Year: 2005

I’ve already seen plenty of comparisons made between nominee Harriet Miers and past Supreme Court Justices, including a few assumed generalizations when lining her up against the most recently confirmed Supremer, Chief Justice John Roberts. Again, the conventional wisdom is that he stands head and shoulders (not just physically) above her in terms of qualifications. But, upon further examination by Beldar, the dissimilarities aren’t as vast as you’d expect.

Now that the information has been officially analyzed, it appears that Hurricane Katrina was a category 3 storm and she weakened to a category 1 at landfall. Ace wonders if this makes funding the New Orleans rebuild a tougher sell. I think it depends on whether or not one restores or rebuilds the city. Restoration means you return things to the state they were previously in. Rebuild means you can start over, with a NEW and better plan.

Fiscally speaking, a rebuild makes more sense.

John Hawkins releases version 4.0 of his 40 favorite blogs. Once again, I’m hangin in there at position 41…right John? (I’m sure there are lots of blogs out there who believe they’re 41 too…but I belieeeeve!)

Drudge screams the following headline in reference to a story released by TIME:

HARRIET MIERS SUPPORTED FULL CIVIL RIGHTS FOR GAYS AND LESBIANS; BACKED AIDS EDUCATION PROGRAMS FOR CITY OF DALLAS

In her 1989 run for Dallas City Council, Harriet Miers filled out a questionnaire from the Lesbian/Gay Political Coalition of Dallas, where she indicated her support for full civil rights for gays and lesbians and backed AIDS education programs for the city of Dallas…

And Kay Bailey Hutchison noted on Fox News this morning that Miers was a Democrat in 1988, but “switched” soon after to support her and Bush.

Meanwhile, Michelle Malkin continues to provide the best all around coverage of the Miers matter.

Ah, the foreign press…they do these things so well.

In this day and age, you’d hardly think they exist, but they do. A lot of us work hard to appear on Google, but these people go to great lengths to be sure they do not.

Well that didn’t take very long. Hmm…48,250 visits already. The question is, how long can they keep it going?

Actually, who cares.

…I watched Match Game. Now he’s gone. Dang it all to [BLANK].

Actor Nipsey Russell, known as “the poet laureate of television,” passed away yesterday afternoon at Lenox Hill Hospital.

Eyewitness News has learned Russell died of cancer, confirmed his longtime manager, Joseph Rapp. He was 80.

The man could definitely rhyme. Forget Charles Nelson Reilly. Nipsey was the Match Game master.

RIP.

Chief Justice John Roberts warmed the BIG seat on the Supreme Court for the first time today. He’s just so yesterday’s news isn’t he!

I suspect we’ll be seeing a lot more of this type of book publishing in the not too distant future.