In this issue:
1. Mr.
Roberts, Time for Your Close-Up
2. Better Late
Than Nuked
3. EBay, Holding
on Line One
4. Quick
Hits
5. New at Reason
Online - Fabled Danger?
6. News and
Events
1. Mr. Roberts, Time for Your Close-Up
Hard to tell which is scarier, the bloviating windbags on the Senate Judiciary Committee or that John Roberts can sit in front of them for more than five seconds and not throw a chair at the bunch. His supernatural, faintly un-American, calm should be a disqualifying attribute.
But since it is not, we are left to parse the wisdom of the likes of Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) where we find the Democrats' sing-songy theme: consensus, compromise, mainstream. Feinstein also appointed herself Guardian Protector of half the population.
"As the only woman on the Committee, I believe I have an additional role in evaluating nominees for the Supreme Court. This entails representing the views and concerns of American women throughout this process," she said in her opening statement.
Oh happy day.
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The world at large has finally caught up to the fact that the United States is radically reshaping its nuclear war-fighting doctrine to allow for preemptive use of nukes against states that are attempting to develop their own nuclear arsenal. These changes would obviously be of great interest to states like Iran and North Korea, who might be on the receiving end of nuclear bunker-buster as a result.
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