JACK GOLDSMITH gives it to the Judiciary Committee.
Archive for 2010
July 2, 2010
THEY TOLD ME IF I VOTED FOR JOHN MCCAIN, WE’D BE TALKING ABOUT RESTORING THE DRAFT. And they were right!
ED MORRISSEY: How did four Supreme Court justices wind up arguing against the Constitution? I’m so jaded, I’m relieved that it was only four. . . .
BYRON YORK: Portland police: We messed up the Gore sex investigation.
Gore’s biggest bit of bad news: The story is being reported in the entertainment media. You know, the ones most people actually pay attention to . . . .
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR: Top five bottlenecks in the Gulf oil spill response.
RICHARD FERNANDEZ: A Pure Exercise in the Abuse of Power.
“RECOVERY SUMMER!” Evidence mounts that recovery is hitting the skids.
July 1, 2010
NOT MUCH LOVE IN THE COMMENTS for this piece on “climate villains.”
Related: Dr. Strangegore, or How the International MSM Learned to Stop Worrying and Abandon Objectivity.
HACK, smacked. “But why is he on my case? ‘Ann Althouse continues to blog about Journolist; appears to have no idea what it was,’ he says. Well, then, release the archive so I can cure my terrible ignorance. That’s all I want.”
READER AND NOVELIST C.J. BURCH has decided to experiment with Kindle publishing. Here’s his first product.
UPDATE: Here’s a blog report on the process.
SOME CYNICS MIGHT SUSPECT THAT POLITICS IS INVOLVED: EPA rejects air permits of 122 Texas plants.
IN HAWAII, a sprawling “Obamaville.” “Homeless camps cover 50 acres, from Waipio Point, around Middle Loch to Pearl City. . . . Girls at the Waipio Soccer Complex walked into the women’s bathroom a few months ago and found a naked woman bathing in the bathroom sink, said Michele ‘Bud’ Nagamine, who runs the 25-team Leahi Soccer Club that practices and plays at the soccer complex. Boys who went into the men’s bathroom also found a naked man bathing in the sink, she said.”
And in New Jersey: “One New Jersey shore town has tried pleading, threatening and reasoning with a group of homeless squatters camping in the woods. Now the township of Lakewood is suing them. A lawsuit filed Monday against dozens of squatters aims to force them to move from their encampment into temporary housing the township says it is pursuing for them.”
PRAYING FOR CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS: “I know he doesn’t want me to and I know he thinks it is useless but, Christopher Hitchens, I am praying for you.”
THE HILL: House Democrats Pass “Budget Enforcement Resolution” Instead Of A Budget. Real profiles in courage, these guys.
JIM TREACHER CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH: “The New York Post has an audio translation. It’s just boring business stuff. I was hoping for something like, ‘I am luffink Amerikanski men which makes lots of typink on blog, to be bringink him the beers and sex while he play the Xbox.'”
ASININE OR AWESOME? A turbine-powered Porsche 928.
PJTV: Bill Whittle: Ramming Speed: Rough Seas in the Culture War Require a Steady Hand at the Helm.
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STEREOTYPING PEOPLE by their favorite authors.
TOM MAGUIRE ON the Al Gore scandal and DNA evidence. Plus this: “If Dick Cheney were ever accused of something similar, we would hear nothing else. Well, the rest of you would – I would have my fingers in my ears.”
UPDATE: Reader Martin Shoemaker writes:
As much it amuses me to see Vice President Gore get his time in the hot seat, I think commentators need to remember:
* There’s no proof yet that DNA evidence exists.
* If DNA exists, there’s no proof yet that it’s Vice President Gore’s.
* If the DNA is Vice President Gore’s, that proves sexual contact. It doesn’t prove unwanted sexual contact, and it certainly doesn’t prove unlawful sexual contactDNA or no DNA, this case will still turn on he said/she said. At most, the DNA would weaken his case if he denied that anything sexual at all happened. And you’ll note, he and his attorneys have issued no such denial.
All the cards are in Vice President Gore’s hands at this point. If there’s no DNA, or if the tests come back negative, he can say not a word. This flap will blow over, and he’ll recover his image just a little bit by staying out of the fray. If the tests come back positive, he’ll admit that in the midst of a troubled marriage, he may have read too much into a massage, perhaps due to alcohol; but he’ll deny it was more than that, and there will be no evidence. No prosecutor would dare take that to court.
This is theater, nothing more.
Well, as a great man once said, have a sno-cone and enjoy the show. ‘Cause it’s all bozos on this bus.
TEN REASONS WHY sex is good for you.
SIX FAMOUS WOMEN who have been slapped with restraining orders.
UPDATE: “Did so.”
ANDREW KLAVAN: Limp Economy? Flaccid Philosophy? Diagnosis: Electile Dysfunction.
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