Bookworm on Jun 26 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Gun control, Judges, Judicial activism, Strict constructionism
Just in time for July 4th, the Supreme Court confirmed that the Second Amendment says what it means and means what it says.
I personally am not now, nor have I ever been, a gun owner. I keep meaning to go the local firing range and take lessons (operating on the principle that, since I’m surprisingly [...]
Bookworm on Jun 25 2008 | Filed under: Government
Two anecdotes, and then I’ll get to my point (and the anecdotes do relate to that point):
Anecdote 1: I get my medical care from Kaiser and feel that I get great care. Within its four walls, Kaiser is an extremely efficiently run organization that takes surprisingly good care of vast numbers of people. Kaiser has [...]
Bookworm on Jun 19 2008 | Filed under: Crime and punishment, Judges, Judicial activism
The alternative title for this post would have been: You’re in prison, not a hotel. From Best of the Web Today:
He Wouldn’t Hurt a Fly
Henry Boateng is an inmate in a Massachusetts State prison. He went to court arguing that his rights were being violated. Yesterday, a federal judge agreed:
Boateng, who has changed his name [...]
Bookworm on Jun 16 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Judges
No, Obama has not spoken lovingly about mass murderer Che Guevara. However, another prominent Obama supporter has made the two equivalent in a very obvious way: he has displayed in his office side by side posters of Obama (that socialist, artsy-fartsy looking poster) and (who else?) Che. Check out this Webloggin post [...]
Bookworm on May 23 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Gay marriage, John McCain, Judges, Judicial activism
Marriage is not, and never has been, a personal right. In Western society, it operates at two levels. First, it functions at a religious level. This is a deeply personal level, because in every religion, marriage is, or is equivalent to, a sacrament. In America, you have the Constitutional right to be married in the [...]
Bookworm on May 21 2008 | Filed under: Judges, Law, Uncategorized
I went to law school in the days when students still took notes by hand. When I started practicing law, secretaries had computers at their desks, but no lawyers did. My first law firm used a “Wang” word processing system, which was really nothing more than a typewriter on the screen. The [...]
Bookworm on May 16 2008 | Filed under: Gay marriage, Judges, Judicial activism
Cliff Thier talks about the far-reaching implications of the Court’s (and the government’s) “fundamental rights” language.
The WSJ’s editors take on the election ramifications of the decision — a bit of unexpected, and undeserved, good luck for Republicans in a terribly managed campaign season.
As was to be expected, National Review quickly put together a whole catalog [...]
Bookworm on Apr 03 2008 | Filed under: African-Americans, Crime and punishment, Judges
Here’s the headline: “Judge admits mistake in kicking whites out of court.” Upon reading that headline, I assumed that this was going to be the familiar story about some crackpot anti-white judge who issued a ruling, a la the Jeremiah White mode of thinking, that blacks can’t get a fair trial with whites [...]
Bookworm on Mar 12 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Judges, Judicial activism, Law
Edward Whelan, after pointing out that a President Obama would have the potential to appoint up to six new Supreme Court justices, looks at Obama’s rhetoric about the Constitution and the law, and uses that information to explain clearly what type of justices Obama would appoint:
[I]n setting forth the sort of judges he would appoint, [...]
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