Columnist Pat Buchanan is not impressed with Indiana U.S. Rep. Mike Pence's illegal-alien offering, which he calls a stealth amnesty plan:
Which brings us to the Pence plan, named for the conservative congressman from Indiana who heads the House Republican Conference and was the 2005 Man of the Year to the conservative Human Events weekly.
A man is suing an auto-parts store for assault and battery after he attempted to hold up the business and employees responded by beating him with a metal pipe.
The scary thing is that we should not assume he will lose his suit.
The Supreme Court is "fine-tuning" the death penalty again:
The Supreme Court rules that death-row inmates may challenge lethal injection as an unnecessarily cruel -- and thus unconstitutional -- punishment. The unanimous decision came on the same day the court expanded inmates' ability to challenge their convictions in federal court based on new DNA evidence.
This can't possibly be controversial -- Louisiana legislators want to put the Ten Commandments into a state law, but they don't want to offend Jews or Protestant or Catholic Christians, so they're spending all this time trying to get the wording just right. Yes, legislators have actually taken it upon themselves to rewrite the Ten Commandments. I wonder if they might end up with something like this:
1. Only me, OK?
2. I mean it, not even a photo or a line drawing of somebody else.
Boston Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby is right about the gay-marriage debate should be approached:
Pro, con, or undecided, Americans should be able to discuss something as serious as redefining marriage without resorting to slander and ad hominem attacks. There are sincere, compassionate, and thoughtful people on both sides of this issue. How can you tell who they are? They aren't the ones calling people bigots.
Susette Kelo, the namesake of the worst Supreme Court decision in recent memory, is one step cloer to being evicted from her property. And there is, of course, no remorse from the government thugs who are stealing the property:
New London Mayor Beth Sabilia says, "The City Council has authorized the Director of Law to begin the process to obtain the properties at Fort Trumbull."
Why is the fact that the Supreme Court is hearing fewer cases seen as a problem? "Supreme Court Faces Shortage of Cases," the headline says, and:
Justices are running well behind in filling their argument calendar for the term that begins in the fall. They have accepted 18 cases, compared with 27 by this time last year and 32 in 2004.
Many of the cases they have agreed to consider are technical rather than potentially groundbreaking.
When I read about Mike Pence, truly a conservative in most respects, dissing the U.S. Senate's amnesty plan disguised as a guest-worker program, then offering his alternative, which calls for a stronger border-security program, followed by another version of an amnesty program that he says is not an amnesty program, I thought I had seen the final proof that Washington.
Remember "The Bonfire of the Vanities"? Looks like it might be happening in real life:
But when a petty-tyrant prosecutor has perverted and prolonged the legal process without disclosing his supposed evidence, and when academics and journalists have joined in smearing presumptively innocent young men as racist, sexist brutes -- in the face of much contrary evidence -- it's not too early to offer tentative judgments.
The United States Supreme Court is charged with judging the laws of the United States through its interpretation of the United States Constitution. Therefore, any law of any foreign country is completely irrelevant to the process. And there is no such thing as "international law" in any case. So why is anything Justice Scalia says even the least bit controversial?
