Month: August 2010

Is anyone reading in the Bookwormroom persuaded by Obama’s religious freedom argument for the ground zero mosque?  Do you think Obama’s and his party’s prospects will be harmed by his and their support for the mosque?  Personally, I suspect this is a potentially very powerful issue.  My position is that I’ll

I mentioned yesterday that I’m in trial.  The trial is in San Jose and I’ve spent a lot of time in the last three weeks walking the six blocks or so between the state superior courthouse and the federal courthouse (my boss is staying at the hotel right across the street

I’m an attorney and I’m three weeks into an exhausting trial (is there any other kind?).   Watching witness after witness take the stand and being absolutely certain that at least some of them are lying got me to thinking.  I’ve known several attorneys in my day who would not hesitate to

The question is simple.  In the long term, will the oil let loose in the Gulf be a temporary setback or the rationalization for permanent changes in our energy infrastructure?  Certainly, the left will use the spill/leak to argue that all off-shore drilling should be banned forever.  But they were

I promise to move on to a completely different topic tomorrow, but I want to finish off this series topics that kind of go together.  On January 1, 2009, Johannes Mehserle, a San Francisco/Oakland Bay Area Rapid Transit police officer shot and killed an unarmed black man named Oscar Grant

Several of the comments to yesterday’s entry noted, correctly, that people with guns can be roughly divided into law abiding citizens who own and use guns for law abiding purposes and criminals who use guns for criminal purposes.  Several pointed out, correctly, that the inner cities (of places like D.C.

Don Quixote here, since Bookie appear to be back to her iPhone.  As you may know I’m a libertarian on social issues and a conservative on economic and military issues.  I believe in a very broad definition of freedom and a vigorous defense of those freedoms.  But the one issue on

Starting in an hour or two, my access to the computer will be hit-and-miss.  I don’t know if there will be computers where I’m heading on vacation, and iPhone blogging is surprisingly tiring.  Seeing only that little screen and typing only with my thumbs seems to suck up a lot

I’m iPhone blogging and I can remember my HTML code, so you’ll have to forgive the ugly linking. All I can say is that Rick’s post about Time Magazine’s article on the Ground Zero mosur is a perfect snapshot of the drive-by in action: lies by commission and omission, carefully

I see Bookworm has found a computer, so I’ll save my contributions for another day, but I do have a quick question.  The other morning on the news scroll at the bottom of the screen of my favorite morning news show, this appeared: “Elena Kagan will be confirmed today as

Don Quixote here.  For those who don’t know, I’m Bookworm’s friend who blog-sits when she is off on vacation or otherwise unavailable.  I’m not nearly as well read as Bookworm and don’t blog at all except to help her out.  But what I do mostly here is throw out an

Watch.  Enjoy. Hat tip:  Danny Lemieux

MaryAnn Phillips is a truly good person.  And she got what she deserved.  So often, good deeds go unrewarded that it’s really nice when the opposite is true.