Monday, July 10, 2006
Breaking News (05:51 PM) - A U.S. District Judge has just ruled that members of Congress “are not above the law”. Really….
Dartblog: Always Ahead of the Curve! (05:11 PM) - This past May, I wrote in “The Original Micromanager” about a very interesting new release from England’s Opera Rara label, called Mozart: The Supreme Decorator. In the post I mentioned the importance of this release and the unique musicology behind…
First Under The Guillotine? Medical Research. (04:44 PM) - It is difficult to believe that President Bush has come this far without exercising veto power over a single piece of Congressproduct. Either the Capitol is writing remarkably little or else no one in the White House is paying attention…
Unconstitutional, Unless You Do A Referendum (03:59 PM) - Massachusetts’ Supreme Judicial Court famously ruled in 2003 that a ban on gay marriage was unconstitutional, making it legal for people of the same sex to get married in that state. Today, that same court ruled against a coalition of…
Japan Considers Preemptive Strike Against North Korea (12:15 PM) - Japan, which pursuant its own constitution cannot project military force, is weighing the preemptive strike option as regards North Korea, whose (mostly) failed missile tests last week rumbled Tokyo’s bow.TOKYO (AP) - Japan said Monday it was considering whether a…
The Electioneering Begins, Continued (10:39 AM) - Scott Johnson at Power Line comments on the leaked e-mail which seems to set up a sort of ‘campaign strategy’ in favor of the proposed new constitution at Dartmouth: All Dartmouth alumni, regardless of their opinion on the constitution, seem…
Tom Brokaw Joins Fight Against Global Warming (07:21 AM) - How many celebrities does it take to impose the shadow of the future on humanity? I’m supposing the answer is somewhere near infinity, and that people don’t actually consider an assertion more convincing when one more television name signs on…
“Mais Pourquoi, Mais Pourquoi, Mais Pourquoi?” (07:10 AM) - The big thing that happened at the soccer game yesterday afternoon was that a French fellow head-butted an Italian. Here’s the video….