Here’s an interesting, under-reported twist on Sonia Sotomayor’s judicial record: she’s apparently a conservative when it comes to criminal justice.
The Wall Street Journal reports today:
New York criminal-defense lawyers say she is surprisingly tough on crime for a Democratic-backed appointee — a byproduct, they believe, of her tenure as
The Iowa Independent reports:
Steve Deace, who hosts a drive-time show on WHO-AM, said society helped create Scott Roeder, the man in custody for the killing of Tiller Sunday morning, by refusing to stop abortion by legal methods.
“Maybe the fact that we have a
The governor of Alaska writes a soaring endorsement of the Republican National Committee chairman on her political action committee’s Website:
We have another voice in Washington, DC – a man who understands what Alaskans believe: less centralized government control, restrained budgets, more opportunity for development, and fewer taxes. Today,
Florida-based Ron Sachs Communications is out with a poll of the state’s U.S. Senate and gubernatorial races, showing Gov. Charlie Crist (R-Fla.) is the early leader for the open Senate seat and Republican Attorney General Bill McCollum narrowly ahead in the race to replace Crist.
Crist leads former state More…
Some quick fun with the transitive property. Item one:
Nearly half of all Americans — 48 percent — disapprove of how [Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.)] is handling her job as Speaker of the House in a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll released Monday, while 39 percent approve of her performance
The Ron Paul quarters of the GOP are buzzing about Sen. Lindsey Graham’s (R-S.C.) speech to this past weekend’s state party convention — a combative performance in which he took on conservative activists and Paul supporters. One heckler yelled out: “You’re a hypocrite!” Graham snapped back: “I’m a winner, pal!” More…
The Arkansas governor-cum-TV host’s poem “Fancy Nancy” gets at how rote the Republican calls for the Speaker of the House to step down are becoming. Huckabee calls for Pelosi to “resign and get out of here.”
If forced to believe whether the CIA and her colleagues in Congress are
The former Speaker of the House goes the Karl Rove route and gets a weekly column in a conservative editorial shop, at the Washington Examiner.
“I am excited and pleased to be joining The Examiner, which is among the bright new stars of American journalism,” Gingrich said. “This
The conservative GOP leader from Arizona blurts out that “Rush Limbaugh is a television personality.” The journalistic ballet, of switching on Limbaugh’s show at noon and seeing whether he reacts, goes on.
It would still be a surprise if Limbaugh takes this bait. While he brought numerous members of More…
I just talked to Frank Llewellyn, the national director of the Democratic Socialists of America, who was understandably nonplussed by the Republican National Committee’s “Democrat Socialist Party” resolution.
“It’s objectionable,” said Llewellyn, “because they’re giving socialism a bad name by associating it with the Democrats, who are the More…
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