Presented without comment: At issue in the Dover lawsuit, brought by 11 parents in Federal District Court, is whether intelligent design is really religion dressed up as science, and whether teaching it in a public school violates the constitutional separation of church and state. The More center’s lawyers put scientists on the witness stand who …
Required Reading
Brent Scrowcroft says important things in the New Yorker. Go read. Done? OK. First, the color commentary. If you saw the last Bond flick, Die Another Day, you’ll remember the climactic father-son confrontation on board a burning cargo plane. That’s what I think is going on here, minus the part where the son electrocutes the …
Watch Your Back, Judo Boy
Blogger-in-training Tim F summarizes Republican responses to yesterday’s Democratic tomfoolery.
Closed Session
Call this blog fashionably late for the party. It appears that Harry Reid has invoked Rule 21, which closes the Senate to the news media, in order to chat about that “phase two” of the Senate Select Committee on Inteligence. You’ll recall that Pat Roberts (R – Kan) promised to follow up the report on …
That Other Story Going On Right Now
First assistant vice-blogger Tim F bravely links to someone else’s story.
Kaddish, for a Monday Night Ravens Game
Prepare the first paper cup of Yuengling. The first question: Why is this game unlike other games? Answer: On this game, unlike all other games, the Steelers have the opportunity to humiliate the Ravens, the true successor to the hated Cleveland Browns, before an appreciative home crowd. Second question: Why on this night, unlike all …
Why Scalito Had to be Done
Sous-blogger Tim F explains why Bush couldn’t bloody well pick David Souter. Besides the fact that Souter’s already on the court.