The Washington Post’s tempest in a teapot for Tuesday is over the fact that Judge Alito participated in a case in which the Vanguard mutual fund group was involved. Alito at the time owned somewhere between $390,000 and $975,000 in shares in various Vanguard funds. The other litigant was one of his fellow shareholders whose […]

Some of the reaction to the withdrawal of the Miers nomination seems to, barely, miss the point. Hopefully the President’s advisors get the message better than some of the media. The Miers withdrawal is deeply embarrassing to Bush, who should be able to get his pick of Supreme Court justices with a 55-seat Senate GOP […]

Apparently, in Florida at least one person thinks it’s the government’s job to make sure she gases up before a hurricane comes in and makes gas deliveries a bit problematic. “This is like the Third World,” said Claudia Shaw, who spent several hours in a gas line. “We live in a state where we suffer […]

SIS aka MI6, Britain’s foreign intelligence service, unveiled a website this week… The official website of the British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) Welcome to the official website of the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS). As Britain’s secret service, SIS provides the British Government with a global covert capability to promote and defend the national security and […]

The Federal Election Commission chose to ignore the billionaire George Soros’s funding of MoveOn and other liberal groups and instead target a grass roots organization. Interestingly the first lawsuit is against an organization that has criticized Senator McCain on many issues. If there’s any remaining doubt that McCain-Feingold was really intended to further entrench big […]

Chief Justice Rehnquist dies at home Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist died this evening at his home in suburban Virginia, said Supreme Court spokeswoman Kathy Arberg. A statement from the spokeswoman said he was surrounded by his three children when he died in Arlington. “The Chief Justice battled thyroid cancer since being diagnosed last October […]