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The Nobel Prize for Not Being George W. Bush

Hilariously, Barack Obama has won the Nobel Peace Prize. Previous winners include Kofi Annan (2001), Jimmy Carter (2002), and Al Gore (2007); the gag in my headline (swiped from PJ Doland) isn't really much of a gag. The Peace Prize is quite ...

From JOHN TABIN, American Spectator,  9 Oct 2009
Related Topics: George W. Bush,  Barack Obama

Missile Defenseless

So the Obama Administration has decided to scrap the missile defense systems planned for installation in Poland and the Czech Republic, just as the Russians had been agitating for. The Administration says that a sea-based missile defense will meet ...

From JOHN TABIN, American Spectator,  17 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama

Tom Friedman Certainly Has His Drawbacks

While I've often thought that Tom Friedman's thinking is muddled, I have never before thought of it as depraved. But what other conclusion can one draw from this? Watching both the health care and climate/energy debates in Congress, it is hard not ...

From JOHN TABIN, American Spectator,  9 Sep 2009
Related Topics: U.S. Congress,  U.S. Democratic Party

Stevens to Retire Next Year?

There's been lots of speculation today that Justice John Paul Stevens will retire from the Supreme Court in 2010, based on his hiring: He usually hires all four of his clerks a year ahead of time, but has only hired one clerk (retired judges are ...

From JOHN TABIN, American Spectator,  3 Sep 2009
Related Topics: John Paul Stevens

Ted Kennedy & Deregulation

There is, buried deep within Kennedy's legislative legacy, a different set of policies worth exhuming and examining, precisely because they were truly a break with the normal way of doing business in Washington. During the 1970s, Kennedy was ...

From JOHN TABIN, American Spectator,  26 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Edward M. Kennedy

It Depends on What the Meaning of the Word "Use" Is

Erick Erickson at RedState reads Sonia Sotomayor's written response to the judiciary committee's questions about the use of foreign law as amending her oral testimony to the point of reversing its meaning. I actually don't think it reverses her ...

From JOHN TABIN, American Spectator,  22 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Sonia Sotomayor

Did Sotomayor Tip Her Hand on the Sixth Amendment?

It's always difficult to deal with people's disappointments about cases, particularly when they have personal experiences and have their own sense of the impact of a case. I was a former prosecutor. And it's difficult proving cases as it is. ...

From JOHN TABIN, American Spectator,  15 Jul 2009

Supreme Confrontation

The Supreme Court issued its final opinions of the term yesterday, and David Souter said his farewell to the bench. On July 13, the Senate Judiciary committee will begin confirmation hearings for Sonia Sotomayor, who will almost certainly replace ...

From JOHN TABIN, American Spectator,  30 Jun 2009
Related Topics: Antonin Scalia,  Ruth Bader Ginsburg,  John Paul Stevens,  David Souter,  Sonia Sotomayor

Sonia Souter Left

Few serious people will argue that Sonia Sotomayor has been nominated to the Supreme Court because she is the best candidate for the job. ABC News correspondent Jan Crawford Greenburg reports that President Obama's political advisers favored ...

From JOHN TABIN, American Spectator,  28 May 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  David Souter,  Sonia Sotomayor,  Harvard University,  John Roberts

More on Sonia Sotomayor

Let me start with the obvious conclusion that anyone would draw if they were to get to know Judge Sotomayor and her work both intimately and deeply: she is an absolutely brilliant jurist and an absolutely brilliant person... I count myself ...

From JOHN TABIN, American Spectator,  7 May 2009

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