Justice Scalia, whose views concerning the High Court's rampant activism are well-known, and well-expressed, provides a keenly reasoned and documented refutation of the utterly un-judicial rationalizations and goal-oriented reasoning of the majority's latest "nail-in-the-coffin" of the Freedom of Religion in this country.

You can access or download the complete opinion in pdf format by clicking on the caption or the link, above.  The must-read, however, is Scalia's dissent.  In it, Scalia lays bare the hypocrisy of the Liberal Wing of the Court, and its drive for social engineering, certainly far better than I am able.

---> Read Scalia's Dissent

The High Court, acting almost entirely out of whole cloth over the past several decades, has moved close and closer to the outright prohibition of any religious expression in public spaces, in the name of a doctrine which is found nowhere in the words of the Constitution, and nowhere in the hearts, minds or fantasies of the men who crafted the document.  This is another sad, sad day in the history of the United States, and of its increasingly beleaguered  Constitution.  (More to come once I've had the time to digest these tragic opinions. . .and let my stomach settle a bit.)

At issue in the case of Kelo v. New London was the condemnation of private homes for the purpose of transferring the land to a private developer for commercial, yet private development.  (continued . . .)

About the Author: The author of The Truth About Hillary, Edward Klein, is also the author of other bestselling celebrity biographies, including The Kennedy Curse and Farewell, Jackie, as well as several other New York Times bestsellers.  Contrary to the ongoing smear campaign being waged by furious Hillary herself and her people, Ed Klein is no Republican Party shill, nor right wing activist or conservative journalist.  He is, in fact, the former foreign editor of Newsweek and former Editor-in-Chief of no less than The New York Times Magazine, itself the pre-eminent left-wing media machine of the Democratic Party.  Klein is also a frequent contributor to Vanity Fair and Parade magazines.  Hillary is going to have a very hard time casting Klein as simply some right-wing kook out for her blood.

Remember Bill Burkett's account of how he got his sleazy little paws on the phony-baloney Bush National Guard documents?  He claimed that he was given the documents from a still-unnamed source at a secret meeting, documents which were supposed to have been originally from Jerry Killian's file, but that he took the documents, made photocopies of them, and then destroyed the originals.  Well, Michael Smith has gone and done a Bill Burkett.  Smith claims to have obtained the eight highly-secret memos from a source whose identity, understandably, he had to protect.  So, a-la-Bill Burkett, not only did Smith "copy" the documents, he entirely re-typed the documents, and then destroyed the originals to further hide the identity of the source.  (continued . . .)

There is only one thing missing from Jill Zuckman's fawning performance at the feet of her and the Left's present pinnacle of Bush-hating/America-hating idolatry--Dick Durbin--and that is a stained blue dress.  As Tuesday's slander by Dick Durbin led into Wednesday's demands for apologies, which led into Thursday's digging-in, Friday brought with it a full-out Democratic embrace of Durbin's heinous attack on this country, its military, and those who serve.  While it appeared, frankly, that all sides were fairly shocked and amazed at the vile and disgusting hatred that Durbin spewed earlier this week, the Senator and the Hate America First Party had two choices: One, step back from the remarks, explain what you really meant to say, and sincerely and with heart and soul, beg forgiveness for the harm your words have caused.  Second, dig in your heels, embrace Durbin's attacks, and blame the other side for making Durbin say what he said.  The Left, of course, chose the second, thoroughly dishonorable path.  (continued . . .)

If you'd like to chime in, please consider giving one of these idiots a call at their Senatorial offices, and let them know how you feel.  For myself, I am four square behind Dickie Durbin continuing to say precisely what he has been saying.  It will only continue the Democratic spiral into irrelevance and political oblivion, particularly if the rest of his colleagues stand quietly behind him.

Some of the commonsense reforms include barring nations who violate the human rights of their citizens from serving on the U.N.'s Human Rights Commission, as has occurred with such nations as Cuba and Syria.  Now the Senate has to get on the stick and come up with its own version to make this a reality.

In a brief item today, United Press International is reporting that a "former Bush team member" has come to the conclusion that the only acceptable "scientific" explanation for the collapse of the twin towers of the World Trade Center and adjacent No. 7, is a "controlled demolition"...at least that is what is being claimed by Morgan Reynolds, President Bush's former Department of Labor chief economist.  To bolster Reynolds' scientific credentials (what scientific credentials?), the author of the unattributed UPI piece notes that Reynolds had also been director of the Criminal Justice Center at the National Center for Policy Analysis in Dallas, and that he is now a professor emeritus at Texas A&M University. (continued . . .)

What has been glaringly absent during the several weeks of coverage leading up to the much-anticipated non-binding U.S. Senate resolution "apologizing" for more than a century's failure to pass anti-lynching legislation, is one simple, all-too-easy-to-forget, bit of "trivia": Those southern Senators who spent a century or so filibustering the legislation to death were actually Democratic Senators.  Rely upon the coverage by the Olde Media, though, and you'll never know it. 

In her report of the Senate's voice vote approving the resolution of apology, Ana Radelat of Gannett finds the fact that the Senators who defeated the legislation for some time were Democrats is not relevant to the story.  As for the culpable Senators who prevented anti-lynching legislation from coming to a vote (sound familiar?), Ms. Radelat refers to them only as "powerful Southern lawmakers."  (continued . . .)

In a story which purportedly addresses the homage paid by DNC Chairman Howard Dean to a conference being held in Chicago by Jesse Jackson's Rainbow/PUSH concerning amendments being sought to the Voting Rights Act.  The amendments sought would take the extraordinary step of wresting from the states the right to conduct their own elections, under the pretense that African Americans and minorities will lose the right to vote if the feds are not in charge.  Included in the debate is the question of whether to extend the life of the legislation itself.  Democrats say, in keeping with the desire to entirely federalize voting across the nation, that without the Act, minorities and African-Americans are doomed to see their Constitutional right to vote disappear.  Not everyone agrees with this prognostication of doom.  Not everyone agrees that minorities are helpless without the omnipresent teat of mother government to suckle for their ability to engage in just about any daily activity.  But be all that as it may. (continued . . .)