Here's President Barack Obama's reaction to the Supreme Court's immigration ruling, in full: I am pleased that the Supreme Court has struck down key provisions of Arizona's immigration law. What this decision makes unmistakably clear is that Congress must act on comprehensive immigration reform. A patchwork of state laws is not a solution to our broken immigration … [Read more...] about White House Statement: Obama’s Reaction to Supreme Court Immigration Ruling
What Does Having It All Even Mean?
WASHINGTON - Gayle King of CBS "This Morning" handled the story that began swirling last week brilliantly today when she started the segment by asking, paraphrasing here, What does "having it all" even mean? The story revolves around a woman in a history-making position, once thought a dream job, while also having healthy teens and a husband who supports your career, comes out … [Read more...] about What Does Having It All Even Mean?
Scalia’s Anger at Obama on Immigration
Isn't it time to ask the real, lingering question? Isn't it about time for Justice Antonin Scalia to get his own show on Fox News? Talking Points Memo: In his aggressive defense of Arizona’s immigration law, Justice Antonin Scalia pointedly went after President Obama’s recent immigration policy shift and accused him of deliberately refusing to enforce immigration … [Read more...] about Scalia’s Anger at Obama on Immigration
The Court’s Stand for Federalism
WASHINGTON -- By throwing out most of the anti-Latino Arizona immigration law and neutering the rest, the Supreme Court struck a rare blow for fairness and justice. Let's hope this is the beginning of a streak. Let's also hope that Chief Justice John Roberts, who sided with the 5-3 majority in the Arizona case, likes the view from the liberals' end of the bench. They … [Read more...] about The Court’s Stand for Federalism
Defense Update: U.S. Navy, ‘Guarding the World’s Waters’
Events of October 1962 indicated, as they had all through history, that control of the sea means security. Control of the seas can mean peace. Control of the seas can mean victory. The United States must control the seas if it is to protect your security...(President John F. Kennedy, 1963) Atlantic: Aviation Machinist's Mate 2nd Class Joshua Ginieczki, left, and … [Read more...] about Defense Update: U.S. Navy, ‘Guarding the World’s Waters’
Supreme Court Upholds Key Part of Controversial Arizona Immgration Law
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled on Arizona's controversial immigration law: it took the U.S. government side on all but one key part of the Arizona law, in effect saying Arizona went too far on some parts. But the key part it upheld -- the police's right to check the immigration status of people they detain -- could help Democrats' efforts to get a whopping majority of Latino … [Read more...] about Supreme Court Upholds Key Part of Controversial Arizona Immgration Law
Corporate Ownership by Shareholders? Not a Chance
One of the myths of capitalism is that shareholders own corporations and that a majority can determine policy and the compensation of the top executives. While theoretically this may be true, in practice it’s blatantly false. Shareholders are passive investors in companies along for the ride with the top executives in the drivers’ seat. Of course, one wouldn’t expect … [Read more...] about Corporate Ownership by Shareholders? Not a Chance
Egypt’s Morsi Says He’ll Rethink Camp David Accord and Build Stronger Iran Ties
It is quickly seeming evident that more than just an election with the kind of person-on-top shift that implies has taken place in Egypt: Mohammed Morsi's government will "reconsider the Camp David Accord," the 1979 treaty declaring peace between Egypt and Israel, the newly-elected president told Iran's state-run Fars News Agency today. Morsi was also quoted as saying that … [Read more...] about Egypt’s Morsi Says He’ll Rethink Camp David Accord and Build Stronger Iran Ties
Healthcare on a Wire
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Will We Love the Health Care Law if it Dies?
WASHINGTON -- Any day now, the U.S. Supreme Court may make possible something that has yet to happen: an honest and complete discussion of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. And if it throws out all or part of the law now popularly known as "Obamacare," we will need a fearless conversation about how a conservative majority of the court has become a cog in … [Read more...] about Will We Love the Health Care Law if it Dies?
Bubbles and the Collapse
I used to worry about peak oil but not so much now. The thing that is going to get our civilization first is the 30 plus year old leverage bubble bursting. The tech bubble and and housing bubbles were just sub bubbles of the over all leverage bubble and this is nothing new. Nichole Voss explains at from about 13:00 to 19:00 in the video below. Foss had a great line … [Read more...] about Bubbles and the Collapse
Contempt of Congress
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This Just In: John F. Kennedy Is Still Alive (But In My Dreams): Report From 20 Paws Ranch
(PORTIONS ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN JANUARY 2009) I can remember some but by no means all of my dreams, which are seldom erotic, rarely nightmarish and more often than not mundane, frequently involving people and places that I have known, although the people are in places different than where I have known them, while the places are conglomerations of, say, a old farmhouse … [Read more...] about This Just In: John F. Kennedy Is Still Alive (But In My Dreams): Report From 20 Paws Ranch
A Gallery of Jerry Sandusky Guilty Cartoons
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The Secret to Science’s Success
[This is the 4th in the series Religion and Science: A Beautiful Friendship] Man is a creature who makes pictures of himself, and then comes to resemble the picture. – Iris Murdock The title of Mark Twain’s What Is Man? poses a question that humans have pondered for millennia. Our species modestly calls itself Homo sapiens—Man, the wise. We’ve also been dubbed Man, … [Read more...] about The Secret to Science’s Success
A Note to Newt
I have just returned from a trip through the Austin-San Antonio-Corpus Christi “corridor” during which I bought regular gas for $2.99 a gallon, saw another station selling it for $2.97 and saw other prices ranging from $3.02 to $3.29 a gallon, with some a little higher. This was after reading in USA Today that the national average price for regular gasoline price has gone … [Read more...] about A Note to Newt
What Were These Adults Thinking?
You have to wonder, what were the adults thinking this was funny thinking? And if I was the parent, I'd be thinking, "I think it's time I go see a lawyer." … [Read more...] about What Were These Adults Thinking?
How we got a bad Supreme Court (and how to make it better)
Bad? This isn't about particular decisions (though some have been really bad) or about particular justices (though there are a couple of real ringers). It's just that the size of the Court and the way its members are chosen make for mediocrity at best. Jonathan Turley, legal scholar at George Washington, is very critical. He calls for reform. The Court is not sacred, nor … [Read more...] about How we got a bad Supreme Court (and how to make it better)
Lincoln, Vampires and Disneyland
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It’s Nice to be Emperor (Guest Voice)
It's Nice to be Emperor by Michael Reagan If you don't like something or want to get something done, you don't let little things like the Constitution get in your way. For more than three years Emperor Obama has been behaving as if the separation of powers is a pesky fly to be swatted away whenever it becomes too annoying. If Congress doesn't pass the legislation he … [Read more...] about It’s Nice to be Emperor (Guest Voice)