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Case for Keisler

January 06, 2009 15:43

I know it's probably like spitting into the wind, but here I make the case for Obama to renominated Peter Keisler: http://www.dcexaminer.com/opinion/columns/QuinHillyer/Quin-essential_cas... Then again, the Bush administration's utter failure to use its Roger Gregory olive branch to better PR...

Judge Griffin Bell, RIP

January 05, 2009 15:43

Griffin Bell was a truly great man, and he will be dearly missed by his family and friends. I was fortunate enough to meet and interview Judge Bell while working on an essay about his tenure on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, which you can read here. I cannot even begin to describe what a...

Welcome Back Open Thread

December 19, 2008 19:43

We were off-line for a while. So this is the Welcome Back Open Thread. All yours. . .

Weekend Open Thread

December 05, 2008 14:25

All yours...

Open Thread

November 21, 2008 21:43

Fire away.

Site Will Continue! Yea!

November 17, 2008 16:10

I have been reliably informed by Erick Erickson, major domo of ConfirmThem's excellent parent site, RedState, that this site will indeed continue as a live site. yea! Hats off to Erick. And hats off to all you readers who keep the conversation lively and erudite. You are the real stars of this...

Keep This Site Going!

November 12, 2008 16:44

To Andrew, and to the proprietors at Red State: I vote to keep this site going. Even its name should stay the same, as a sort of ironic inside joke reminding everybody that we had to work this hard just to get qualified judges to receive semi-fair consideration. (If the name is just TOO weird, then...

A Confirmthem Blogger Goes on Sabbatical

November 05, 2008 05:36

Here's a link to Senator McCain's very gracious and moving concession speech. He said: "I call on all Americans, as I have often in this campaign, to not despair of our present difficulties, but to believe, always, in the promise and greatness of America, because nothing is inevitable here." The...

Confirmthem May Soon Get Another Lease on Life --- Or Not

November 01, 2008 20:18

Well, depending upon what happens on Tuesday, it appears that confirmthem may be going into some very deep hibernation pretty soon. There’s an outside chance that that will not happen, but I wouldn’t be placing any bets at this point. MAKE SURE YOU VOTE ON TUESDAY! I have been very disappointed in...

Scary Obama Picks

October 30, 2008 03:25

An article in November’s ABA Journal, “The Lawyers Who May Run America,” names Harvard Law Professor and Anita Hill counsel Charles Ogletree as the most likely Obama pick to head DOJ’s civil rights division. Hans Bader of the Competitive Enterprise Institute explains why that prospect should concer...