Yesterday, at a luncheon talk to the National Press Club, Chuck Schumer gave a tremendous breakdown of the Roberts nomination and how the Bush administration might bring about a more adversarial response from the Democrats. I caught Schumer’s talk this morning on CSPAN and I was pretty impressed. Schumer is the ranking Democrat on the […]

China is systematically engaged in industrial espionage against American and European corporations in an effort to close gaps between Chinese technologies and their Western competitors, the BBC reports. Recent defections by a handful of Chinese spies and diplomats, most notably in Australia and Belgium, have confirmed that China has sent thousand of students and workers […]

Philo turned me on to this article from the Times.
Apparently the administration is ditching the term “War on Terror” in favor of “global struggle against violent extremism” in an attempt to remind Americans that the military is only one part of the solution. According to the article, the word “war” implies that this is purely […]

I’m with you all the way on your last post TST.
The Bush team really dropped the ball by choosing Roberts, at least from a political standpoint. Their agenda is shot to hell, none of their major projects are getting traction, the war in Iraq is becoming more and more unpopular as the Bush team’s lack […]

Sometimes I really love reading Brooks because it is so clear that he just makes stuff up. His op-ed today was obviously written without looking beyond his computer screen:
Hillary Clinton and the other Democratic hopefuls will have to choose between the militant wing of the party, important in the primary season, and the nation’s […]

Well, Ann Coulter is scared. And I like it.
Finally, lets ponder the fact that Roberts has gone through 50 years on this planet without ever saying anything controversial. That’s just unnatural. By contrast, I held out for three months, tops, before dropping my first rhetorical bombshell, which I think was about Goldwater. It’s especially unnatural […]

Is Roberts a conservative? Yes. Does he oppose Roe v. Wade? Yes. Does this mean that his decisions as a Supreme Court justice would follow suit? Not necessarily. From Robert’s confirmation hearing in 2003:
My practice has not been ideological in any sense. My clients and their positions are liberal and conservative across the board. I […]

Elizabeth Cavendish has an astute breakdown of Roberts’ record and views on reproductive rights. Of note:
Roberts has never disavowed the statements that he made as a political appointee at the Department of Justice. His apologists claim he was a lawyer, just representing his client. I don’’t buy it –- the Reagan and Bush I administrations […]

President Bush nominated John Roberts Jr. last night, despite the rampant rumors (and subsequent cries of misdirection) pointing towards Edith Clement. It didn’t take too long for people to realize that Bush wasn’t about to nominate a pro-choice woman, even if she is a conservative. So after all the talk of nominating a Hispanic or […]

First things first, to quote Josh over at TPM from a couple weeks ago, we lost this battle back in November. Since then we have seen the administration floundering around, trying to push its brand of regressive conservatism through Congress and the courts, and lobbying Americans with hopes of converting them to a country of […]