The Associated Press is reporting that Supreme Court Justice David Souter will soon announce his retirement.
Given the Court's current makeup, do you see this having any impact on its present slightly right tilt?
Also, given how few of former President George W. Bush's district court nominees were approved in his two terms, will the Republicans behave like the obstructionist Democrats during the upcoming appointment proceedings, or roll over and give Barack Obama everything he wants?
Exit question: despite Souter's liberal views, if he was going to retire so soon after a transfer of power in the White House, didn't he owe it to the man who nominated him to allow President Bush to appoint his successor, or does ideology trump gratitude and loyalty these days? ...
The Associated Press is reporting that Supreme Court Justice David Souter will soon announce his retirement.
Given the Court's current makeup, do you see this having any impact on its present slightly right tilt?
Also, given how few of former President George W. Bush's district court nominees were approved in his two terms, will the Republicans behave like the obstructionist Democrats during the upcoming appointment proceedings, or roll over and give Barack Obama everything he wants?
Exit question: despite Souter's liberal views, if he was going to retire so soon after a transfer of power in the White House, didn't he owe it to the man who nominated him to allow President Bush to appoint his successor, or does ideology trump gratitude and loyalty these days? ...
The Associated Press is reporting that Supreme Court Justice David Souter will soon announce his retirement.
Given the Court's current makeup, do you see this having any impact on its present slightly right tilt?
Also, given how few of former President George W. Bush's district court nominees were approved in his two terms, will the Republicans behave like the obstructionist Democrats during the upcoming appointment proceedings, or roll over and give Barack Obama everything he wants?
Exit question: despite Souter's liberal views, if he was going to retire so soon after a transfer of power in the White House, didn't he owe it to the man who nominated him to allow President Bush to appoint his successor, or does ideology trump gratitude and loyalty these days? ...
The Associated Press is reporting that Supreme Court Justice David Souter will soon announce his retirement.
Given the Court's current makeup, do you see this having any impact on its present slightly right tilt?
Also, given how few of former President George W. Bush's district court nominees were approved in his two terms, will the Republicans behave like the obstructionist Democrats during the upcoming appointment proceedings, or roll over and give Barack Obama everything he wants?
Exit question: despite Souter's liberal views, if he was going to retire so soon after a transfer of power in the White House, didn't he owe it to the man who nominated him to allow President Bush to appoint his successor, or does ideology trump gratitude and loyalty these days? ...
CBS's Katie Couric and ABC's Dr. Tim Johnson tried to provide cover Thursday night for Vice President Biden's gaffe about the swine flu threat, which forced two cabinet secretaries and he White House spokesman to correct his advice to avoid planes and subways, as Couric asked an expert to confirm “that's not terrible advice in certain situations, is it?” and Johnson spun it into a positive, proposing: “In an ironic way, the reaction -- the information that has come out in reaction -- has been very informative.”
Talking with Dr. Jennifer Ashton, Couric pointed out how “the Vice President created a bit of a brouhaha when he said he would tell his family to avoid confined public spaces, but that's not terrible advice in certain situations, is it?” ...
At the recent media celebration of Barack Obama's first 100 days as President, Barack Obama made the bold claim that he created or saved over 150,000 jobs.
This budget builds on the steps we’ve taken over the last 100 days to move this economy from recession to recovery and ultimately to prosperity.
We began by passing a Recovery Act that has already saved or created over 150,000 jobs and provided a tax cut to 95 percent of all working families.Source
This would be wonderful news, if it were true. Unfortunately, no one seems to be able to figure out where he got these numbers from. They just don't seem to add up to the facts.
So where do they get away with a number like that?
Actually, ...
Although historians have debated the issue for decades, Jon Stewart has no question about this controversial matter: former President Harry S. Truman is a war criminal for dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in 1945.
Such was discussed on Tuesday's "The Daily Show" with the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies' Clifford May in a lively exchange about interrogation procedures.
Although it was not aired on Tuesday due to the length of their extraordinary conversation, the entire interview was posted at Comedy Central's website in two parts (video part II embedded below the fold, relevant section at 5:40, h/t Hot Air):
The Daily Show With Jon StewartM - Th 11p / 10cCliff May Unedited Interview Pt. 2...
Although historians have debated the issue for decades, Jon Stewart has no question about this controversial matter: former President Harry S. Truman is a war criminal for dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in 1945.
Such was discussed on Tuesday's "The Daily Show" with the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies' Clifford May in a lively exchange about interrogation procedures.
Although it was not aired on Tuesday due to the length of their extraordinary conversation, the entire interview was posted at Comedy Central's website in two parts (video part II embedded below the fold, relevant section at 5:40, h/t Hot Air):
The Daily Show With Jon StewartM - Th 11p / 10cCliff May Unedited Interview Pt. 2...
They're rude, annoying, smug and biased. And to Time magazine's managing editor, they're "angels?" Richard Stengel called the four-fifths liberal hosts of ABC's "The View" on April 30 "Angeles of Democracy" in an appearance on the show. As he discussed the release of "The Time 100: The World's Most Influential People, " which includes all five women, and lavished praise on them:
"Part of the reason you guys are on there, you're like America's water cooler. People come around, they listen to you. You start, you're like the angels of democracy. You start people talking about the things that are most important in society."
Things like sex, porn and sex toys, sex ed for five-year-olds, and ...
By Kurt Schlichter for Big Hollywood.
Watching “24″ this week, I realized that our number one threat is multi-national corporations with battalions of hired killers on the payroll. Similarly, “Michael Clayton,” “The International,” the new “State of Play” and many others have taught me that big companies assassinate their rivals, whistleblowers, policemen and random passersby with astonishing regularity.
I wish. But then, I’m a trial lawyer and I could use a new house.
Sadly, the real world is much more esoteric than the portrait Hollywood paints, and the real threat is not quite so picturesque. Instead of corporate death squads composed of hardboiled mercenaries with high tech assault rifles, the real killers are boring jihadi doofuses with dusty AKs, booby-trapped Fiats and the occasional boxcutter.
Let’s stop and check the numbers. Real ...
