Obama: Retiring Supreme Court Justice Leaving at 'Top of His Game'
Fox News: President Obama called retiring Supreme Court Associate Justice John Paul Stevens an “impartial guardian of the law” who is leaving at the “top of his game.”
Fox News: President Obama called retiring Supreme Court Associate Justice John Paul Stevens an “impartial guardian of the law” who is leaving at the “top of his game.”
From the Associated Press: Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, the court’s oldest member and leader of its liberal bloc, he is retiring. President Barack Obama now has his second high court opening to fill. Stevens said Friday he will
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I thought that we had moved past the KKK era and left behind us a time in which it was acceptable to openly engage bigoted policies on the basis of race and religion. It seems that I was wrong. Until
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Here’s the latest bleat from the not-quite dead-yet MSM, complaining that anonymous commentary is somehow… what? Unfair? Hurtful? Makes you want to run home to mama and cry? Meet Chicago Sun-Times columnist Neil Steinberg: Leonard Pitts Jr. wrote a column
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The New York Times: “I do have to fish or cut bait, just for my own personal peace of mind and also in fairness to the process.”
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As a child, I watched a lot of westerns and cowboy movies. I saw the same scenario in countless films. The sheriff had a prisoner locked up in his jail waiting to stand trial when the judge arrived in the
Has the Democratic Party ever enacted a law as atrocious as its government takeover of the American people’s healthcare? Has the Democratic Party ever enacted a law so unpopular? Yes and Yes. In 1854, Democrats controlled both houses of Congress
Over the past week, two good friends of mine have been raked over the coals by the left because they are conservatives. Both have recently taken on new challenges and the left can’t stand to see these two outspoken conservatives
I am an optimist. I see the glass as half full (preferably with beer). So I am keeping hope alive! There are a couple of ways this can still be stopped. The first is that numerous state attorneys are going
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The Philadelphia Inquirer published a reader feedback opinion editorial from reader Stan Isaacs that is as outlandish as it is indicative of the disregard for the American process that liberals in the Old Media all too often exhibit. It is
Those liberals, reformers, good-government types, New York Times editorial writers and Albany Times Union reporters who were toasting the conviction of long time New York Republican Senate Leader Joe Bruno, will soon have the smile wiped from their elitist faces.
The Constitution and the Second Amendment are in the spotlight this week on two fronts. First is that oral arguments are being held in the McDonald v Chicago case to possibly apply the holding in Heller to the states. In
