I noted in a post yesterday Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer's views on having a "pragmatic" view of the Constitution. Guess this is what he meant:
But Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer told me on “GMA” that he's not prepared to conclude that — in the internet age — the First Amendment condones Koran burning.
The State Department included a Justice Department lawsuit against Arizona's immigration law into a United Nations human rights report to show how U.S. rule of law can be an example to the world, a State Department spokesman said Monday.
Emory Stephens laughs a lot, easily and genuinely, as if the joke is not on him.
Is it?
At $3 per haircut, this 92-year-old barber cheats himself out of all kinds of income -- and has for years and years and years.
His is a business that is nowhere near business-like, for sure. Otherwise, it might have a sign
You remember the midlife crisis. I certainly remember mine, vaguely. A lot of 20-somethings today don't believe in putting things off, so they're having quarter-life crises. Well, actually, they do believe in putting things off: They're taking an awfully long time to grow up, A New York Times article informs us.
You can say the Iraq War was wrong. You can say it was expensive. You can say the money spent on it could have been better spent elsewhere or not at all. But you can't say the war helped ruin our economy:
I'm guessing there will be a mixed reaction from conservatives on this:
SOUTH BEND — Republican Sen. Richard Lugar said Wednesday that he plans on seeking a seventh term in 2012 in a bid that would extend his run as the longest-serving U.S. senator in Indiana history.
After speaking about world affairs and taking questions during a luncheon at The Summit Club, a private dining club in South Bend, the 78-year-old Lugar said he will run again, though he has not formally announced his candidacy.
The New York Times does an analysis of the Supreme Court that starts out trying to be scary (if you're a liberal, anyway):
In those five years, the court not only moved to the right but also became the most conservative one in living memory, based on an analysis of four sets of political science data.
Lots of disagreement out there with my idea that, in voting to affirm Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court, Sen. Richard Lugar is playing by the old rules of civility, all but conceding the game to the people playing by the new, tougher rules. The Richmond Palladium-Item, for example, says those who would label Lugar a turncoat or a traitor "offer demonstrable proof of an electorate so rigidly partisan that they have helped to make governing an untenable task."
Before I forget, this month marks my fifth blogiversary. The stats page tells me this is my 7,299th post. Whew.
I was reading through some of the posts for that first month and came across my take on the Supreme Court confirmation hearings of John Roberts:
