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Those blasted activist judges.

How dare they consider “most elementary notions of justice and morality?”

Steve Pearlstein, writing in the Washington Post, expressed the dismay over U.S. Distinct Judge Jed Rakoff’s cavalier approach to the law:

I don’t know about you, but I’ve had it up to here with activist judges who think they can overturn decades of legal precedent and ignore well-established norms of legal behavior in the pursuit of vague ideals like “justice” and “morality”.

Whom do they think they are?

Before discussing the ruling by Judge (more. . .)

In return for the hoped for Republican bi-partisan joining health care reform efforts, Senate Democrats accepted Republican negotiators’ instance that the “public option” and other provisions be dropped. And then the negotiators admitted that none of them would vote for that which had been agreed. Democrats in the Senate, so far, have surrendered in hopes for compromise, all to no avail.

Last November, the American people elected a new president who had run on a platform promising innovation, far-reaching health care reform and, above all, creative (more. . .)

The President’s health care address and the GOP reaction

Last Wednesday, President Obama, that well-known Socialist-Fascist-Kenyan-tool of Marxists everywhere, in between meeting with revolutionaries who are tasked with subjecting our kids’ tender ears with un-American thoughts of killing Granny, addressed a joint session of Congress to plead for an overhaul of our health care delivery system. The opposing GOP acknowledges that the system is flawed and needs reform but urges restraint and warns against rushing into things. Universal health care and reform have been discussed in (more. . .)

Afghanistan and Iraq and terrorists– déjà vu, all over again?

In late 2006, I wrote about the war in Iraq, how it started and, more important, how and why we should get out. To a great extent, President Obama is faced with a very similar set of circumstances in Afghanistan, although our reasons for being there in the first place has a certain apparent rationale and not the fantasies of Vice President Cheney and the neo-conservatives, they are still flawed. President Obama has adopted the (more. . .)

More evidence for the need for expanded health care

Insurance and pharmaceutical companies and their GOP lackeys, mentally challenged talk show hosts (read: Glenn, Rush, Michael Savage, and a few others) have been active in stirring the Rabid Right’s patriots; a foul deed is about to take place, our children are about to be exposed to a communicable disease, they will, by next week, be donning their hidden brown shirts, retrieve the secret communication devices provided by the (gasp!) liberals and, after disclosing all of the (more. . .)