tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32070752011-12-13T20:01:13.690-08:00Thoughtful, conservative opinions, wit and wisdom from the mind of Matthew Hoy.Matthewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07122163443903973521noreply@blogger.comBlogger33141100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3207075.post-1138684611235998942006-01-30T21:05:00.000-08:002007-05-20T23:36:17.839-07:00

Hoystory sells out: Having signed a contract I've officially become part of the JuiceCaster network. What does this mean to you? It means that you need to change your permalinks and bookmarks. Hoystory can now be found at Hoystory.com. For those who are curious about JuiceCaster or want to do a little light blogging without having to maintain your own site, check out JuiceCaster at

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Well, the reporter had to have it explained to him: So, it should come as little surprise that he felt the need to explain it to you.The latest Census Bureau report shows median prices for new residences sold in December fell 1.5 percent from the previous month to $221,800. Half of the homes sold for more than the median, the rest for less.Well, duh.

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Uninformed or a liar?: I watched "Fox News Watch" last night. The program is the Fox News Channel's media watchdog program and is unfortunately only 30 minutes long. If it were longer, I'd probably have even more ammunition proving media critic Neal Gabler, an Eric Alterman acolyte, to be at the very least hopelessly misinformed and at worse a liar.On yesterday's show, Gabler claimed that there

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Money for terrorists: There should be no doubt that the Palestinian Authority is a corrupt terrorist organization. It was when Yasser Arafat (condition stable after dying in a Paris hospital) was running things. It was when his Fatah party continued holding power after his death. And it will continue to be now that Hamas -- an organization that has as its primary goal the complete destruction of

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Crazy old lady in the attic: Helen Thomas, a left-wing opinion columnist, didn't get called on again in yesterday's press conference.Turns out Bush made a good call, because the moonbat was going to ask a dumb question.

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The gift that just keeps on giving: Massachusetts' junior senator, John Kerry, has come out urging a filibuster of Judge Samuel Alito.It's going to be interesting to see how the New York Times editorial page characterizes Kerry's move, since by their definition a filibuster is occuring right now.And if the Times changes their definition to fit the political calculus of the moment, I'll be firing

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"Debating" Alito: The Senate isn't really debating the qualifications of Sam Alito to sit on the Supreme Court so much as they are speechifying. I watched a couple hours of the Senate yesterday and have C-SPAN2 on now and I think everything that can be said about Alito has been said -- it's just that everyone hasn't yet had a chance to say it.Sen. Hillary Clinton's speech yesterday was

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Editorial writers in need of a clue: The New York Times editorial page is urging a filibuster of Judge Samuel Alito. Of course, since by the the Times' own definition only one vote is needed against cloture for a filibuster to occur, they'll likely get it.Frankly, the Times' histrionics on this issue just goes to show you how truly out of touch they are with "mainstream" America. And by "

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This is why O'Reilly drives me mad: The loudmouth doesn't do his homework: "[Justice Ruth Bader] Ginsburg was unanimously confirmed, I mean it was 98 to nothing."No, it wasn't. It was 96-3.

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More evidence that life isn't fair: This idiot is one year older than I am and has a weekly column at the steadily declining Los Angeles Times.For more on this moron, check here and here.

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Turley's failure to practice full-disclosure confirmed: Earlier this month I posed a question about whether or not Georgetown Law School professor Jonathan Turley was practicing full-disclosure in his television appearances attacking the NSA surveillance program.When the New York Times broke the NSA surveillance story, Turley went on some Fox News program -- I don't remember which one -- and

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You gotta be kidding me: ABC News's chief investigative correspondent, Brian Ross, has broken an incredible story about an ethics scandal rocking the Supreme Court. (via Volokh)At the historic swearing-in of John Roberts as the 17th chief justice of the United States last September, every member of the Supreme Court, except Antonin Scalia, was in attendance. ABC News has learned that Scalia

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A mirror for the lady: California's "moderate" senator, Dianne Feinstein, had this to say today on the 10-8 party-line vote in the Senate Judiciary Committee on future Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito.Sen. Dianne Feinstein (news, bio, voting record), D-Calif., said things are different from when the Senate considered Breyer and Ginsburg, who were confirmed 87-9 and 96-3 respectively. "There was

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Is Miramax trying to bury a pro-soldier movie?: I saw "The Great Raid" when it was in theaters. Though it wasn't the greatest WWII movie of the past decade, it was a solid film that cast American soldiers in a positive light. The film was shot in 2002, but sat on a shelf until last year. There was a lot of grumbling that with the Iraq War going on that Hollywood liberals weren't particularly

