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Uh oh! Not looking good for the opponents of Prop. 8 While both sides cheered the court’s decision to take up the cases, Kennard’s lone vote to deny review could spell trouble for opponents of Prop. 8. Kennard is the court’s longest-serving justice, having been appointed in 1989, and has been one of its foremost…

All they need is one aimed right at Israel. Just in time for President-elect Obama. How will he handle it? And will Israel do a preemptive strike before Obama takes office or wait until they see how he handles the situation? Iran has now produced roughly enough nuclear material to make, with added purification, a…

So, Obama is putting a boarder state governor in charge of homeland security (at least that’s the rumor), Does that mean he might be looking to do a better job than Bush protecting our boarders or is he just paying back a supporter? President-elect Barack Obama’s top choice for secretary of homeland security is Arizona…

EEP! This sounds scary: “When it gets rough out there, a lot of business leaders get out of the car and say, ‘We’re OK with minor reform.’ I’m challenging you today, we’re going to have to do big, serious things,” Rahm Emanuel said, speaking to The Wall Street Journal’s CEO Council, a conference convened to…

The court will take up the case of whether the ban was constitutional and will also take up the question of the legality of the 18,000 same sex marriages already performed but they refused to suspend the ban: Responding to pleas for legal clarity from those on both sides of the issue, the California Supreme…

What is it with German theologians? A Muslim convert hired as a professor of Islamic theology to counter the teaching of extremist Muslims has determined that the Prophet Muhammad probably didn’t exist: When Prof. Kalisch took up his theology chair four years ago, he was seen as proof that modern Western scholarship and Islamic ways…

This sounds about right: Everywhere I went on my book tour, young people would come up. “We’re beyond your generation,” they would tell me. “We grew up differently than you did.” No, I tell them, you didn’t. You did not. You are now obsessed with race. Race is the only thing that’s driving your interest…

Jerk! I think it’s going to get very annoying if our enemies use racial slurs to taunt us. One president’s called a cowboy and the other a “house negro” iit’s interesting how al-Qaida knows enough about our culture to mimic our insults and to use a piece of Malcolm X footage to explain the insult:…

It’s about time someone started fighting back against these Somalia pirates. I kept wondering why these tankers don’t have decent security that would blow a Somalia pirate ship out of the water: An Indian warship destroyed a pirate ship in the Gulf of Aden and gunmen from Somalia seized two more vessels despite a large…

A businessman who works in the toy industry lost his job and is almost at the end of his unemployment benefits and not too far from being homeless. He donned a sandwich board advertising his need for work and handed out resumes in Manhattan. After nine fruitless months of looking for work, Paul Nawrocki turned…

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