Dear Mr. President: Please Grow a Pair

Not a single word from the President yet on Cali’s recent decision to ban Gay Marriage. Oh, except this courageous, articulate gem: Bravo! What a leader we have in the White House! Unfortunately, some LGBT advocates don’t think so. The Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center CEO, Lorri L. Jean, has some choice words for [...]

Now this is ridiculous

It is definitely WTF Wednesday: Rush Limbaugh isn’t the only one calling Sonia Sotomayor a racist. Newt Gingrich is, too — and he’s demanding that Obama’s pick to the Supreme Court withdraw her nomination. At least he didn’t say she couldn’t be a SCOTUS justice because women get infections. Then there is this stupidity: With [...]

Wednesday: Feelings, nothing more than feeeeeelings.

Mike Huckabee is laying down the law on Sonia Sotomayor.  He won’t be having any touchy feely stuff from *this* SCOTUS nominee: “The notion that appellate court decisions are to be interpreted by the ‘feelings’ of the judge is a direct affront of the basic premise of our judicial system that is supposed to apply [...]

Resist and Die

Since when is resisting arrest a death penalty offense? From the San Francisco Chronicle: Attorneys for the former BART police officer accused of murdering an unarmed rider on New Year’s Day stepped up efforts Tuesday to prove what they called the key to their case – that the victim had resisted arrest. At the preliminary [...]

Your Breakfast Read, Served By The Confluence

Judge Sonia Sotomayor = next SCOTUS? Historic nomination: Hispanic Sotomayor as justice Cases, talks offer hints to her views Record Shows Rulings Within Liberal Mainstream Despite Democratic Bent, Judge Has Sided With Corporate Defendants; Court’s Frequent 5-4 Split Likely to Remain The Sonia I Know Scenes From Judge Sotomayor’s Courtroom I am a conservative, and [...]

Why Alpha Males Rule Our World – and How We Can Begin to Erode their Dominance

Readers: Please Note that this is an extremely long post broken into several parts which includes numerous links to background information.  I’ve chosen to post it in its entirety to allow the reader the option of reading it in total, or ‘nibbling’ on the parts.  If you’d like to read it in parts, I suggest [...]

Go read Glenzilla

I wanted to do a good piece on Sonia Sotomayor,  Obama’s nominee to replace David Souter, but Glenzilla said it first and better.  My favorite part: It is very encouraging that Obama ignored the ugly, vindictive, and anonymous smear campaign led by The New Republic’s Jeffrey Rosen and his secret cast of cowardly Eminent Liberal [...]

Vacation Open Thread

Where are you going this summer? (I’m going to hell in a bucket)

Un/Ravelling One Thread from the Same-Sex Marriage Franchise Skein

The debate on extending the franchise of marriage to same-sex couples appears mired in a contradiction? Advocates of extending the franchise claim that doing so merely gives same-sex couples equal rights status. Advocates of maintaining the current arrangement argue that same-sex couples are seeking special rights, not merely equal rights. On this point, who is [...]

Your Breakfast Read, Served By The Confluence

BREAKING!!! And a nice surprise for a change… Obama Chooses Sotomayor for Supreme Court Nominee (h/t BostonBoomer) President Obama will nominate Judge Sonia Sotomayor of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit as his first appointment to the court, officials said Tuesday, and has scheduled an announcement for 10:15 a.m. at the [...]