Archive for January 2009
Impeachment: So We Don't Have To Kill Him
Having been removed from office on a unanimous vote of the Illinois State Senate, Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich shows an unsurprising failure to understand the principal virtue of the constitutional impeachment…
Read MoreBack to the Seventeenth Amendment
I generally don’t read newspaper editorials, because they are so often namby-pamby or poorly-informed. For once, though, I thoroughly commend the Washington Post’s objection to the recent appointment of successor…
Read MoreObama — Good on History; Ellis — Less so
This new president not only went to good schools, he seems to have remembered some of what he was taught, and has kept on learning. His Inaugural Address had some admirable historical touches. …
Read MoreHow NOT To Be Inaugurated
As Barack Obama and Joe Biden prepare for Inauguration Day, they can allay pre-ceremony jitters with the calming thought that it will be difficult to perform worse than Andrew Johnson…
Read MoreBurris v. The Senate: Folding a Winning Hand
Some events reveal character. So it is with the Senate Democratic leadership’s response to the appointment of Roland Burris to the Senate by politically radioactive Gov. Rod Blagojevich of Illinois. …
Read MoreSidelined by Spammers
If you’ve been wondering why I haven’t posted anything since the holidays, my website was sidelined by a security breach suffered by the server that hosts the site. Between the…
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