Arizona, Washington, and the Failure of Comprehensive Legislation

    There’s been an enormous amount of heat and not much light on the new Arizona immigration law. I lose track from time to time of which state the Left is hating at the moment – I believe in the past year or so we’ve been through at least Massachusetts, Louisiana, Texas, Alaska, Virginia and Arizona, but I could be missing a few – but the | Read More »

    Waiting For Bureaucrats To Say It’s Time To Make The Donuts

    One of the benefits of reading a lot of judicial opinions, as I do, is that you get to see a lot of retail examples of how our government operates at its most legalistic-bureaucratic. Yesterday’s opinion by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in River Street Donuts, LLC v. Napolitano is a wonderful little vignette about a bureaucratic system run amok.

    Factual Accuracy and McSame Syndrome

    We stand today deep into the silly season of the 2008 presidential election; most of us have our dander up, and naturally some Obama partisans like Josh Marshall and Joe Klein have floated off on clouds of rhetorical overkill in an effort to push the idea that their opponent is somehow running an unusually dishonest campaign. Even aside from the partisanship, you have to be | Read More »

    FrankJ On The World Court Decision

    FrankJ is brilliantly concise as always, on Mexican nationals facing the death penalty in Texas: “A lot of those Mexicans came here illegally hoping to be treated like citizens. I guess they got their wish.”