Larison solves the problem of why Maria Sotomayor’s ruling in the Ricci case was not the Worst Decision Evah (his entire post on Sotomayor is excellent): What this means is that the appeals court ruled against Ricci because it recognized that New Haven had tried to avoid a lawsuit that would have been possible and …
Archives for May 2009
Open Thread- Lovable Losers Edition
Thanks for helping my sister out, she met her goal. Dinner was great, and this about sums up the general mood at Casa de Tunch: This is a much better version, but you can’t embed it. Dunno if I have ever mentioned how much I like Waylon and actual real country music, but now I …
Friday Open Thread
I’m off to dinner with some friends, but I wanted to leave you with a shiny new open thread. Also, my insane sister, who never met a plane she did not want to jump out of or a cliff she did not want to climb, a trait that I simply do not share, is apparently …
Andy McCarthy Ups the Ante
Not only is Sotomayor not qualified for the Supreme Court, she is not qualified for… jury duty: Would Judge Sotomayor be qualified to serve as a juror? Let’s say she forthrightly explained to the court during the voir dire (the jury-selection phase of a case) that she believed a wise Latina makes better judgments than …
Get This Man a Column
I’ll note with glee that Bill Kristol’s jockstrap, Michael Goldfarb, appears to be just as fast and loose with the facts as his boss: So Goldfarb’s snide comments about Sotomayor teaching her own class and grading her own work seem to be completely baseless: she didn’t teach the class. It is, however, increasingly clear why …
Direct Fail
Richard Viguerie: “The nomination of Sonia Sotomayor unites all wings of the conservative movement–economic, foreign policy, social, traditional, neocon, and libertarian–in a way we haven’t seen since the early Clinton years. “Judge Sotomayor frightens all conservatives. As the debate over her nomination heats up, conservatives will provide the primary opposition to Sotomayor and will quickly …
WSJ Brings the Funny
Nooners: Republicans, Let’s Play Grown-Up “Let’s play grown-up.” When I was a child, that’s what we said when we ran out of things to do like playing potsie or throwing rocks in the vacant lot. You’d go in and take your father’s hat and your mother’s purse and walk around saying, “Would you like tea?” …