Anybody who reads this blog knows where I fall on the gay marriage issue, but the Supreme Court of California wasn’t reallly deciding the validity of gay marriage itself, so the ruling was actually dead on in my opinion.
This article from Bloomberg points out why…
The court legalized gay marriage a year ago before California voters [...]

So far, the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court has produced the expected reactions from political commentators.
On the right, Sotomayor is being positioned as a liberal activist and an identity-politics hack who indulges leftist policy preferences rather than ruling fairly. On the left, Sotomayor is being praised and her critics positioned as desperate [...]

No doubt you’ll be hearing A LOT about this decision…
Although Sotomayor has not had a case dealing directly with abortion rights, she wrote the opinion in Center for Reproductive Law and Policy v. Bush, 304 F.3d 183 (2d Cir. 2002), a challenge to the “Mexico City Policy,” which prohibited foreign organizations receiving U.S. funds from [...]

I know she was the most buzzed about, but I genuinely didn’t think he was going to go with her because there’s a good chance it’ll turn into a fight given some of her past statements. Also, some of the left were whispering that they weren’t too impressed with her intellect, so I thought Obama [...]

The pick is in. President Obama has chosen federal appeals judge Sonia Sotomayor to replace David Souter on the U.S. Supreme Court. If confirmed, Sotomayor will be the third woman and the first Hispanic to serve on the nation’s highest court.
The AP has a roundup of her life and career.
We’ll have a lot more to [...]

Well, North Korea has the world’s attention. Exploding a nuclear bomb and launching missile tests will do that. All that’s left now is for the world to respond.
North Korea has long been a foreign policy conundrum, frustrating a long line of U.S. presidents who’ve attempted to stop the so-called hermit nation from threatening its neighbors. [...]

Although the tech isn’t exactly new, the following video shows a father/son team in France who seem to have put together one of the most commercially viable options I’ve seen to date.

Following up on my ethanol post and considering how destructive fuel is in general, shouldn’t the US be investing heavily in fueless tech like [...]

I’ve said it before on this blog, but it bears repeating…the ethanol industry is not good for this country.
But instead of paying attention to the facts, there’s a new lobbying push headed by General Wesley Clark to up the mandated 10% in our fuel supply to 15%.
Why? Because the industry is going bankrupt and [...]

Before anyone jumps up and declares this cartoon tasteless, I do not condone genocide.  I just want to imply in a satirical way that these two regimes are shooting each other in the foot with their nuclear tests.  For now it may seem that they both have a long while to go before developing a [...]

Eric “Mancow” Muller is a fairly popular conservative/libertarian morning talk show host, and he didn’t think waterboarding was torture.
It took 6 seconds for him to change his mind:
Witnesses said Muller thrashed on the table, and even instantly threw the toy cow he was holding as his emergency tool to signify when he wanted the experiment [...]

It was must see TV yesterday, but I’m just getting around to it now. Ultimately, I think this did little to change any minds, but it did position Obama more firmly in the center of this issue and made Cheney seem further off to the right since he offered nothing new except justifications. Because he [...]

I didn’t think Steele could get any hackier, but yet again he proves me wrong.
Roll tape!

And here’s the transcript…
STEELE: The problem that we have with this president is that we don’t know [Obama]. He was not vetted, folks. … He was not vetted, because the press fell in love with the black man running for [...]

The logic of how we’ve handled terrorism and terrorists in the post 9/11 world has always been flawed, but one of the more obviously incorrect arguments has been the claim that we don’t want these people serving time on American soil.
Why? Not sure really. We just don’t. They’re incredibly, crazy dangerous for some reason and [...]

The FBI has foiled another terrorist plot, this one in New York and involving the planned bombing of synagogues and the shooting down of a military plane.
The FBI was apparently all over this, following the would-be attackers for quite awhile and even supplying them with fake C-4 through an informant. In fact, while the men [...]

Today, Congress sent President Obama the much talked-about bill setting in place new rules for the credit card industry.
The new restrictions will protect debt-ridden consumers from many of the surprise charges common in the industry, like over-the-limit fees and a charge to pay the bill by phone. People under 21 also will find it difficult [...]

The unusual case of a cancer-stricken thirteen year-old who is refusing treatment is quickly becoming one of those unusual and unfortunate legal cases that mix religion, law and the rights of the individual.
With the support of his parents, the thirteen year-old in question is refusing chemotherapy because the family believes in “natural” healing (they are [...]

Looks like Iran decided to remind us why we don’t want that nation getting nuclear weaponry:
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Iran test-fired a new advanced missile Wednesday with a range of about 1,200 miles, far enough to strike Israel, southeastern Europe and U.S. bases in the Middle East.
Experts believe Iran is still six to eight years [...]

2008 Senator Lindsey Graham seems to disagree with 2009 Lindsey Graham.
This is Mike Fritz and David Murdock from ANP.
Senator Lindsey Graham was a passionate critic of the Bush Justice attorneys during this past summer’s Armed Services Committee hearings on interrogation.
Lately, however, Graham seems to have had second thoughts on the matter. At a recent Judiciary [...]

I shared news about the increasingly irrelevant Steele a couple weeks ago and it looks like he’s fighting back.
And hey, good for him for fighting back, but my guess is that many want him out because they think he’s too moderate and too mouthy.
I mean, when you say that Romney’s mormonism was one of [...]

We overeat. It’s that simple.
Oh, sure, we could probably exercise more and eat more fiber and all that, but, after looking at and studying this issue for years, I’m pretty sure the solution to the American obesity problem is for everyone to eat less.
Unfortunately, that’s not as easy as it sounds – not when [...]