation. So this is Obama’s victory. Well, he owns it now. There’s no more blaming George W.... Read More→

Sen. Judd Gregg (R-NH) did the right thing today by withdrawing his name from consideration for the Commerce Secretary post. There is a world of difference from Gregg’s views and Obama’s on two key issues – the economy and the census. Gregg is a fiscal conservative. Obama is a spendthrift. Gregg wants to use the census as a tool to gain data on the population. Obama wants to use the census as a political weapon to benefit the Democrats.  Read More →

Congressional Democrats settled on their final stimulus package – $789 billion worth. It was settled on rather quickly, which is to be expected when you completely close out the Republicans and chisel away just enough RINOs (three to be exact) to make it happen. Here is what the Wall Street Journal had to say about the focal points of the stimulus. My own comments are in Italics. Business confidence Steps: Tax breaks for businesses, appropriations. Measurement of success: Stock market results... Read More→

Chalk one up for the rabid environmentalists who will subvert everything, even the rule of law, to get their way. Wrong-sighted New Jersey Superior Court Judge Ross Anzaldi ruled that Exxon Mobil can be sued under the state’s Spill Compensation and Control Act for breaking that law prior to its being enacted. If we’re just going to hold companies accountable for actions that they committed before laws were even enacted, why bother enacting the laws? Why not just take them to court and... Read More→