Month: June 2014

Add the Washington Post to the list of those who never researched Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby.

Sheesh.

Neil’s comment is apropos, here:

Seriously, we may have to start an affirmative action program to force academics and the media to take in actual conservatives and religious people, just so that the Left can learn to appreciate the Other.

Moe Lane

PS: You cannot force a clear-cut First Amendment case to be about whatever the hell the Democrats need this week to avoid an electoral blowout. Reality doesn’t work that way.

Tweet of the Day, It’s Clearly A Matter Of Bork Bork Bork edition.

This makes perfect sense to me.

As well it should, obviously. Continue reading Tweet of the Day, It’s Clearly A Matter Of Bork Bork Bork edition.

Two kinds of people commenting about the Hobby Lobby case…

…the people who are familiar with the case and what was being argued; and then there’s the Activist Left.  The people who are familiar with the case understand that while Hobby Lobby did in fact get the ruling it wanted – to wit, that the company was not required to provide access to drugs that it considered to be abortifacients* – it is not all that broad a ruling.  Privately held companies have more protection here than publicly traded ones like, say, Wal-Mart or Boeing; it’s a win for religious liberty, but not a grand slam home run.  Again, those are the people who are familiar with the case.

And then there are these people:

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Continue reading Two kinds of people commenting about the Hobby Lobby case…

First thoughts, Harris v. Quinn, Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby.

Basically:

  • ‘Constitutional law scholar,’ my white Irish middle-aged tuchis.
  • That being said, both decisions are relatively narrow. The Right was looking for grand slams; we got RBIs.
  • But remember: the people who won wanted RBIs. Harris wanted to stop getting dinged for useless union dues.  Hobby Lobby didn’t want to go out of business because the alternative was paying for drugs that they considered to be abortifacients.  They both got their wish.

And that’s it for right now.  Gotta go clean the living room.

Rooting For Injuries Watch: Hillary Clinton vs. Ashley Madison.

I don’t give a tinker’s dam who wins this one, as long as it’s a messy fight.

 

…And I could go on in the vein of ‘I am happy to see a Democratic Presidential candidate and a company that explicitly bases its business model on encouraging adultery fight it out,’ but the Supreme Court beckons.  See you on the flip side!

Valerie Jarrett is truly unlikely to run for office, alas.

I presume that she knows this: it’s just that admitting that Hey, I am the insider-public face for the most incompetent, feckless, and downright ineffectual Presidential administration in living memory would probably be too personally embarrassing.  I mean, sure, we all know that once Barack Obama is out of office there’s going to be a lot of people in Valerie Jarrett’s own party that are going to settle some scores, with malice aforethought. And I presume that Jarrett knows that, too.  But the woman has her own personal pride; she’s not going to want to talk in public about how poor her life choices have been.

Via Hot Air Headlines.

Moe Lane

PS: I don’t care if it’s a school board election: we would make the race a national issue.

Israel inching towards recognizing Kurdistan, whether the White House likes it or not.

An independent Kurdish state is becoming more likely to happen all the time.

The Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, has voiced support for Kurdish statehood, taking a position that appears to clash with the US preference to keep sectarian war-torn Iraq united.

Pointing to the mayhem in Iraq, Netanyahu on Sunday called for the establishment of an independent Kurdistan as part of a broader alliance with moderate forces across the region…

I hope that the White House is prepared for the possibility. Because if it happens, it will happen fast.