Will we see another like him? Roberts certainly is not cut from the same cloth. ===== WSJ 2/16/2016 By Michael W. McConnell Antonin Scalia, who died Saturday at age 79, was the most influential Supreme Court justice of the past 30 years. Not because he had the votes. He was influential because he had a clear, consistent, persuasive idea of how to... Read more
Archive for the ‘American Thought’ Category
Justice Scalia
February 17 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, US ConstitutionI respect him greatly. ========= WSJ 2/16/2016 From a Sept. 7, 1999, Journal op-ed by Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who died Feb. 13 at age 79, on the most significant development in the law over the past millennium: My selection of democratic self-government as development of the millennium assumes— perhaps optimistically— a continuing appreciation of the need for these structural checks. It... Read more
The New Schumer Precedent
February 17 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Party Politics, The Left, US ConstitutionReally, now… ====== WSJ 2/17/2016 Supreme Court vacancies tend to showcase political consistency—or lack thereof. So it is amusing to watch how thoroughly New York Senator Chuck Schumer has been reduced to self-parody as he tries to excuse his 2007 demand that Democrats reject, sight unseen, any of George W. Bush’s nominees “if—God forbid—there is another vacancy under this President” during the last... Read more
Let’s Stop It Before It’s Too Late
February 10 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, ISIS, Islam, Losing Freedom, Politically correct, Radical Islam, The Left, Western CivilizationFrom my friend Bob Ruble. If you don’t ready anything else today, read this. ============= More than 120 people braved the snow and ice Monday to rally in front of the Missoula County Courthouse, protesting an effort by the Obama administration and its army of community organizers to plant foreign “refugees” into small cities in western Montana. One of the speakers was a... Read more
An Alternative Black History Month
February 10 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Party PoliticsNYT? Won’t read this there… ======== By Jason L. Riley, WSJ 2/10/2016 Black History Month, which began as Negro History Week some 90 Februarys ago, was meant to be temporary. Its founder, historian Carter G. Woodson, envisioned a time when black history would be incorporated with American history and no longer require separate recognition. Woodson’s optimism was warranted. Americans today are led by a... Read more
