Q: How Much Does It Cost to be a Federal Judge in Rhode Island? A: About $700,000
Ed Whelan flags a report that trial lawyer John J. McConnell, who was nominated by the president to a district judgeship in Rhode Island, donated nearly $700,000 in the past 20 years to various Democrats. Whelan writes that McConnell's "poor rating" by the ABA "ought to set off alarm bells."
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Ad Wars: Marco Rubio’s First Ad Calls Washington Broken, Warns of Freedom Lost
The Florida Republican, now leading primary challenger and current governor Charlie Crist by 32 in one poll, released his first TV ad today. He sounded a common theme, saying "Washington is broken." Unlike Obama, he believes it's broken because it can't stop spending money, not because it can't "come together" to spend even greater gobs [...]
Dahlkemper Also a "No" Without Stupak Amendment
Via Jay Cost, Pennsylvania Democrat Kathy Dahlkemper will switch her vote from "yes" to "no" on health care because of the Senate bill's provisions to spend taxpayer money on abortions:
While Mrs. Dahlkemper campaigned as a supporter of health care reform and made an impassioned plea on the House floor in July, citing access as the [...]
McDonald v. City of Chicago
Two years ago, the Supreme Court heard the hotly controversial Heller case, in which it ultimately recognized a personal right to keep and bear arms under the Second Amendment. That case, which pertained only to federal (and District of Columbia) gun regulations, not state or other local gun regulations, sharply divided activists along partisan lines.
The Court is now [...]
You Don’t Have to be Jewish to Love the Jewish Review of Books!
THE WEEKLY STANDARD is happy to welcome a new kid on the magazine block–especially because he (she?) is smart, engaging and attractive. So we welcome the Jewish Review of Books–a new print and web publication for serious readers with Jewish interests, in which writers and scholars praise, criticize and analyze new (and some old) [...]
2010 and 1994, Cont.
Yesterday, I noted that the media are quickly catching on to the fact that there's a chance, however small, that Congress may change hands in November. This wasn't the case in 1994 — back then, folks didn't feel the first tremors of the coming political earthquake until the summertime, and those who did tended to [...]
