Depressing email.

I received an email today that began: Usually don't read you, since I'm rather liberal (by today's attenuated standards anyway) and have …

"The State of the Union is strong."

You knew he'd say that, and he did. There's John Roberts, chatting and laughing with Condoleezza Rice. On his other side is Clarence Thomas, …

"For Americans, and perhaps Anglo-Saxons generally, law is a lowest common denominator of civic morality."

"It’s what we expect everyone to do all the time, and if a law is being widely disobeyed, for us that’s a crisis – we either want to repeal the …

"People with Down syndrome are pure in heart and spirit."

Did you know that there is an especially high demand to adopt children with Down syndrome? There are long waiting lists to get such a child. When I …

The kind of follow-up story that people tend not to notice.

If you're one of those people who got riled up about the state judge who (temporarily) prevented a 13-year-old girl from getting the abortion sh…

"People don't understand what happens to you when you become a judge. When you take that oath, you are transformed."

The NYT has this news article on yesterday's meeting between Samuel Alito and Senator Arlen Spector: The White House and Mr. Specter hastily arr…

Who is this Obamacare critic that Donald Trump has picked as Secretary of Health and Human Services?

Tom Price is an orthopedic surgeon who has been a member of Congress for 6 terms. He isn't just a critic of Obamacare. He's been offering de…

What is the truth about the Susan G. Komen foundation and Planned Parenthood?

There's a huge lump of politics, rhetoric, emotion, and ideology here — and here — and I'm not ready to make a diagnosis.

Seriously, what science questions should we want our political candidates to answer?

Last night, we were talking about David Harsanyi's interesting push back to those who performed a freakout on the occasion of Scott Walker'…

"If people with Down syndrome ruled the world."

From the National Association for Down Syndrome: Affection, hugging and caring for others would make a big comeback.... All people would be encourage…

Let's take a closer look at Wikipedia's "threat" to delete its article on the anti-abortion film "Gosnell."

I'm seeing this Instapundit post, put up last night at 2:24 a.m, "YET MORE LIBERAL TOLERANCE: Now Wikipedia Is Threatening ‘Gosnell’ Film.&…

"Alabama woman loses unborn child after being shot, gets arrested; shooter goes free."

Alabama.com reports. Though [Marshae Jones, 27] didn’t fire the shots that killed her unborn baby girl, authorities say she initiated the dispute tha…

"A Closer Look at ‘Nonhuman Personhood’ and Animal Welfare."

"Nonhuman Personhood." Not to be confused with human nonpersonhood .

Suing your own abortionist for making you witness the murder of your accidentally delivered child.

How can the mother who sought the death of her unborn child recover damages for seeing the death acted out in front of her? "The baby writhed a…

Jerry Seinfeld almost critiques liberal thought.

At one point in this comic conversation with Ricky Gervais (the new episode of "Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee"). This interchange comes…

"Fetal Heartbeat Laws Gain Momentum."

"Taking the judicial Fifth" and the Bork cautionary tale.

It's been so long since we've had a new Supreme Court nominee that you may have forgotten what the Senate Judiciary hearings are like. Or you…

"Many people will express sympathy, but you don’t want or need that, because Trig will be a joy."

Here 's the big NYT story -- pre-touted on Drudge -- about Sarah Palin and her baby: No one has ever tried to combine presidential politics and m…

Roberts and reasoning.

Here 's an interesting assessment, by Harvard lawprof William Stuntz, of Bush's Supreme Court nominee. (That link will work for nonsubscriber…

The NYT editorial before the Alito hearings... and what to expect to read after the hearings.

Here 's the NYT editorial about Samuel Alito, whose confirmation hearings begin tomorrow. It doesn't oppose him, but highlights areas of con…