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End of the Spear: I just got back from watching "End of the Spear" in the theater. It's an excellent, moving film. Frankly, I'm even more befuddled now, after having seen the movie, than I was before at the complaints of some reviewers that the film is prosletyzing, preachy and in-your-face religious. Frankly, I can't imagine making a movie about missionaries that has less preachiness to it. It

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A number: Three Republicans voted against Ruth Bader Ginsburg for the Supreme Court. Nine Republicans voted against Stephen Breyer for the Supreme Court. Twenty-two Democrats (50 percent of Dems in the Senate) voted against Chief Justice John Roberts for the Supreme Court. Between 30 and 40-some Democrats will likely vote against Justice Sam Alito.On Fox News, former Democrat Sen. Dennis

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Surprised?: The San Diego Union-Tribune editorial page has been tacking in a more center right direction for the past couple of years, but not so far that they don't support a qualified candidate for the Supreme Court. Today's editorial on the Democrats and their Sen. Chuck "Credit Report" Schumer-led ideological litmus tests for judges includes some interesting bits from California's "moderate"

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USA vs. Canada: I went to the game this evening between the U.S. and Canada men's soccer teams. The game ended in a 0-0 tie. The biggest news of the night was soccer phenom Freddy Adu's first appearance on the men's national team, making him the youngest man to ever play for the team. Though he only played for a few minutes, he didn't do much in that time -- as evidenced by the scoreless tie.I

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Paul Begala vs. Deborah Howell: Paul Begala is a former Clinton hatchet-man. Deborah Howell is the Washington Post's ombudsman. I pit them against each other because something that Begala said this morning on "Meet the Press" conflicts with something Howell wrote in today's Post.First, Begala on the Abramoff scandal:Mr. Abramoff is a movement, partisan Republican. There's no evidence in all of

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Understandable mistake: San Diego State's basketball team has been so bad for so long that last night marked the first time in its history that they managed to defeat BYU three times in a row. SDSU swept BYU last season and in their first meeting of this season, and just a few minutes into the game the outcome of this one was never really in doubt.So, it was understandable, really, when

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End of the Spear: I plan on seeing "End of the Spear" Monday night, but decided to check out some of the reviews for it over at RottenTomatoes.com, a review aggregator. Needless to say, that hostility toward Christian and religious content isn't limited to Hollywood studios, but also appears to run rampant among movie critics. "End of the Spear" has an average rank of 5.5/10 and the box office

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Please, please, please: More and more Democrat senators are coming out against Judge Samuel Alito for the Supreme Court. Their reasons are myriad, shallow and downright silly. The Wall Street Journal is keeping a running tally of the Democrats here. Thus far only Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska has said he will support Alito.Here's hoping that fewer than five Democrats (and Vermont's Jim Jeffords, an

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Payola: I saw last week that Scripps Howard News Service had sacked Michael Fumento after he failed to disclose that Monsanto had spent $60,000 to help fund a book that he wrote back in 1999. Fumento finally responded to his firing Thursday, and I must confess that I'm underwhelmed by the entire scandal.Before I go any further, I believe Fumento should've disclosed in his article that Monsanto

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Yes, but: John Hinderaker over at Powerline notes that when the New York Times is leaked a document by someone antagonistic towards Democrats, that they suddenly find their ethics policy and describe the whistleblower leaker and his/her motivations.A copy of the report was obtained by The New York Times from someone sympathetic to the Barrett investigation who wanted his criticism of the Clinton

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Spin, spin, spin: Check out these dueling headlines, subheads and introductory paragraphs on Wednesday's Supreme Court ruling in an abortion case.First, The Washington Post:Justices Send Back Parent-Notification LawLower Court Must Modify N.H. Abortion Measure Instead of Striking It DownBy Charles LaneWashington Post Staff WriterThursday, January 19, 2006; Page A08The Supreme Court ruled

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Mr. Active Liberty, crime and punishment: The other day Clarence Ray Allen, a convicted murderer who ordered the deaths of four people who had testified him at trial was executed early Tuesday morning.Allen was 76 when he went to meet his maker, 59 years older than one of his murder victims, Josephine Rocha.As his scheduled execution neared, his lawyers claimed that executing the elderly man, who

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I'm surprised there's any horse left: Today's New York Times revisits the 2003 State of the Union address again and reveals nothing new.Before I quote the Times story, let me pose a hypothetical. Let's say that I want to get a date with actress Jessica Alba. Let's say that I go ahead and call her agent and try to arrange the date, or that I attempt to get terminal cancer, lie about my age and

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Pull the other one: Tom Daschle, formerly minority leader of the Senate, is considering a run for president.Of the United States.No, not the local Elks Lodge.President.Yes.Of the United States.Yes, he lost his re-election bid in 2004.Yes, he was minority leader at the time.Yes, he's lost his mind.

