Below The Beltway

Another Saturday and another dominating performance by the Buckeyes as Ohio State beat Minnesota 41-31. From the report, it doesn’t seem like the game was even as close as the score indicates.
No. 12 Ohio State showed off its speed on Minnesota’s fast track.
By beating the Gophers in a game of catch-us-if-you-can on the Metrodome’s artificial […]

In contrast to Colbert I. King’s screed in the Post, which I write about here, Thomas Sowell’s column in today’s Washington Times tells the real story behind the segregation that Rosa Parks was fighting.
Those who see government as the solution to social problems may be surprised to learn it was government that created this problem. […]

In today’s Washington Post, Colbert I. King, who I normally pay little attention to for reasons that will become obvious, uses the death of Rosa Parks, some would say cynically so, to attack advocates of originalist interpretations of the Constitution and judicial restraint. As is usual for Mr. King, the logic is somewhat lacking.
The celebration […]

Over at Reason.com, Tim Cavanaugh uncovers the real problem with America’s legal system — runaway juries. As Cavanaugh sees it, the problem with the American tort system isn’t out-of-control lawyers or bad laws, its “idiotic jurors.”
The evidence that’s out there certainly seems to support his claim. Take theVioxx verdict against Merck, for example;

?Whenever Merck was […]

From the Washington Post, comes the news we’ve been waiting for all day.

A federal grand jury today indicted Vice President Cheney’s chief of staff, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, after a two-year investigation into the leak of a CIA agent’s identity but spared — at least for now –President Bush’s top political strategist, Karl Rove.
Libby was […]

JUDGE EDITH HOLLAN JONES
U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit, appointed by Reagan, born 1949 A Texan! Nearly nominated to Souter’s seat byG.H.W. Bush. You’re hoping the son follows through! Jones is considered radioactive by Democrats, which you (and the administration) might consider a plus!
New World Man presents: My favorite candidate for the Supreme Court
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If you have a relatively new cell phone, it most likely has some form of Global Positioning System (GPS) locator technology installed on it. On my LG-4650, there are two settings for the GPS feature — one broadcasts your position to anyone capable of reading it, the other makes it available “only” to 911 services […]

From the Seattle Times, comes this story about the latest application of the McCain-Feingold law and its chilling effect on freedom of speech.

OLYMPIA ? Comments made by radio talk-show hosts this past summer supporting anti-gas-tax Initiative 912 should be considered in-kind political contributions, a Thurston County Superior Court judge reaffirmed Wednesday.Judge Chris Wickham also found […]

Today’s Washington Post reports on the success so far of the so-called E-Rate program, which funded by a “Universal Service Fee” that shows up on your telephone bill and mine, and which is supposedly desigened to help schools and libraries link to the Internet.
A federal program that has doled out more than $10 billion to […]

According to a siren-light worthy headline on Drudge, the New York Times is reporting that Vice President Dick Cheney’s Chief of Staff, Scotter Libby is likely to be indicted tomorrow for making false statements to the grand jury investigating the outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame. Karl Rove will not be indicted, but the grand […]