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“On, but not in” seems to be the phrase of the moment on the Court’s split rulings related to the presence of the 10 Commandments on government property. Background at How Appealing–links to oral arguments transcripts in both the Texas and Kentucky cases. Alliance Defense Fund’s assessment is that the status quo has been maintained. [...]

The Supremes uphold the property rights of cable companies. An ISP named Brand X had argued that it should be allowed to use infrastructure that the cable companies had built. In a bit of editorializing, AP reports that the decision “will limit competition and consumers’ choices.” In fact, the decision will encourage cable companies to [...]

Via Bloomberg News: The U.S. Supreme Court rejected appeals by reporters for the New York Times and Time magazine who face jail for refusing to disclose their sources to a prosecutor investigating the leak of a CIA operative’s identity. The justices in Washington turned down arguments by New York Times reporter Judith Miller and Time [...]

The SCOTUS struck a big blow for digital copyright protections this morning. Associated Press reports: Internet file-sharing services will be held responsible if they intend for their customers to use software primarily to swap songs and movies illegally, the Supreme Court ruled Monday, rejecting warnings that the lawsuits will stunt growth of cool tech gadgets [...]

Hot day ahead for the Supreme Court as it ends its term; hands down some highly anticipated rulings (including a Ten Commandments case and the Cooper/Miller confidential sources appeal); and prepares for a likely resignation. Hugh Hewitt and Bill Kristol had dueling predictions last week. Hugh sez Rehnquist; Kristol sez O’Connor. We’ll know soon enough. [...]

I promised my daughter this Care Bear cake for her birthday party later today, so I will be mixing a truckload of buttercream icing this afternoon and attempting cake decorating for the first time. Will post a photo if it doesn’t turn out to be a total disaster. (Update: Voila!) Meantime, some good Sunday afternoon [...]

Will Franklin has put together a link-filled photo album of Rabid Donkeys on the Loose.

I’ve written before on the “armor gap” and the dedicated volunteers at Soldiers’ Angels who continue to raise money to buy kevlar blankets for the troops. The Bush administration is dealing with the problem, slowly, but there’s always room for help. The angels have put out a new call for donations. Please check out their [...]

Am scheduled to appear on Fox News Live around 12:20pm today to talk border security/immigration. Video here. Related: – Fox News special on American Gangs–Ties to Terror? – WND report, “Al-Jazeera to look at open U.S. border“

***See the update below. Arianna responds…*** Jeff Quinton sends word that the Huffington Post is reporting from Vail, Colo., on Dick Cheney’s alleged hospitalization for heart problems. I wouldn’t have linked directly to the HuffPuffers, but after glancing at the cesspool in the comments section, I figured you’d be interested. Here’s a sample: Hasn’t he [...]

Scheduled to appear on FOX News Live at around 2:40 pm eastern time for a “lightning round” on Aruba, Rove, and Oprah. Video at The Political Teen. Trey Jackson has some headline fun.

The (right side of the) blogosphere’s response to yesterday’s SCOTUS ruling on Kelo v. New London has been stunning. And heartening. Eminent domain isn’t usually the first thing that comes to mind when one thinks “blogswarm.” But the fierce reaction to the decision shows that core economic liberty issues can still unite disparate factions of [...]

Morgan Spurlock, director/producer of the smash hit “Super Size Me,” is coming out with a new documentary/reality TV show called “30 Days.” Debbie Schlussel, who was asked to appear on the show, says the outcome of the show was decided before production began: A show summary sent to me before taping said: “This process aims [...]

Well, well, well. The dogged Hiawatha Bray, MSM journalist/blogger, sent word last night that Newspaper Guild president/military slanderer Linda Foley, has changed her tune. Check out her Durbinizing non-apology apology here. Meanwhile, Media Slander, which, like Bray, has relentlessly kept on Foley, notices that the newspaper union folks have taken a keen interest in its [...]

Baby Torres, whose mom, Susan, suffered a stroke at 17 weeks pregnant and is in a coma, is alive and kicking. The Arlington (Va.) Catholic Herald reports: It has been nearly eight weeks since Susan Torres (pictured at right with her oldest son) was rushed to the hospital after she suffered a stroke caused by [...]