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All about the Benjamins: It's ironic that Benjamin Franklin's 300th birthday was yesterday and we once again encounter a big business behaving badly.Major League Baseball, which most recently switched from juiced balls to juiced players, is claiming that it owns the copyrights to its statistics. Your favorite player went 2-for-4 last night with a double? If you want to make note of the fact, then

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Dumber: The New York Times' decision to put its columnists behind the Iron Curtain of TimesSelect was dumb. Where once people like Nick Kristof, Paul Krugman and David Brooks played an influential role in the public debate, now they are seldom if ever discussed. Unread, they've become largely irrelevant.But if that move wasn't bad enough, now the Times has decided that you may not even e-mail any

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Mad = Nuts, not Mad = Angry: Probably the best article I've read on former Vice President Al Gore's speech yesterday comes from National Review's Byron York entitled "Al Gore's Mad Message."I stopped taking Al Gore seriously more than a decade ago, but the incredibly laughable part of Gore's speech -- and what convinced me that it really wasn't worth fisking the beejeezus out of -- was this: A

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Photobloggin': I got up early Saturday morning (and stayed up late, but that's story) and headed out to Ramona for the Wildlife Research Institute's Hawkwatch program.What did I learn? Birds fly south for the Winter. For a couple months, Ramona counts as "south." A 400mm (35mm film equivalent) lens is not nearly enough for serious birdwatching. After doing further research, you really need a

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Channelling Pat Robertson: New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin gets in touch with his inner nut. Mayor Ray Nagin suggested Monday that Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and other storms were a sign that "God is mad at America" and at black communities, too, for tearing themselves apart with violence and political infighting."Surely God is mad at America. He sent us hurricane after hurricane after hurricane,

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Who deserves sympathy?: I've made this point before, but The Washington Post's David Broder brings up the issue in his Sunday column and shows just how far out of touch with reality the liberal elite is.At no point that I heard did Alito express sympathy for the men and women who came to his court looking for help -- and were turned away. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) asked him about some of those

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They can't even get their corrections right: There's been a lot of hubbub around the blogosphere about this photo that was published on the New York Times Web site over the weekend. When first published, the Times referred to the artillery shell in the photo as "the remains of a missile." The blogosphere assailed the Times for its ignorance of things military, because it's obviously not a missile

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My favorite cartoonists: Are Cox and Forkum. They nail it with this one:It's a travesty that they're not syndicated.

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Even a stopped clock is right twice a day: Of course, that old adage only makes sense if you're talking about analog clocks. But it applies to this article in today's New York Times on a crisis pregnancy center in Louisville, Ky. The article is fair and balanced and doesn't allow the pro-abortion opponents to dominate the piece (since it isn't about them anyway).What's interesting is that it's

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Soft-selling terror ties?: Today's St. Petersburg Times has a largely superficial look at bloggers who closely watch American Muslims and mosques for terror ties.I must confess that of the bloggers mentioned in the story, only Robert Spencer, author and proprietor of JihadWatch.com, was a familiar name to me.The article is mainly a "he said, she said" piece with bloggers defending what they do

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Just out of curiosity: Let's say that you were sensitive to anti-religious bigotry. Would you be offended by the following conversation? Should you be?Person A: The apostles all had bad endings ... sawed in half.Person B: Ah, the good ol' days.Just askin'.

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For the record: If you haven't already read this, do it now. It's an account of how the New York Times didn't feel as outraged about the Clinton administration's wide-ranging Echelon spying program as they do about the Bush administration's comparatively limited surveillance program.I've often said of the Times editorial page that it is partisan, not principled. This just shows that the

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A waste of ink: The Washington Post's Robin Givhan critiques the Alitos' choice of dress. ThePost would be well-advised to send Givhan back to the typing pool and hire some better editors and reporters.

