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September 21, 2006
Last week, I left a comment at the ADF's blog in response to a post by Jordan Lorence about judicial activism that was apparently written in response to me (go here, scroll down to my first comment). My comment said:
Simple yes or no question: was Loving v Virginia correctly decided or was it "…
September 21, 2006
Jason Rosenhouse links to this essay by Christopher Hitchens about the current brouhaha over the Pope's comments on Islam. Hitchens points out several ironies in the situation. The most obvious one, and I pointed it out myself earlier, is that anyone with the title Pope should be complaining of…
September 21, 2006
A couple more cases where the ADF is almost certainly in the right, reported by Agape Press. One school in Kansas and one in Texas where school officials are not treating Fellowship of Christian Athletes clubs the same as other student clubs, denying them mention in school yearbooks or access to…
September 21, 2006
Found this via Volokh. A white supremacist family that includes the singing duo Prussian Blue has moved from Bakersfield, California to Great Falls, Montana because Bakersfield wasn't "white enough" for them. When their new neighbors found out who they were, they handed out flyers around town with…
September 21, 2006
Dick DeVos, the Republican candidate for governor in Michigan, has confirmed what we already knew from the report of one of our MCFS members in a letter to the editor last week, that he advocates teaching ID in public school science classrooms. The Detroit Free Press reports:
"I would like to see…
September 20, 2006
Moderate Republicans are pushing a bill that would stick to the substance of the Geneva Conventions and Bill Frist says he and other White House allies will filibuster it even though it has majority support.
With Congress scheduled to adjourn in nine days, delaying tactics such as a filibuster…
September 20, 2006
Here's a great clip from the Daily Show about Bleu Copas, one of the many gay Arabic translators to be booted out of the military for being gay at a time when the military admits there is a major shortage of people with that specialty. The clip includes uber-nutball Paul Cameron rambling…
September 20, 2006
In the interests of expanding my audience and appealing to the hip hop generation, I have translated my blog into Snoop speak using the Gizoogle translator. The results are here.
September 20, 2006
A teacher at a cosmetology school finds out one of her students is gay (not a big shock). She decides to place two religious pamphlets in his smock during instructional time and tell him to read them and discuss it with her later. The student complains to the school about this behavior. The school…
September 20, 2006
A new documentary called Iraq for Sale has Haliburton under major scrutiny and it's not hard to see why. Unable to get Republican committee chairs to call for committee hearings based upon an enormous amount of evidence for malfeasance on the part of the company, the Senate Democratic Policy…
September 20, 2006
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington has released a report on the 13 most corrupt members of Congress. On this page, you can click on each of the thirteen names and read the reasons why they're on the list. Here's the list:
Rep. Roy Blunt (R-MO)
Rep. Randy Cunningham (R-CA)
Rep. Tom…
September 20, 2006
Here's one where I'll probably be feeding the STACLU crowd, since I don't think they've said anything about this case. The ACLU is filing a suit in Arizona to stop a new state law that provides a tax credit for companies who contribute to a fund for tuition grants for low income students to attend…
September 20, 2006
Pam Spaulding has a post up about the most Corporate Equality Index from the Human Rights Campaign. As in previous years, the report documents a major increase in efforts by corporations to provide benefits and protections to gay and lesbian employees. 138 major companies received a perfect 100…
September 19, 2006
Agape Press got pretty much everything wrong in this report on the upcoming gay pride event in Jerusalem. Here's the full text:
Homosexual activists are making some demands of Israel's highest court in efforts to promote their deadly lifestyle in the Holy City. At a recent summer festival in…
September 19, 2006
You don't even need a comment on this story. It stands all by itself.
At a closed door meeting of the Armed Services Committee, Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) said that with better intelligence the South would have won the Civil War, today's Roll Call is reporting...