Can the New York Times–yes, the New York Times–make this any clearer to the Democratic tinfoil hat-wearers who cling to “Ohio was stolen” election conspiracy: In Ohio Vote, Woes, Yes, Fraud, No David Limbaugh spells it out further: Black voter suppression? No. Exploitation? Yes. Meanwhile, most of the MSM are ignoring the story of Iranian [...]

CPT Charles “Chuck” Ziegenfuss, the milblogger wounded by an IED in Iraq, is scheduled to arrive at Walter Reed this evening. Cpt. Ziegenfuss’s wife reports: There is one man (other than God Himself) in particular who saved Chuck’s life. CPT Jason Spencer, Chuck’s XO. Chuck said to me, “Jason saved my life. Don’t ever let [...]

Blogger Billy Yates sends along today’s neologism: Durbinize, verb. 1. To make, either explicitly or implicitly, a moral, political, or factual equivalence between two situations which in reality have little or nothing in common. (After U. S. Senator Richard Durbin (D, ILL) who compared the alleged abusive treatment of a terrorist detainee held at Guantanamo [...]

Ever wonder what it takes to get onto the New York Times op-ed page? Ever wonder what it takes to get into the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard? Read this ridiculous piece of tripe on the Times op-ed page from KSG/Harvard student Fatina Abdrabboh. Shorter Fatina Abdrabboh: I’m Muslim. I’m paranoid. It’s all Bush’s [...]

The tooth fairy makes her first appearance at the Patterico residence. And don’t miss Patterico’s unbeatable father’s day gift.

Check this out: US Marines have found manuals on taking hostages and decapitation during a raid on a guerrilla hideout in the Iraqi village of Karabla, near the town of Qaim, close to the Syrian border. The Arab newspaper Al-Sharq al-Awsat reports that in the hideaway the troops also found several hostages who were being [...]

From Karl Rove, quoted in today’s NY Times: Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 in the attacks and prepared for war; liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers. Right. On. Democrats are now calling on Rove to apologize. Apologize? For what? [...]

The Supreme Court’s decision in the New London eminent domain case is in, and it’s a devastating blow against homeowners and private property rights: A divided Supreme Court ruled Thursday that local governments may seize people’s homes and businesses against their will for private development in a decision anxiously awaited in communities where economic growth [...]

Oh, my. Check out this thread in the fever swamps of the Democratic Underground. It’s titled, “Al Gore is still president.” Here’s an excerpt from one commenter. This is not a parody: …sometimes I go away to my happy place where al gore is president. Can you just imagine the world right now? the way [...]

The Chicago Tribune’s Jill Zuckman pokes at the entrails. Hugh Hewitt analyzes The Durbin Effect: The willingness to slander the servicemen and women responsible for the custody and interrogation of the detainees at Gitmo and around the globe did not begin with Durbin and it will not end with Pelosi. True that. Kevin at MediaSlander [...]

The battle over Ground Zero continues, and the public relations master for the Blame America side is losing his cool. – Check out this must-see segment from the O’Reilly Factor Tuesday night in which Fox & Friends co-host Brian Kilmeade describes an off-air confrontation between 9/11 family member Debra Burlingame–who blew the whistle on the [...]

Three curious stories of illegal alien pilots just wandering around Mexico and the U.S.: 1) From AP last week: A day after he was expelled from Mexico, a man who once ran a Southern California aerospace company was indicted for allegedly exporting military jet parts in violation of the federal Arms Export Control Act. Arif [...]

Cheat Seeking Missiles highlights warped Democrat priorities.

Townhall.com’s Tim Chapman reports: Senator Daniel Akaka (D-HI) has introduced a bill called the Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act of 2005, S.147. Akaka wants to extend the government’s policy of self-governance and self-determination to Native Hawaiians. He, and fellow Hawaiian Senator Inouye intend to do this by creating a race-based and racially separate government for [...]

I’ll let the photos speak: