….. But I Don’t Have Any Time For:
- To many, Bob Casey’s vote against rescinding the pro-abortion “Mexico City Policy,” and his bishop’s statement (HT Catholic News Agency) in reaction to that vote, end the argument over whether the Pennsylvania Senator is prolife. Of course he (unlike his heroic late father, who must be spinning in his grave) is not prolife, even though he posed as prolife during the 2006 election campaign. The vote involved merely confirms the obvious. As I noted last summer, the argument over whether Casey is prolife ended when he endorsed radically antilife Barack Obama for president.
- Two of the key principals at Milberg Weiss, convicted criminals Melvyn Weiss and Bill Lerach, that notorious law firm of public-company shakedown artists and heavy contributors to the tort lawyer-friendly Democratic Party, lost money with Bernie Madoff. Words cannot express how little I regret their losses.
- Good find, from Patrick Poole in an e-mail — “Columbus Police Kick CAIR to the Curb.” Now if only Ted Strickland would do the same, instead of giving the organization legitimacy by yukking it up at celebratory banquets. Reinforcement: A Google News archive search on “Strickland criticizes CAIR” without quotes from January 1, 2007 through December 31, 2008 comes up empty.
- I recommend that Jonah Goldberg amend this 2006 post at the Corner giving Hugh Hewitt and others for their support of mislabeled “stimulus”-supporting Arlen Specter over Pat Toomey in 2004′s GOP Senatorial Primary.
- Here’s a strong argument that the Obama administration’s Census power grab is unconstitutional.
- Apparently the Obama-driven idea of partying down to show support for the mislabeled “stimulus” bill this past weekend wasn’t that stimulating. Obama’s peeps won’t find this account of what happened at one party very stimulating either.
- Meant to get to this sooner — To the extent any of Ohio Governor Ted Strickland’s 120 proposed fee increases that are supposed to raise $236 million exceed the cost of providing the services involved, they are tax increases. The linked article also says that “The budget as proposed grows by an estimated 4.4 percent. That growth rate is considered historically slow.” Regardless of history, that growth rate is at least a few percentage points higher than it should be.
