Are Bush’s Judges Being Confirmed As Often as Prior Presidents?
Here’s a graph from The Economist (Hat Tip: Prof. Bainbridge
Your Tax Dollars Supporting Our Enemies
Put Down Your White Man’s Burden, Support Iraqi Resistance
UNCONDITIONALLY-that’s the way I support the Iraqi Resistance these days….
The first step towards adopting such a plan of action is understanding why supporting Iraqi resistance groups is the imperative flipside of our support for US troops-even if we don’t know, understand, or agree with the politics of the resistance groups themselves….
The author Liz Sperber supports and calls for wide and unconditional support of Iraqi insurgents who do kill civilians (and most of the people they kill are people uninvoled with the US), behead people on TV, and so forth. Liz is using her state-funded computer account, writing her screen in a university-run and funded newspaper, and using the state-funded web site of the University to say “Bravo!” to people cutting off heads in Iraq. Maybe her dean should know that a student spends her time at Brown committing Treason.
You can contact him at 401-863-2573 or paul_armstrong@brown.edu.
Quote on the EU Constitution
This 325 page behemoth is impossible to read and figure out. Imagine our own Constitution where phrases of sentences provide decades of debate. Now multiple that by 30. That’s the EU Constitution. This quote I think sums it up best and why France is poised to turn it down (in even higher numbers now that Chirac has come out and stumped for it).
“I believe that it is fundamentally undemocratic to propose a constitution that is so difficult to read,” Chouard writes.
From: Yahoo news - Weekly Standard
31 Posts and Climbing for COTV #136
I have 31 so far and the frequency has picked up… if you want in, submit by midnight tomorrow. Guidelines are here
Civility in Politics
Fellow Illinois blogger ILPundit writes on the perceived problem he/she has on the GOP’s claim to restore civility to politics. I could say the same on the Dem side with all the carping about flags after 9/11, or for that matter, the phrase “religious Right” which isn’t exactly meant as a descriptor but an insult. Or even this from the head of the Democratic party. But the fact is both sides are pretty petty and carp back and forth because in the end it makes the news. Intelligent discussion on both sides is lacking because most of the intelligent people don’t want to try discussing anymore (see Conservative Professors at U of I) because the “political discussion” tends to be populated more by kooks than anything else.