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Copyrighting threat letters: The Smoking Gun is largely famous on the Web for posting celebrity mug shots, but they also publish all sorts of legal documents and occasionally do some reporting. The latter is what prompted this letter from legal eagle Martin D. Singer.The letter threatening a lawsuit should The Smoking Gun go ahead with its report includes this paragraph.This letter is a

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Shooting fish in a barrel: The Angry Clam fisks the bejeezus out of a New York Times editorial. Check it out.Read the comments too, I particularly liked this one by nk:I believe that I became interested in Supreme Court nominations during the confirmation hearings of Judge Bork. I saw him being verbally abused, slandered and insulted by @##$%s who were not fit to carry his briefcase. Led by an

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Flight 93: The movie based on the heroes of United Flight 93 is slated for release on April 28. You can check out the trailer here. The trailer doesn't show you a whole lot of the film, instead focusing more on dialogue and sound effects. It has a greater emotional impact than it would if they'd shown clips from the movie. The official movie site is here. At first glance it doesn't appear that

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I know the feeling: One of the bloggers over at the Kotaku videogame site arranged for an e-mail interview with the world's worst director, Uwe Boll. I ended up sending Uwe Boll about 15 questions, none of which could be possibly answered with a single word. He responded within the day, and managed to answer most with little more.Nearly a decade ago, when I was working at the Lompoc Record, I

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No mistake: Death penalty opponents had held out hope that DNA testing would prove that the state of Virginia executed an innocent man more than a decade ago. They were wrong.The case reminded me this three-year-old item I wrote about the late Ann Landers and her opposition to the death penalty. For the record: She never responded to the letter I wrote her.

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For the serious photo enthusiast: Hasselblad is has announced a new 39-megapixel camera. Price: $39,000.I still like my Olympus E-500, which can be had for far less.

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Alito Day 3: I didn't get to watch the Samuel Alito hearings again. Two 10 1/2-hour days in a row are draining. It should hopefully slow down a little after tomorrow and I can really dig into this stuff.I've managed to do a little catch-up blog and newspaper article reading and a couple of things strike me about these hearings.First, hearings are never really hearings. They're not interested in

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The news media's double-standard: Slate's Jack Shafer nails it with regard to the kidnapping of Christian Science Monitor stringer and kidnap victim Jill Carroll. Media outlets colluded to hold the news of her kidnapping secret for several days in an effort to gain her freedom.Sitting on newsworthy information is an unnatural act for most reporters—some would say unprofessional—and nobody can

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Blogging status: Blogging may be light over the next few days as my workload at my paying increases substantially. I encourage you to check out the links on my blogroll -- especially Powerline and National Review -- for continuing coverage of the Alito hearings.

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When life gives you lemons...: make lemonade!NARAL's Goal:"To Convince Enough Senators That Alito Is Wrong For Our Country, We AreSetting A Goal Of Gathering 500,000 Petition Signatures To Deliver ToThe Senate." (NARAL Email, "Just 5 Days Left!" 12/5/05)NARAL's Result:"With The Help Of More Than 50 Volunteers We Were Able To ... Enter2,000 Signatures Into Our Activist Database From The 'Oppose

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I'd pay good money to see...: Byron York over at National Review had an excellent debunking of Sen. Ted Kennedy's "study" of Judge Samuel Alito's decisions.Especially amusing was these statements from Kennedy:n an era when too many Americans are losing their jobs or working for less, trying to make ends meet, in close cases Judge Alito has ruled the vast majority of the time against the claims of

Matthewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07122163443903973521noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3207075.post-1136878816409006692006-01-09T23:40:00.000-08:002006-01-09T23:40:16.516-08:00

Movie minute: I've already seen the Narnia movie, and nothing else in theaters right now interests me in the least. Having said that, there is yet another movie out based on a video game. The movie in question is entitled "Bloodrayne" and by all accounts the thing is a stinker. How much of a stinker? Well, it prompted this take on its initial weekend figures from DatelineHollywood.com:“According

Matthewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07122163443903973521noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3207075.post-1136877186521409422006-01-09T23:13:00.000-08:002006-01-09T23:13:06.690-08:00

I'm getting that Ryan Leaf feeling: Any NFL team that's thinking of drafting Marcus Vick might want to think hard and think twice.

Matthewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07122163443903973521noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3207075.post-1136857947603239782006-01-09T17:52:00.000-08:002006-01-09T17:53:12.516-08:00

Grant Goodman, dim bulb: I'd heard a brief mention of this last night on Matt Drudge's radio program as I was running to the store, but didn't see it running prominently on any Web site until this afternoon. Here's the big story that once again proves the utter contempt for privacy that the Chimpy McBushHitler administration holds: The Department of Homeland Security is opening mail coming into

Matthewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07122163443903973521noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3207075.post-1136803140801436802006-01-09T02:39:00.000-08:002006-01-09T02:39:00.980-08:00

Don't bring a butter knife to a gunfight: Local Democrat Rep. Bob "Castro's buddy" Filner met Lt. Smash.The result was predictable.

Matthewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07122163443903973521noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3207075.post-1136800754344744842006-01-09T01:59:00.000-08:002006-01-09T01:59:14.613-08:00

Rule of thumb: One of the adages that I often use as I make an effort to play well with others is: "Don't assume malice when stupidity will explain something."Case in point.

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Inconvenient facts: Despite what the mainstream media and America-hating zealots have been peddling for the past few years, Saddam Hussein was a terror supporter, and we're not just talking about his checks to the families of Palestinian suicide bombers.The Weekly Standard's Stephen Hayes has been badgering the Bush administration (something he shouldn't have had to do) to release documents found

Matthewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07122163443903973521noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3207075.post-1136710695800360302006-01-08T00:58:00.000-08:002006-01-08T00:58:15.963-08:00

Chuck Schumer's standards: If you haven't seen it yet, you should read this piece over at National Review on what Sen. Chuck "Credit Report" Schumer has to say about under what circumstances nominees to the Supreme Court have to answer more question.If you guessed that Republican nominees have to answer more than Democrats, you're right!

Matthewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07122163443903973521noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3207075.post-1136666439113282272006-01-07T12:40:00.000-08:002006-01-07T12:40:39.240-08:00

Is Jonathan Turley practicing full disclosure?: I caught Georgetown Law Professor Jonathan Turley on Fox News last night and it reminded me of something that I'd meant to write about a couple of weeks ago.When the New York Times broke the NSA surveillance story, Turley went on some Fox News program -- I don't remember which one -- and offered his opinion as a "Constitutional Law Professor" that

Matthewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07122163443903973521noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3207075.post-1136665523316313972006-01-07T12:25:00.000-08:002006-01-07T12:25:23.453-08:00

They just don't get it: Apparently hate-America-first loony liberals are taking their cue from the New York Times editorial page and demanding "proof" that the disclosure of the NSA surveillance program has hurt national security. As I noted earlier this week, the "proof" will likely arrive the next time we fail to stop an attack.Once again, Powerline has an answer to this foolishness.These

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Nonpartisan isn't all it's cracked up to be: Yesterday the Congressional Research Service, the nonpartisan research arm of Congress, released a report [PDF format] that argues that the NSA surveillance program is not as "well-grounded" legally as the president and his lawyers argue.While the CRS is nonpartisan -- that is, neither Democrat nor Republican -- it still has an unmentioned bias that is

Matthewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07122163443903973521noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3207075.post-1136579942840357112006-01-06T12:39:00.000-08:002006-01-06T12:39:03.036-08:00

More reporters and editors going to prison?: Lawyer Scott Johnson over at Powerlineblog.com has an interesting analysis of the law on the New York Times disclosure of the NSA's surveillance program. Johnson makes the case that Times reporters, editors and Publisher Arthur Sulzberger, Jr., violated federal law in publishing the story and could be prosecuted.Is the New York Times a law unto itself?

Matthewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07122163443903973521noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3207075.post-1136536084131921022006-01-06T00:28:00.000-08:002006-01-06T00:28:05.466-08:00

Why not all judges deserve respect: Judge Edward Cashman is a despicable human being who should be removed from the bench and publicly shunned.There was outrage Wednesday when a Vermont judge handed out a 60-day jail sentence to a man who raped a little girl many,many times over a four-year span starting when she was seven.The judge said he no longer believes in punishment and is more concerned

Matthewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07122163443903973521noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3207075.post-1136533328947960702006-01-05T23:42:00.000-08:002006-01-05T23:42:08.960-08:00

Don't forget to vote: Over at Little Green Footballs they're holding final voting for 2005's Idiotarian of the Year Award. The finalists are Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez, The New York Times and Cindy Sheehan.My vote will be going to the country's most disappointing newspaper.

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Public Service Announcement: I just wanted to alert any University of Virginia Law School students that you're not getting the best return on your educational dollar -- especially if you're taking Prof. Rosa Brooks constitutional law class.

