Wise Latina Watch

Sotomayor not only made the pro-racist decision in Ricci, but may have tried to make the decision disappear.

[B]y electing on Feb. 15, 2008, to dispose of the case by a cursory, unsigned summary order, Judges Sotomayor, Rosemary Pooler and Robert Sack avoided circulating the decision in a way likely to bring it to the attention of other 2nd Circuit judges, including the six who later voted to rehear the case.
And if the Ricci case — which ended up producing one of the Supreme Court’s most important race decisions in many years — had not come to the attention of those six judges, it would have been an unlikely candidate for Supreme Court review. The justices almost never review summary orders, which represent the unanimous judgment of three appellate judges that the case in question presents no important issues.

Maybe it’s “wise” as in “wise guys”.

Are You Ready for the Future?

Because I’m not sure I am.

War on Science?

I’ve often heard the Left’s meme about the Bush Administration’s “War on Science”, but never any evidence for it. It now appears that the Messiah’s new science czar, John Holdren, is not going to start any war on science. Rather, he’ll start a science war on us.

Among Holdren’s bright ideas as of 1977:

• Women could be forced to abort their pregnancies, whether they wanted to or not;
• The population at large could be sterilized by infertility drugs intentionally put into the nation’s drinking water or in food;
• Single mothers and teen mothers should have their babies seized from them against their will and given away to other couples to raise;
• People who “contribute to social deterioration” (i.e. undesirables) “can be required by law to exercise reproductive responsibility” — in other words, be compelled to have abortions or be sterilized.
• A transnational “Planetary Regime” should assume control of the global economy and also dictate the most intimate details of Americans’ lives — using an armed international police force.

You might point out that this was a long time ago. Fine, but should anybody who held such violent ideas, and who was so spectacularly wrong about “overpopulation” be in charge of evaluating the science on, say, anthropogenic global warming?

Of course, he’d get along fine with Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who recently said:

“Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don’t want to have too many of.”

Why do I get the feeling that I might be one of those populations?

Child Abuse

The web site that supposedly hosts this video is “under construction” so here’s a LiveLeak link to that wonderful Hamas kiddie show where, in this episode, the children of a suicide bomber watch a re-enactment of her attack.

If you need any further evidence that Islamic Jihad is a sick, vile, putrid, hateful and vicious culture, then you’re just not paying attention.

Siding With the Thugs

The sanctimonious buffoon in the Oval Office is showing all the disrespect for the rule of law and respect for thuggish dictators that one might expect from, say, a garden-variety Chicago machine politician. Andy McCarthy has the goods:

In the Los Angeles Times today, my friend and former colleague Miguel Estrada, one of the nation’s best legal minds, provides the definitive explanation of why the ouster of aspiring dictator Manuel Zelaya was not a “coup,” as the Obama administration mind-bogglingly claims.  In fact, the removal of Zelaya from office was compelled by the Constitution of Honduras.  That is, it represents, through and through, the rule of law the Obama administration would rather pay lip-service to than heed.  As Miguel explains, the only dubious aspect of the episode is Zelaya’s transfer to Costa Rica when, as a matter of law, he should have been arrested and tried for treason (power grabs of the type Zelaya attempted, Miguel notes, are officially defined as treason under Article 4 of the Honduras Constitution).

Bottom line: Hugo Chavez wants Zelaya in, the law of Honduras says Zelaya must be out; Obama sided with Chavez.

And The One who said he’d raise the world’s opinion of us still has some things to learn from the French.