Rachel Lucas wonders how they ever managed to get by.
Category: Politics
Taking Exception
It looks like a lot of Pennsylvanians are rejecting James Carville’s old tome about Pennsylvania being Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Alabama in the middle. Having visited pretty much the entirety of the state, rural Pennsylvania is pretty much like Pennsylvania. Frankly, it’s always looked a lot more like upstate New York than any of the cotton states. If Carville meant that culturally, well, there’s plenty of the supposed ignorance urban dwellers like to attribute to rural people right here in the Philadelphia area. Bitter can attest to that.
Doormat Ideas
For folks who might live in Washington DC, I have a handy and timely doormat suggestion.
UPDATE: Check out this NBC 4 article:
If weapons are recovered, they will be tested and destroyed if they are not found to be linked to any other crimes.
A police spokeswoman said that if evidence of other crimes is found during voluntary searches, amnesty will be granted for that crime as well.
Nevermind the murderers and the rapists! As long as we get that gun off the street everything will be peachy. And they wonder why they can’t keep their crime under control. These DC city politicians really do live in a fantasy world, don’t they?
h/t Instapundit
Live Sniper Fire
Hillary claimed she was subject to it in Bosnia. Now she claims she misspoke. Ahab thinks she’s just lying. I think so too. I’m pretty sure if I was ever under live sniper fire, that image would be seared… seared into my memory.
And to think …
… there are folks that want to put these people in charge of our health care.
What’s He Trying to Hide?
I’m greatly amused by the subject of this e-mail I got from my state representative: “King to hold Identity Theft and Document Shredding Fair”
You Vil Be Faitful to Ze Party
Or they’ll lock you up, in Ohio.
Judicial Pay
There’s a movement to increase the pay of federal judges, currently being lead by Justice Roberts. I agree that we probably should be paying federal justices competitively. Here’s why:
The cost of not [addressing the pay disparity] will be a decrease in the quality of an increasingly important judiciary — and a change in its perspective. Fifty years ago, about 65 percent of the federal judiciary came from the private sector — from the practicing bar — and 35 percent from the public sector. Today 60 percent come from government jobs, less than 40 percent from private practice. This tends to produce a judiciary that is not only more important than ever but also is more of an extension of the bureaucracy than a check on it.
Absent competitive pay, the only reason someone has to take a federal judgeship is to power and prestige associated with the position, or a lack of ability in the private sector. That’s probably the type of person we don’t want sitting on the bench.
Philadelphia Politicians Force Political Suicide
Apparently the politicians in Philadelphia want Obama and Hillary to take a stand:
Philadelphia’s Democratic leaders say they’ll press Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama to back stricter gun laws, despite the risk of angering voters throughout the rest of Pennsylvania and possibly damaging the party’s nominee in the general election.
Gun violence in Philadelphia — 331 homicides from gunfire in 2007 — thrust firearms laws to the top of the agenda for city voters, and they don’t care about the potential political pitfalls for the presidential candidates, said Carol Campbell, a Democratic ward leader in the city.
“If you can’t deal with it, then you’ve got a problem,” said Mrs. Campbell, who supports Mr. Obama and heads an alliance of black ward leaders.
So it’s not just the rest of Pennsylvania that has to pay because the Philadelphia politicians can’t control crime, the entire nation has to pay. I actually hope they do take a stand on this. That way gun owners across Pennsylvania won’t be fooled, and will be more likely to cross over and vote against these two.
Network Solutions are Cowards
They have shut down a web site under pressure from Islamists:
h4rm0ny notes the furor over an anti-Islamic movie due to be released on the Web in the next week. After Pakistan disrupted YouTube worldwide over an interview with right-wing Dutch MP and filmmaker Geert Wilders, Network Solutions, acting as host as well as registrar, has suspended Wilders’s site promoting the 15-minute film “Fitna” (a Koranic term translated as “strife”).
The site now says:
This site has been suspended while Network Solutions is investigating whether the site’s content is in violation of the Network Solutions Acceptable Use Policy. Network Solutions has received a number of complaints regarding this site that are under investigation.
I don’t use Network Solutions, and now I can guarantee that I never will. We have to be willing to stand up to people who refuse to live peaceably among free citizens.