Nine Supreme Court justices? Why not stick with eight? / The Christian Science Monitor - CSMonitor.com

A quickie history of the Supreme Court. it's a little known fact that the Constitution mentions nothing about the number of justices to be on the court.

Time to Stop the Rush for "Amnesty" Immigration Reform | The Heritage Foundation

In light of the furor over Arizona's attempt to take controls of it's borders, this article on The Heritage Foundation's site is particularly timely. Who would have ever thought that we would live in an age when whether or not enforcing our laws would be a controversial issue? Well, we have arrived at that point, folks, with the left describing illegals as "undocumented", and completely ignoring the fact that by their very presence on American soil, these people are breaking the law. This is not only a national security issue (although that is reason enough for enforcement). This is a question of whether our laws mean anything. The President, and other Democrats, are drastically misreading public sentiment on this issue. This goes back to my theory that liberals always over-reach when they get power. They see potential future voters here, and are willing to turn their backs on legal, law-abiding citizens in order to curry favor with those who are here illegally.

bin Laden "Shocked" by US response after 9/11

If anyone doubts the importance of the U.S. projecting strength, and a willingness to use it, they should read this article fro WTOP in Washington. Osama bin Laden was clearly shocked when the U.S. retaliated for the September 11 attacks. If we had displayed such a willingness to protect our interests beforehand, perhaps the greatest tragedy to strike this country would never have happened. Instead of learning from this, the Obama Administration seems more intent on letting our enemies know we mean them no harm, and want to be their "friends". Most of us know what this stance leads to.

Good Advice from Cnet!

Here's some handy info from Cnet for all of us whose music is hogging all our hard drive:

The Day After

If you're an Obama spin doctor this morning, you're earning your pay. It will be interesting to see the explanations Democrats come up with for losing a Senate seat in Massachusetts! Martha Coakley has been widely criticized for her lackluster campaign, but this is Massachusetts, for God's sake. The Dems considered this seat their birthright, it was "Kennedy's seat" after all. (When you cultivate an entitlement state, it's hard not to embrace that mentality.) Granted, Coakley was as tone-deaf as a politician comes, but with Union bosses twisting arms, and a long and storied tradition of dead people and house pets voting Democrat, she should have been able to mail it in. The Democrat primary is the election there. Unless, of course you're saddled with Barack Obama at the head of the party, presiding over policies too far left for even the most of blue of states. This, I believe, was not so much a referendum on where we are as country, but more where we are headed. More precisely, where the President wants to head us. Liberals almost always over-reach when they gain power, and Democrats (and the media) badly misread the results of 2008 as meaning this country wants to turn left. Hard left. Since then, the Dems have lost elections in New Jersey, Virginia and now, Massachusetts. Two of these (New Jersey and Massachusetts) are Democrat strongholds, and the third (Virginia) we were told, was turning that way. What do they all have in common? President Obama campaigned in all three.

Amazingly, the early word from most Democrats is that they are losing because government health care is not moving fast enough! They believe that they aren't implementing the rest of their agenda as quickly as Americans would like as well. With any luck at all, they will continue this self-delusion.

Obama Beer Bong

Here's a fun new drinking game: The next time President Obama gives a speech, or holds a news conference, or for that matter, talks in his sleep; down a shot, or chug a beer every time he mentions that he is "not responsible for" or that he "inherited" the economic mess we are in. After you wake back up, provided you aren't blind, you'll be all set to check yourself in to a 12 step program. It's hardly presidential to do all this finger-pointing, especially when you have a media more than willing to shield you from any blame, but for some reason the man just can't seem to help himself.

Obama's White House is Falling Down

Great column here from the Canada Free Press. Funny how sometimes you can see things more clearly from the outside looking in...

On that note, an entrepreneur in China was selling T-shirts with everyone's favorite socialist in Mao garb. Again, why can outsiders see this, when we cannot? Of course, this portrait is considered flattering in communist China (and in some quarters of the U.S. no doubt).