Justice for the Justice?

Call it Kelo Karma.

Apparently, a company in Supreme Court Justice David Souter's hometown has asked for eminent domain rights to his house in order to construct a hotel called the Lost Liberty Hotel, complete with a museum to honor those rights we've lost in the past 50 years. Obviously in response to the Kelo decision, Free Star Media LLC has petitioned the timy town to kick the Justice from his own home so that they can erect a larger tax boon for the town for the "public good". Based off of the recent ruling in which Souter wrote the ruling opinion, it will only take three of the five sitting alderman to vote in favor of the move to kick the Justice from his own land.

Sometimes, life can be humorous, ironic and sad at the same time.

A Chance for W

Not exactly the Supreme Court Justice that had been expected, but an opening is there nonetheless.

With the departure of Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, the "moderate" of the Court, President Bush now has an opportunity to put the Supreme Court back in order. The often perplexing O'Connor is painted as a moderate only because her rulings were so inconsistent. In recent years, however, she helped Bader Ginsberg and the more leftist members of the court in their inexorable movement away from the long-standing role of the Court as interpreter of the law to maker of laws.

Look at just this year's rulings that have come down from the 9 in black and you have a hard time seeing where they reflect the Founder's ideas of an "impartial an unbiased referee. This Court has voted to allow the seizure of personal property not for the public good in terms of new public works, but for the enrichment of government coffers by taking from one private citizen to give to another - one who will give more taxes to said government.

They've also made rulings based on the LAWS OF OTHER LANDS. Let me repeat that - they decided cases based not off of the lands of this freely elected society, but from the laws of other countries in which we have no say. I believe that qualifies as a form of taxation without representation and if I'm not mistaken, we fought a war and created a new country on such grounds.

In the latest rulings to come down, the court has both said religion (excuse me, Judeo-Christian religion) has a place and does not have a place in our public sites. Huh? O'Connor was the swing on both sides of the argument. Apparently, to be "moderate" in today's public service is to talk from both sides of one's mouth simultaneously. For more on this, see "John McCain".

Let us hope that Bush doesn't try to appease the powers on the left that want to continue this abuse of powers by submitting another O'Connor to the court. I don't care if she is replaced by a woman, man, black, white or hispanic. All that matters is that we get a nominee who can help return this Court to its senses and purpose.

We don't need another moderate. Let's hope W gets this one right.

Yahoo! News - Another example of media bias

Has anyone else noticed that Yahoo! News has toppled even further towards the left?

Check out the feeds and highlighted "News" suppliers. The LA Times and NY Times are reknowned for their unapologetic socialist slant they put on the news, but I give Yahoo a pass on them. They represent the two largest (well, and "bluest") cities in the country, do actually produce a subscription paper and were once considered real news sources - so, you let those go. But THE NATION? The Huffingtonpost? (yes, that's Arianna Huffington - queen of the limousine liberal set) Yahoo! honestly thinks these are suitable news sources?

It appears to be only a matter of time before Yahoo! News starts pulling items from Pravda or the personal blog of Jacques Chirac and reporting them as true stories. Here's news for the editors of Yahoo! News - the internet has created an opportunity for people to more easily discover agendas and bias...and yours is showing.