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Idiots of the day: We've got a two-fer. Idiot No. 1 is Iranian Preisident Mahmoud Ahmadinejad who today expressed his desire that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon die.I think I can speak for Sharon and many Israelis and Americans by saying: "Right back at ya!"Idiot No. 2 is broadcaster Pat Robertson who suggested that God caused Sharon's stroke because he'd withdrawn from thge Gaza strip.In

Matthewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07122163443903973521noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3207075.post-1136448563586109092006-01-05T00:09:00.000-08:002006-01-05T20:18:18.893-08:00

Template problems: I didn't touch the dang thing, but all of the sudden my template has begun behaving inappropriately. If you're using Internet Explorer, you probably can't read all of the posts (I'd encourage you to switch to Firefox at this point). I don't know what caused this to occur, but I'm going to try to fix it. If you're an HTML guru and want to offer some advice, now would be a good

Matthewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07122163443903973521noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3207075.post-1136363102215811192006-01-04T00:25:00.000-08:002006-01-04T00:25:02.216-08:00

Michael Barone explains things to E.J. Dionne: From Barone's blog:These Democrats have, at best, lost the capacity to distinguish between opponents of the president who wish the best for America and opponents of the president who don't.Yes, E. J., "we have arrived at a dangerous time." And, no, I wouldn't use and haven't used the word "traitor" or the word "unpatriotic" in this connection. But it

Matthewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07122163443903973521noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3207075.post-1136362923499195312006-01-04T00:22:00.000-08:002006-01-04T00:22:04.103-08:00

Speaking of stupidity: If you're into self-abuse, check out this brain-dead editorial from the New York Times.To sum up for those of you who would rather not claw your eyes out: Valerie Plame leak bad; leaks that actually harm national security good.Illegal spying and torture need to be investigated, not whistle-blowers and newspapers.I've found very few competent, well-known, respected legal

Matthewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07122163443903973521noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3207075.post-1136361648984350302006-01-04T00:00:00.000-08:002006-01-04T00:14:29.910-08:00

International surveillance: That's what it is. It's not "domestic spying" no matter how many times the New York Times misuses the term. On Sunday, Times public editor Byron Calame wrote this piece describing how the Times bosses weren't interested in explaining why they held the surveillance story for a year and why they released it when they did.I disagree with Calame's decision to pour

Matthewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07122163443903973521noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3207075.post-1136361049891686702006-01-03T23:50:00.000-08:002006-01-03T23:50:50.033-08:00

Another future Lompoc resident: Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff pleaded guilty Tuesday to three felony counts of fraud, conspiracy and tax evasion. He could be sentenced for up to 11 years in federal prison. I hope that the public officials that participated in his schemes -- both Republican and Democrat -- end up spending quality time with him in the slammer.If all you read are today's stories

Matthewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07122163443903973521noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3207075.post-1136275658277306102006-01-03T00:07:00.000-08:002006-01-03T00:07:38.453-08:00

Extracurricular activities: Today's Wall Street Journal opinion page has an editorial on how the National Education Association spends members' dues.The article reinforces my belief that unions should be required to get permission from their members (opt-in rather than opt-out) before they spend money on lobbying or political candidates. But I'm also unsure if those classifications go far enough.

Matthewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07122163443903973521noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3207075.post-1136235539981799082006-01-02T12:58:00.000-08:002006-01-02T12:59:00.136-08:00

Hidden gem: On Friday, the editor of the Bedford Standard-Times -- the newspaper that was hoaxed by a college student claiming that Homeland Security agents had interviewed him after he tried to check out Mao's "Little Red Book" -- wrote an informative column explaining how it all happened.Two things: The paper continues to hide the identity of the hoaxster. No reason is given, but whatever the

Matthewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07122163443903973521noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3207075.post-1136170306362238972006-01-01T18:51:00.000-08:002006-01-01T18:51:46.396-08:00

The best insightful analysis here first: The Instapundit linked to this piece by Rand Simberg over at Transterrestrial Musings on the possible effects of The New York Times breaking the NSA surveillance program just prior to the 2004 presidential election.But perhaps they had the political acumen to realize that it might backfire on them. Consider--the Democrats were trying (however pathetically)

Matthewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07122163443903973521noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3207075.post-1136169968136297812006-01-01T18:46:00.000-08:002006-01-01T18:46:08.323-08:00

Some religions are more equal than others: That's what I take from this column by the Union-Tribune's Logan Jenkins. Last week, Sheriff's deputies discovered a dozen pilfered Baby Jesuses strewn in a parking lot.This discovery prompted some good and some bad from Jenkins. Jenkins is correct that this wasn't a religious hate crime, but a childish prank.However, Jenkins takes it a step further and

Matthewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07122163443903973521noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3207075.post-1136168664604124462006-01-01T18:24:00.000-08:002006-01-01T18:24:24.833-08:00

