Bill O'Reilly is a carnival act!

Last night in responding to a viewer's question (why didn't O'Reilly mention Christ's conversation with the thief on the cross in "Killing Jesus"?), O'Reilly replied "because there's no historical evidence that the conversation happened." He then offers his opinion that it would have been impossible to talk because crucifixion kills by suffocation.
I can see his point--after all there are mounds of historical data supporting the resurrection and, comparatively speaking, being resurrected is oodles more possible than talking while hanging on a cross.
O'Reilly's a carnival act!

What? Obama doesn't follow his own legal advice!

There is a problem with following a by-the-seat-of-your pants approach to constitutional interpretation; the Constitution has no settled meaning. But whether you subscribe to the absurd notion of a "living Constitution" or to the more sensible textual-interpretation method, you ought to at least have some idea what you think the Constitution means. Unfortunately, our president (a  former constitutional law professor or senior lecturer) can't meet this standard.

In a 2008 interview with The Boston Globe, Obama said, "The President [sic] does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation." So, according to the professor/senior lecturer the before a president can "unilaterally authorize a military attack" the country must be faced with "an actual or imminent threat."  

But Obama is prepared to, "authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the [United States]." We know there is no "actual or imminent threat" because Obama says so. On September 9, 2013, he told CNN's Wolf Blitzer, Assad "doesn't have a credible means to threaten the United States." He was even more direct with Fox News's Chris Wallace; telling him, Assad's "threat [is] not direct and imminent to the United States[.]" But he went to Congress anyway despite, in the president's words,  "me believing I have the authority to take, uh, action." (As a matter of grammar our highly educated president should have said, "despite my believing . . . .")

So, where does he get this authority? The Constitution hasn't changed since 2008 when the president lacked this authority. It's not enough to say, "presidents have always claimed this power." Why? Because when Obama snookered citizens into voting for him, he promised to be different than Geo. W. Bush. He was a cut above all the rest!  Obama let his mouth overload his behind when he started tough talk about red-lines and the consequences of crossing them. Obama's problem has been and remains that he thinks he's special, but he's not. And Putin and Assad are about to make a fool of him and this country.

Shame on Columbia University!

Forty-three years ago, the Weather Underground bombed the home of a New York state judge. Here is an article by the judge's son reminding us about this terrorist attacks. Today, a member of this terror group, Kathy Boudin, is a professor at Columbia University's School of Social Work.
According to the university's website, she's been an educator and working for social change since 1964. No mention of her life of crime!
Her crime spree came to an end in the early 80s on a New York thruway, but not before she tricked the police into lowering their weapons so that her bank-robbing cohorts could ambush the police. Her social change resulted in the death of a policeman.  Oh, and before some in her group blew themselves up, they planned to bomb the officers' club at Fort Dix. And Columbia thinks she's worthy of teaching its students. Thanks to Dr. John for the tip about this article.

Liberals should at least try to get some facts before attacking!

As I mentioned earlier, I had a piece in Sunday's The Jackson Sun rebutting another lawyer's attack on the Supreme Court of the United States. Here is the link to my piece.

Read my Op-Ed in Sunday's The Jackson Sun

Two weeks ago, local (Jackson, Tennessee) plaintiff's lawyer Robert Hill wrote an uninformed attack on the Supreme Court of the United States and Justice Scalia. In tomorrow's The Jackson Sun you can read my Op-Ed piece in response to Hill. Here is the link to The Jackson Sun's opinion page.

Here's something worth watching!

The weak-minded Ted Kennedy died and the media lamented the passing of "the Lion of the Senate." If that were true, then I must have had my lions and my hyenas confused. But Robert Bork--an intellectual and man of character dies--and the media practically ignored it.
On Sunday, turn to C-Span's Book TV and watch Judge Easterbrook discussing Judge Bork's Saving Justice: Watergate, the Saturday Night Massacre, and Other Adventures of a Solicitor General. Here are the details.

"A Time for Choosing": Has that time come again?

In October 1964, Ronald Reagan gave a great speech in favor of Barry Goldwater for president. It is a classic!