http://www.redstate.com/redhot Just another RedState: Conservative News and Community weblog Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:55:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Via @jmartpolitico, Doug Kmiec gets the ambassadorship to Malta. *Pop-culture reference. Crossposted to Moe Lane http://www.redstate.com/redhot/2009/07/02/because-wales-doesnt-merit-an-ambassador/ Isn't it about time for the POTUS to man up and stop trying to pass the buck? Apparently he hauled out the "Bush's fault" sob story again today. C'mon, Mr. Shovel-Ready Projects. I thought your mighty "stimulus" package was going to save the world! Start taking ... http://www.redstate.com/redhot/2009/07/02/the-failed-bush-policies-schtick-is-getting-old-barry/ I've found the courts' use of foreign precedent to be an incredibly outrageous stretch of judicial misbehavior. Apparently Sonia Sotomayor doesn't see it that way. Today the Washington Times exposes (not that it was a secret) Sotomayor's "transnationalist" tendencies...her fondness for the consideration of foreign precedent and thought in the ... http://www.redstate.com/redhot/2009/07/02/washtimes-nails-sotomayor-for-foreign-ideas/ He says it's not a big deal to him, but Sully can't pass up an opportunity to bash Sarah Palin. So he posts this. So why didn't Andrew Sullivan, that great defender of flag etiquette, bother to spare the bandwidth to call attention to Joe Biden's treatment of the flag at the ... http://www.redstate.com/redhot/2009/07/02/memo-to-obama-sully-for-flag-czar/ Sign this petition. * - Or more correctly, keep their hands from going even further into the healthcare field. http://www.redstate.com/redhot/2009/07/02/want-to-keep-government-out-of-healthcare/ A noble experiment? Not really, find out why and how this 75 year old political cartoon is even more relevant today at The Discovering Alcoholic. http://www.redstate.com/redhot/2009/07/02/prohibition-just-what-the-doctor-ordered/ Rumor* has it Rep. Waxman was on a walk in the woods celebrating the victory of the Waxman/Markey Bill, drawing in deep breaths of that fresh air that he is creating, along the trail he came to a flowery meadow.  Rep. Waxman pause and bent down to "smell the roses" ... http://www.redstate.com/redhot/2009/07/01/re-re-waxman/ He should be medivac'd to Canada for treatment. When they are able to schedule it. http://www.redstate.com/redhot/2009/07/01/re-waxman-2/ He probably developed bagelhead. http://www.redstate.com/redhot/2009/07/01/re-waxman/ Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Henry Waxman, has been hospitalized. We don't know why or how serious though rumors of his strangling on nasal hair and the side effects of huffing carbon offsets are circulating. While we certainly wish Mr. Waxman a more rapid recovery than that he ... http://www.redstate.com/redhot/2009/07/01/henry-waxman-hospitalized/