According to Roll Call's source,…
September 19, 2006
Who do you root for in a battle like this? I hate to agree with the Pope, but in this case he was right to pronounce that much of the Quran is "evil and inhuman" and that Islam was a religion spread by the sword. Of course, the same can be said about the Bible and Catholicism (and it is especially…
September 19, 2006
I wrote a few weeks ago about a lawsuit in the Doniphan school district in Missouri. The ACLU filed suit after finding out that the school was holding mandatory school assemblies with teachers leading prayer. The judge in the case has granted an injunction in the case as part of a negotiated…
September 19, 2006
You gotta love this article in Slate about the failure of government anti-pot propaganda.
Since 1998, the federal government has spent more than $1.4 billion on an ad campaign aimed primarily at dissuading teens from using marijuana. You've seen the ads--high on pot, stoners commit a host of…
September 19, 2006
Wired has a report on the attempt by Kenyan Pentecostals to get an exhibit of hominid fossils removed from the national museum there. It contains this idiotic quote:
"We are objecting to the message that the fossil exhibits represent the scientific evidence of human evolution," said Bishop Boniface…
September 19, 2006
Here's a website devoted to fighting the proposed gay marriage ban in Wisconsin. And the story on the front page demonstrates why the fight for gay marriage matters - because real people with real families suffer under the status quo. I'll paste a long story from that site below the fold:
Lynn and…
September 18, 2006
Man, Orin Kerr is working John Yoo like a speedbag right now. In his latest post at Volokh, he finds yet more evidence of Yoo's utter hypocrisy in defending the Bush administration's attempts to expand executive power. He provides this transcript of a portion of a talk Yoo gave at the Cato…
September 18, 2006
I reported last week that the organizers of a gay pride event were taking the city of Jerusalem to court in Israel for not granting them a permit for a rescheduled march. The court brought the two sides together and they reached agreement that the march would take place November 10th. Now they just…
September 18, 2006
If you want to see how perfectly meaningless the phrase "politically incorrect" (a phrase that actually was useful for the first couple weeks after it was invented) has become, check out this post by wingnut extraordinaire Debbie Schlussel. She's talking about a new Monopoly game which replaces…
September 18, 2006
Washington Monthly has an interesting set of essays by prominent conservatives on why they want the Republicans to lose in November. Joe Scarborough writes of the virtues of divided government during the 90s:
The fact that both parties hated each another was healthy for our republic's bottom line.…
September 18, 2006
John Yoo had an op-ed in the Times yesterday about what he terms Bush's goal of "reinvigorating the presidency" by asserting the authority to do whatever he thinks should be done regardless of what Congress and the Courts say. In that op-ed he writes:
The founders intended that wrongheaded or…
September 18, 2006
John Gorenfeld, who has done more than any other person I know of to expose the unbelievable activities of Rev. Sun Myung Moon, has a post at Talk2Action exposing the longstanding links between the Bush family and Moon. Bush the Elder has literally travelled all over the world, being paid millions…
September 18, 2006
Came across a link to this article by David Horowitz about "indoctrination" on college campuses (which really means "they're teaching things I don't like on college campuses"). He claims that the article is about "the active suppression of conservative ideas", and I know of a few genuine examples…
September 18, 2006
Bartholomew has a terrific post at Talk2Action about those who preach the prosperity gospel and the controversy it's creating even in the evangelical community. Last weekend while we were on our way to the Vinx show, Dan and I were talking about religious frauds like that and whether they could or…
September 17, 2006
As a follow up on the posts over the last few days about the emptiness of the phrase "judicial activism", I would urge those who are interested to read Keenan Kmiec's article on the subject from 2004. It's a thorough analysis of all the ways the term is used, and a history of its usage. At the end…
September 17, 2006
You're gonna love this. STACLU has a new mindless twit posting under the name bullldozetheaclu. Take a look at his first post (at least I assume it is, I've never seen the byline before):
I found a NEW way to
PROTEST THE LEFT!!
Number one... what do commies hate most of all? The Bible, God's Word!…