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A very good 10 minute video on the history of the commerce clause and how it’s the source of all our present federal governmental joy:

Curtsy: RC2.

Categories: History

…Here’s a good round up of what actually happened:

When he got to the “findings of fact,” he routinely stipulated and interpreted things in the most favorable light for those advancing same-sex marriage and called them “facts.” Here are examples of many of his facts and findings, which you are urged to read slowly [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

I’m not in a particularly good mood today and the weather (hot, muggy, stagnant) isn’t helping. Neither is this:

[Charles Krauthammer] On Robert Gibbs refusing to comment on the planned mosque at Ground Zero because it’s a “local” issue: It’s no more a local issue than 9/11 [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

John Derbyshire (an Englishman) mentions two criminals executed in Japan despite the leftyish Justice Minister’s abolitionist stance, and says at the end:

Executions in Japan are by hanging: The Japanese at least understand that capital punishment is an act of state violence, not a medical procedure, as in the dishonest and despicable system of [...]

Categories: Politics

A tale of two borders:

The Corner – Mark Steyn: That Ain’t Hay, It’s The USA

In effect, the sovereignty of the United States of America no longer applies in this territory – and John Morton and the Department of Homeland Security are entirely cool with that.

That’s the southern border. The northern one, the [...]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

Hitler, as “Downfall producer” orders a DMCA takedown from Brad Templeton on Vimeo.

Curtsy: RC2 in the comments of the last video (Hilariously, looking for that link, I saw “Hitler” and clicked on the wrong entry. I am, evidently, just ALL Hitler ALL THE TIME. And here I am on vacay in Maui. Weird, eh?). Man, [...]

Categories: Entertainment

More hardware store misery, too. John Stossel, via Mark Steyn:

For 15 years, the B & B Do it Center, a local hardware store in the small California town of Camarillo, has been putting out coffee and doughnuts for its morning customers. Actually longer, says owner Randy Collins; the previous owner did it [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

Macleans – The absurd trial of Geert Wilders, by Mark Steyn

Point A:

Geert Wilders, by contrast, is one of the most popular politicians in the Netherlands, and his fate is central to the future of his kingdom and his continent. He is an elected member of parliament—and, although he’s invariably labelled “far right” in [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

At Issue Journal – A City Without Billboards

Known as one of the world’s worst billboard jungles, Sao Paolo was rife with illegal billboards and signs. Advertisers had bought up virtually all available street and wall space in the city to hang their gigantic marketing messages. To earn money, some poor residents even sold [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

Italy’s common-sense legislation of the day (that was originally intended to be the title of this entry but I opted to go for the lame pun instead (standards, you know)):

Telegraph – Italy to jail people who set off avalanches Skiers and snowboarders who set off deadly avalanches in Italy could face imprisonment and hefty fines under [...]

Categories: Sports and Leisure

NYT – Many Successful Gay Marriages Share an Open Secret

As the trial phase of the constitutional battle to overturn the Proposition 8 ban on same-sex marriage concludes in federal court, gay nuptials are portrayed by opponents as an effort to rewrite the traditional rules of matrimony. Quietly, outside of the news media and [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

I finally had a half hour to watch the full Jon Stewart/John Yoo interview:

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Part 3: The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon – Thurs 11p [...]

Categories: War and Peace

Telegraph – Catholic ban on women priests ‘illegal under Harriet Harman equality bill’

The Roman Catholic ban on women entering the priesthood will become illegal under Harriet Harman’s controversial Equality Bill, according to Christian charity, CARE. A new report by the leading charity – backed by a legal opinion from a [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

CMR – Cold-Blooded Child Murder and the Loophole

I warn you, this story is very disturbing. In Virginia, a mother gave birth to her baby and then suffocated it. Virginia law enforcement is powerless to charge her.

Oh gross.

Categories: People and Current Events

…Between over there and over here:

BBC – Parking on private land is banned

A doctor has lost a court battle over parking tickets issued to a scooter parked on his land – because a judge ruled he only owns the subsoil. Dr Richard Dawood, parks his scooter outside his surgery in [...]

Categories: People and Current Events