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Alan Greenspan
"In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. ... This is the shabby secret of the welfare statists' tirades against gold. Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth. Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights. If one grasps this, one has no difficulty in understanding the statists' antagonism toward the gold standard."
Pat Buchanan on Terror Trials
I'm not much of a fan of Pat Buchanan -- he's too much the left's stereotypical dyspeptic conservative, and I don't always like his very populist tone. But I think he's hit on something very important in regards to Obama's decision to send Guantanamo terrorist detainees to a civilian court in New York City.
Mass. Dems change rules ex post facto - pass bill to change Senate succession law
As speculated at the time of Ted Kennedy's death, the Massachusetts House has passed a bill to allow the Governor (Democrat Deval Patrick) to appoint a successor to Ted Kennedy, to serve until the Jan. 19, 2010 special election. Apparently, Barack Obama has had a heavy hand in pushing the change:
222 & 147 years ago today...
On this day in 1787, the Constitution was formally adopted by the Convention in Philadelphia, and sent to the several States for ratification. As Ed Whelan of NRO's Bench Memos quotes:
Sotomayor - Day 2 and 3 reflections (and now 4)
[Ed. See below for the Day 4 additions.]
Yesterday saw Day 2 of the Sotomayor hearings, and the beginning of the first round of Senators questioning Judge Sotomayor.
Senators from day 2 incuded Leahy (D-VT), Sessions (R-AL), Kohn (D-WI), Hatch (R-UT), Feinstein (D-CA), Grassley (R-IA), Finegold (D-WI), Kyl (R-AZ), Schumer (D-NY), and Graham (R-SC). I'm missing somebody for sure, but I can't think of who.
It's Sotomayor's day at the Senate Judiciary Committee today
This morning at 10am is Obama Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor's first hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
The Committee, like the Senate, is Majority Democrat, and she can be passed out of committee without a single Republican vote. The margin is 12-7, so it would take an unprecedented 3 Democrats to flip in order to defeat her in committee. Not going to happen.
MN Supreme Court says Franken "entitled" to election certificate
Seems, according to AP, that the Minnesota Supreme Court has decided that the voter intent of legally submitted, but improperly rejected, absentee ballots in the 2008 Minnesota Senate race, is unimportant, and that Franken is "entitled" to an election certificate, but stopped short of ordering the Governor, Repubican Tim Pawlenty, to sign it.
Supreme Court Reverses Sotomayor Ruling
Thankfully, the Supreme Court has narrowly reversed the decision of Sotomayor's lower court ruling in the RICCI ET AL. v. DESTEFANO ET AL. case. You may recall that the case involved a firefighter's exam given by the New Haven, Connecticut government to determine which firefighters should be promoted to lieutenant.
AMA Opposes ObamaCare
ObamaCare has hit a pothole! The American Medical Association, the largest association of doctors in the country, have publicly opposed St. Barack's universal healthcare proposal. Don't get too excited, however, they're only worried that their own choices could be truncated - they still actively advocate restricting the rights of patients.