Covering Kwanzaa: On Saturday, the San Diego Union-Tribune ran a story on the founder of Kwanzaa -- a convicted felon -- speaking at a local library.What you won't find anywhere in the puff piece is word of Maulana Karenga's checkered past.Kwanzaa was invented in 1966 by Dr. Maulana “Ron” Karenga, a former black militant, Marxist and convicted felon. Claiming to have the unity of black people in

Matthewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07122163443903973521noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3207075.post-1136167707103022082006-01-01T18:08:00.000-08:002006-01-01T18:08:27.263-08:00

New laws: Because advancing freedom means more laws and regulations, California lawmakers have been busy and you're gonna need to watch yourself in 2006.My favorite new law is this one:BODY PIERCING- Makes performing body piercing on a minor punishable by a $250 fine, unless the minor's parent gives approval.Of course, this is in the same state that just two months ago failed to pass an

Matthewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07122163443903973521noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3207075.post-1136103325518450582006-01-01T00:15:00.000-08:002006-01-01T00:15:25.530-08:00

Happy New Years: My New Year's resolution: Never again allow my condo to reach "Pigsty Level 5." That would be the number of trash bags I just took to the dumpster.

Matthewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07122163443903973521noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3207075.post-1136102621099590382006-01-01T00:03:00.000-08:002006-01-01T00:03:41.273-08:00

Revising revisionist history: I took Advanced Placement U.S. History in high school, but not from my father. Nope, my instructor was a Gloria Steinem-ish feminist named Mrs. Lee. The course was taught like a college course -- we bought our textbooks and marked them up over the course of the year.One of those book was a pretty standard American History textbook much like most of you used in high

Matthewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07122163443903973521noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3207075.post-1136019879548800402005-12-31T01:04:00.000-08:002005-12-31T01:04:39.560-08:00

More on suveillance: This I really love. ABC News finally finds a "Constitutional scholar" who believes that the NSA's surveillance of international communications between al Qaeda agents overseas and people in the United States are illegal. The guy's name is David Cole. (Nope, I'd never heard of him either.) He's certainly no Lawrence Tribe or Cass Sunstein.What's the problem with this? Nothing

Matthewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07122163443903973521noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3207075.post-1136019464694700982005-12-31T00:57:00.000-08:002005-12-31T00:57:44.863-08:00

Photobloggin': OK, here's another Bandy Canyon picture. I'm hoping to get out on Monday to take some more pictures.

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Haul 'em off: It looks like New York Times reporters Eric Lichtblau and James Risen are going to be spending some time in the inside of a jail cell. Risen and Lichtblau are the two reporters whose bylines were atop the article revealing a code-word National Security Agency surveillance of al Qaeda. Now, Lichtblau and Risen can't be tossed in jail for the article; the Supreme Court has already

Matthewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07122163443903973521noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3207075.post-1135934219288011862005-12-30T01:16:00.000-08:002005-12-30T01:16:59.436-08:00

Good for a snicker: The best 30 names in Div I college basketball.

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All cultures are not created equal: Actually, this one is a combination of culture and religion.Nazir Ahmed appears calm and unrepentant as he recounts how he slit the throats of his three young daughters and their 25-year old stepsister to salvage his family's "honor" -- a crime that shocked Pakistan.The 40-year old laborer, speaking to The Associated Press in police detention as he was being

Matthewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07122163443903973521noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3207075.post-1135926618012388262005-12-29T23:10:00.000-08:002005-12-29T23:10:18.163-08:00

This just in: Videogames are not the same as real life. Follow the link for an amusing video of an older gamer discovering that just because you can do a lap a Laguna Seca in an Acura NSX in 1:41 in a video game doesn't mean that you can do the same thing in real life.

Matthewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07122163443903973521noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3207075.post-1135854202479041252005-12-29T03:03:00.000-08:002005-12-29T03:03:22.613-08:00

Morons everywhere: Last week over at OpinionJournal.com's "Best of the Web Today," James Taranto took note of an unfortunate choice of words on the Carl Zeiss Web site.Advertising Slogans German Companies Should Avoid"The final solution will be revealed on 01/18/06."--Carl Zeiss AG Web siteOn a photography message board I frequent, there was a post referencing the upcoming Zeiss announcement, and

Matthewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07122163443903973521noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3207075.post-1135849589750267992005-12-29T01:46:00.000-08:002005-12-29T01:46:29.876-08:00

Those four levels of editors: Shocker! Los Angeles Times reporter doesn't check her source and ends up publishing an April Fools quote as fact on Page A1 of the paper.

Matthewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07122163443903973521noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3207075.post-1135806224096837602005-12-28T13:43:00.000-08:002005-12-28T13:43:44.193-08:00

Why Barbara Boxer should shut her trap: Ever since the New York Times decided that they wouldn't get scooped by their own reporter and that in their enlightened judgement revealing a classified surveillance program wouldn't hurt U.S. national security, Sen. Barbara Boxer (Dumb-Calif.) has been crying "impeachment" to anyone who will listen.Well, I predicted it and now we've got a poll to back it

Matthewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07122163443903973521noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3207075.post-1135805167226674852005-12-28T13:26:00.000-08:002005-12-28T13:26:07.380-08:00

An explanation, but not an excuse: A couple of weeks ago, the New Bedford (Mass.) Standard Times published a story about Homeland Security agents visiting a 22-year-old UMass-Dartmouth student after he checked out Mao Zedong's "Little Red Book". All of the horror of Big Brother reared its head and the news briefly sobered up the senior senator from Massachusetts enough that he denounced the Bush

Matthewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07122163443903973521noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3207075.post-1135767981530593672005-12-28T03:06:00.000-08:002005-12-28T03:06:21.533-08:00

Photobloggin': I managed to hit the photo store before heading into work today. Let me start by saying that there was depressingly small selection of filters. I managed to pick up a circular polarizer, but graduated neutral density filters were nowhere to be found.Anyway, here's another landscape shot.

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A little bit of sanity: It looks like some Democrats "get" it, but it looks as though they don't have any pull.Some centrist Democrats say attacks by their party leaders on the Bush administration's eavesdropping on suspected terrorist conversations will further weaken the party's credibility on national security.That concern arises from recent moves by liberal Democrats to block the extension

Matthewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07122163443903973521noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3207075.post-1135663010169046062005-12-26T21:56:00.000-08:002005-12-26T21:56:50.306-08:00

Photobloggin': I was going to avoid the malls and instead go see what I could get at the former North County Camera (now Calumet) store in Escondido for my Olympus E-500. Tops on the list was a polarization filter and possibly a neutral density gradiant filter. Unfortunately, the store was closed -- perhaps the only store in the world that was closed today.So, filterless, I went for a drive with

Matthewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07122163443903973521noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3207075.post-1135659962852883602005-12-26T21:06:00.000-08:002005-12-26T21:06:02.986-08:00

This time it's personal: San Diego State University and CSU Long Beach are being sued -- and they're gonna lose. The Alliance Defense Fund is suing the two schools -- and the CSU system -- over their non-discrimination policies. You can find the complaint here. [PDF format]The CSU bars religious groups on campus from making sure that leaders/members share their faith and values. Imagine a Muslim

Matthewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07122163443903973521noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3207075.post-1135498047881805982005-12-25T00:07:00.000-08:002005-12-25T00:07:27.993-08:00

Merry Christmas:And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed. (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.) And all went to be taxed, F6 every one into his own city. And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judaea, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem; (

Matthewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07122163443903973521noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3207075.post-1135495751455071892005-12-24T23:29:00.000-08:002005-12-24T23:29:11.546-08:00

On timing: I just got finished watching this week's "Fox News Watch" and loony liberal Neil Gabler and American University prof Jane Hall both saw nefarious pro-conservative intent in the New York Times' decision to hold the story of President Bush's surveillance of al Qaeda operatives/affiliates inside the U.S. during the 2004 election.They may very well be right -- but for the wrong reasons.Do

Matthewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07122163443903973521noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3207075.post-1135493417739465522005-12-24T22:50:00.000-08:002005-12-24T22:50:17.880-08:00

Only the New York Times: This is like shooting fish in a barrel. Only the New York Times editorial page can write a Christmas editorial, keep "Christmas" out of the headline and not mention Jesus once.

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Duh: The reporting in the Wall Street Journal is usually really good. However, this [subscription required] has got to be the most stupid statement I've seen in any report on the new Xbox 360 and its effects on the videogame industry.The new Xbox 360 has been a big hit for Microsoft Corp. this season -- but for now, it's also contributing to pain in the games industry.The reason: Supplies of the

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No bias here: Editor & Publisher magazine -- the magazine of the newspaper industry -- doesn't even try to hide the bias of its editor Greg Mitchell.Headline: 'Impeachment' Talk, Pro and Con, Appears in Media at Last I've got no idea why impeachment is in quotes. Bad bias. Bad grammar.

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I concur: German companies need to be careful with their advertising. (via Best of the Web Today) "The final solution will be revealed on 01/18/06."--Carl Zeiss AG Web site

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